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| ||Johannes (or Jean) Sturm, Latinized as Ioannes Sturmius (d. 3 March 1589) was a German-French educator, influential in the design of the Gymnasium system of secondary education. | | File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1845: Mathematician and philosopher '''[[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]]''' born. He will invent [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry. |
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| ||Valentin Naboth (d. March 1593), known by the latinized name Valentinus Nabodus, was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. Book cover. | | File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1847: Engineer, inventor, and academic '''[[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]]''' born. He will patent the telephone in 1876. |
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| ||Robert Hooke FRS (d. 3 March 1703) was an English natural philosopher, architect and polymath. | | File:Minnesota Quaternary geologic map.jpg|link=Minnesota (nonfiction)|1849 – The Territory of '''[[Minnesota (nonfiction)|Minnesota]]''' was created. |
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| ||Pierre Prévost (b. 3 March 1751) was a Genevan philosopher and physicist. In 1791 he explained Pictet's experiment by arguing that all bodies radiate heat, no matter how hot or cold they are. Pic. | | File:Emil Artin.jpg|link=Emil Artin (nonfiction)|1898: Mathematician '''[[Emil Artin (nonfiction)|Emil Artin]]''' born. He will work on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields. |
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| ||Vincenzo Brunacci (b. 3 March 1768) was an Italian mathematician | | File:Paul Halmos.jpg|link=Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician and academic '''[[Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|Paul Halmos]]''' born. He will make fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces). |
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| ||Richard Dunthorne (d. 3 March 1775) was an English astronomer and surveyor, who worked in Cambridge as astronomical and scientific assistant to Roger Long
| | File:Peter Giblets.jpg|link=Peter Giblets|2017: Steganographic analysis of '''[[Peter Giblets]]''' illustration unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data, apparently a 'Best of Peter Giblets' compilation." |
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| ||Gotthilf Heinrich Ludwig Hagen (b. March 3, 1797) was a German civil engineer who made important contributions to fluid dynamics, hydraulic engineering and probability theory.
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| ||1800 – Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist and paleontologist (d. 1862)
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| ||Aleksandr Nikolayevich Korkin (b. 3 March [O.S. 19 February] 1837) was a Russian mathematician. He made contribution to the development of partial differential equations, and was second only to Chebyshev among the founders of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical School.
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| ||1841 – John Murray, Canadian-Scottish oceanographer and biologist (d. 1914)
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| File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1845: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] born. He will invent [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
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| File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1847: Engineer and inventor [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1847: Engineer, inventor, and academic [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]] born. He will patent the telephone in 1876.
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| File:Minnesota Quaternary geologic map.jpg|link=Minnesota (nonfiction)|1849 – The Territory of [[Minnesota (nonfiction)|Minnesota]] was created.
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| ||Zdenko Hans Skraup (b. March 3, 1850) was a Czech-Austrian chemist who discovered the Skraup reaction, the first quinoline synthesis.
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| ||1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United Kingdom declare war on China.
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| File:Jacquard loom with two children and a dog (circa 1877).jpg|link=Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|1876: Children reprogram [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]] to compute new family of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
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| ||William Kingdon Clifford FRS (d. 3 March 1879) was an English mathematician and philosopher. Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra, a special case of the Clifford algebra named in his honour.
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| ||Kazimierz Władysław Bartel (b. 3 March 1882) was a Polish mathematician, scholar, diplomat and politician. Pic.
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| ||Sir Cyril Lodowic Burt (b. 3 March 1883) was an English educational psychologist and geneticist who made contributions also to statistics. He is known for his studies on the heritability of IQ. Shortly after he died, his studies of inheritance and intelligence were discredited after evidence emerged indicating he had falsified research data. Pic.
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| File:Emil Artin.jpg|link=Emil Artin (nonfiction)|1898: Mathematician [[Emil Artin (nonfiction)|Emil Artin]] born. He will work on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.
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| File:Paul Halmos.jpg|link=Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|1916: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|Paul Halmos]] born. He will make fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).
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| ||1917 – Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and academic (d. 1952)
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| ||1918 – Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
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| ||Dmitry Vasil'evich Shirkov (b. 3 March 1928) was a Russian theoretical physicist, known for his contribution to quantum field theory and to the development of the renormalization group method. Pic.
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| ||1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.
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| ||1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.
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| ||1980 – The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
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| ||Sewall Green Wright (December 21, 1889 – March 3, 1988) was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis.
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| ||1990 – Charlotte Moore Sitterly, American astronomer (b. 1898)
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| ||1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.
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| ||1993 – Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-American mob boss (b. 1910)
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| ||1999 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
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| ||2015 – Ernest Braun, Austrian-English physicist and academic (b. 1925)
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| File:Peter Giblets.jpg|link=Peter Giblets|2017: Steganographic analysis of [[Peter Giblets]] illustration unexpectedly reveals "at least a terabyte of encrypted data, apparently a 'Best of Peter Giblets' compilation." | |
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