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||1926: Joachim Nitsche born ... mathematician and academic. Image search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joachim+Nitsche | ||1926: Joachim Nitsche born ... mathematician and academic. Image search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joachim+Nitsche | ||
File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1948: Archaeologist and spy [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death. | File:Sylvanus Morley.jpg|link=Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|1948: Archaeologist and spy [[Sylvanus Morley (nonfiction)|Sylvanus Morley]] dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death. | ||
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||1998: Swissair Flight 111 crash: ... crashed into the Atlantic Ocean ... Two paintings, including Le Peintre (The Painter) by Pablo Picasso, were on board the aircraft and were destroyed in the accident. | ||1998: Swissair Flight 111 crash: ... crashed into the Atlantic Ocean ... Two paintings, including Le Peintre (The Painter) by Pablo Picasso, were on board the aircraft and were destroyed in the accident. | ||
||2002: Sheila May Edmonds dies ... mathematician. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sheila+May+Edmonds | ||2002: Sheila May Edmonds dies ... mathematician. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sheila+May+Edmonds | ||
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||2011: Herbert Mataré dies ... physicist and academic ... the focus of his research was the field of semiconductor research. His best-known work is the first functional "European" transistor, which he developed and patented together with Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, at the same time and independently from the Bell Labs engineers. Pic. | ||2011: Herbert Mataré dies ... physicist and academic ... the focus of his research was the field of semiconductor research. His best-known work is the first functional "European" transistor, which he developed and patented together with Heinrich Welker in the vicinity of Paris in 1948, at the same time and independently from the Bell Labs engineers. Pic. | ||
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1768: French mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux dies. He made a living manufacturing sundials.
1808: Carl Friedrich Gauss writes Wolfgang Bolyai: "It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment."
1865: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton dies. He made important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.
1948: Archaeologist and spy Sylvanus Morley dies. He conducted espionage in Mexico on behalf of the United States during World War I; the scope of these activities only came to light well after his death.
