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||1811: Isaac Singer born ... inventor, actor, and businessman. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of what became one of the first American multi-national businesses, the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Pic. | ||1811: Isaac Singer born ... inventor, actor, and businessman. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of what became one of the first American multi-national businesses, the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Pic. | ||
File:Golding Bird.jpg|link=Golding Bird (nonfiction)|1854: Physician [[Golding Bird (nonfiction)|Golding Bird]] dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity. | File:Golding Bird.jpg|link=Golding Bird (nonfiction)|1854: Physician [[Golding Bird (nonfiction)|Golding Bird]] dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity. | ||
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||1932: Sylvia Plath born ... poet, novelist, and short story writer. | ||1932: Sylvia Plath born ... poet, novelist, and short story writer. | ||
||1941: Ernest Everett Just dies ... biologist, academic and science writer. Just's primary legacy is his recognition of the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development of organisms. In his work within marine biology, cytology and parthenogenesis, he advocated the study of whole cells under normal conditions, rather than simply breaking them apart in a laboratory setting. Pic. | ||1941: Ernest Everett Just dies ... biologist, academic and science writer. Just's primary legacy is his recognition of the fundamental role of the cell surface in the development of organisms. In his work within marine biology, cytology and parthenogenesis, he advocated the study of whole cells under normal conditions, rather than simply breaking them apart in a laboratory setting. Pic. | ||
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||1985: Thomas Townsend Brown born ... physicist and engineer, ionic propulsion. Pic search. | ||1985: Thomas Townsend Brown born ... physicist and engineer, ionic propulsion. Pic search. | ||
||1992: David Joseph Bohm dies ... scientist who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind. Bohm advanced the view that quantum physics meant that the old Cartesian model of reality – that there are two kinds of substance, the mental and the physical, that somehow interact – was too limited. To complement it, he developed a mathematical and physical theory of "implicate" and "explicate" order. He also believed that the brain, at the cellular level, works according to the mathematics of some quantum effects, and postulated that thought is distributed and non-localised just as quantum entities are. | ||1992: David Joseph Bohm dies ... scientist who has been described as one of the most significant theoretical physicists of the 20th century and who contributed unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, neuropsychology and the philosophy of mind. Bohm advanced the view that quantum physics meant that the old Cartesian model of reality – that there are two kinds of substance, the mental and the physical, that somehow interact – was too limited. To complement it, he developed a mathematical and physical theory of "implicate" and "explicate" order. He also believed that the brain, at the cellular level, works according to the mathematics of some quantum effects, and postulated that thought is distributed and non-localised just as quantum entities are. | ||
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||1999: Robert Mills dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search. | ||1999: Robert Mills dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search. | ||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' observes a minute of silence in memory of [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]], which was switched off forty-five years ago. | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' observes a minute of silence in memory of [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]], which was switched off forty-five years ago. | ||
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1654: Blaise Pascal writes to Pierre de Fermat, praising him for his solution to the Problem of the Points, about which they had exchanged seven previous letters.
1675: Mathematician and academic Gilles de Roberval dies. He published a system of the universe in which he supports the Copernican heliocentric system and attributes a mutual attraction to all particles of matter.
1678: Mathematician Pierre Raymond de Montmort born. He will write Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, an influential book about probability and games of chance which will introduce the combinatorial study of derangements.
1854: Physician Golding Bird dies. He pioneered the medical use of electricity.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a minute of silence in memory of Mariner 9, which was switched off forty-five years ago.
