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||1886: Astronomer Robert Julius Trumpler born. He will observe that the brightness of the more distant open clusters is lower than expected, and the stars appear more red, a phenomenon caused by interstellar dust absorbing interstellar light. Pic. | ||1886: Astronomer Robert Julius Trumpler born. He will observe that the brightness of the more distant open clusters is lower than expected, and the stars appear more red, a phenomenon caused by interstellar dust absorbing interstellar light. Pic. | ||
||1901: Rudolph Koenig dies ... physicist and academic. He was a pioneer of acoustical physics and engineering; his Koenig sound analyzer revolutionized musical and scientific worlds by demonstrated visually that musical notes and voices were in fact made up of simple sounds. Pic. | ||1901: Rudolph Koenig dies ... physicist and academic. He was a pioneer of acoustical physics and engineering; his Koenig sound analyzer revolutionized musical and scientific worlds by demonstrated visually that musical notes and voices were in fact made up of simple sounds. Pic. | ||
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||1927: Svante Arrhenius born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1927: Svante Arrhenius born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1933: John Gurdon born ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. (Alive October 2020.) | ||1933: John Gurdon born ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. (Alive October 2020.) | ||
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||1962: Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev dies ... mathematician and author. Pic. | ||1962: Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev dies ... mathematician and author. Pic. | ||
||1967: Hans Reissner dies ... aeronautical engineer whose avocation was mathematical physics. He solved Einstein's equation for the metric of a charged point mass. His Reissner–Nordström metric demonstrated that an electron has a naked singularity rather that an event horizon. Pic. | ||1967: Hans Reissner dies ... aeronautical engineer whose avocation was mathematical physics. He solved Einstein's equation for the metric of a charged point mass. His Reissner–Nordström metric demonstrated that an electron has a naked singularity rather that an event horizon. Pic. | ||
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||2013: Abraham Nemeth dies ... mathematician, academic, and inventor. Nemeth was blind, and was known for developing a system for blind people to read and write mathematics. Pic search. | ||2013: Abraham Nemeth dies ... mathematician, academic, and inventor. Nemeth was blind, and was known for developing a system for blind people to read and write mathematics. Pic search. | ||
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1588: Philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.
1667: Mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton becomes a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had earned his bachelor's degree in 1665 and then spent two years at home in Lincolnshire inventing much of differential and integral calculus while Cambridge was closed due to plague.
1853: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect now known as eddy current.
1925: John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
1955: ENIAC retired. After disassembly, parts of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first general purpose electronic computer, were shipped to the Smithsonian for display.
2006: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).