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| ||Johannes (or Jean) Sturm dies ... 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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| ||1593: Valentin Naboth dies ... 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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| ||1621: Rudolph Goclenius the Younger dies ... physician and professor of physics, medicine and mathematics at the Philipps University of Marburg. He was the oldest son of Rudolph Goclenius, who was also professor of rhetoric, logic and ethics at Marburg. As a physician he worked on cures against the plague. He became famous for his miraculous cure with the "weapon salve" or Powder of Sympathy. Based on the hermetic concepts of Paracelsus he published 1608 the proposition of a "magnetic" cure to heal wounds: the application of the salve on the weapon should heal the wounds afflicted by the weapon. This concept was brought to England by the alchemist Robert Fludd. A famous proponent was Sir Kenelm Digby. Synchronising the effects of the powder (which apparently caused a noticeable effect on the patient when applied) was actually suggested in the leaflet Curious Enquiries in 1687 as a means of solving the longitude problem. Pic. | | File:Minnesota Quaternary geologic map.jpg|link=Minnesota (nonfiction)|1849 – The Territory of '''[[Minnesota (nonfiction)|Minnesota]]''' was created. |
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| ||1703: Robert Hooke dies ... natural philosopher, architect and polymath. | | 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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| ||1751: Pierre Prévost born ... 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: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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| ||1768: Vincenzo Brunacci born ... mathematician
| | 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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| ||1775: Richard Dunthorne dies ... astronomer and surveyor, who worked in Cambridge as astronomical and scientific assistant to Roger Long.
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| ||1797: Gotthilf Hagen born ... civil engineer who made important contributions to fluid dynamics, hydraulic engineering and probability theory. Pic.
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| ||1800: Heinrich Georg Bronn born ... geologist and paleontologist.
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| ||1837: Aleksandr Korkin born ... 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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| ||George William Hill born ... astronomer and mathematician. Working independently and largely in isolation from the wider scientific community, he made major contributions to celestial mechanics and to the theory of ordinary differential equations. Pic.
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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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| ||1850: Zdenko Hans Skraup born ... 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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| ||1879: William Kingdon Clifford dies ... 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 honor. Clifford was the first to suggest that gravitation might be a manifestation of an underlying geometry. Pic.
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| ||1882: Kazimierz Bartel born ... mathematician, scholar, diplomat and politician. Pic.
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| ||1883: Cyril Burt born ... 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 born ... physicist and academic.
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| ||1918: Arthur Kornberg born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||1928: Dmitry Shirkov born ... 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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| File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|1987: While vacationing in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]], mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] visits the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse, where he gives an impromptu lecture on applications of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem to the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1988: Sewall Green Wright dies ... 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 dies ... 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: Albert Bruce Sabin dies ... physician and microbiologist best known for developing the first oral polio vaccine (1955), which was administered to millions of children in Europe, Africa, and the Americas beginning in the late 1950s. He was also known for his research in the fields of human viral diseases, toxoplasmosis, and cancer. Pic.
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| ||1993: Carlos Marcello dies ... mob boss.
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| ||1999: Gerhard Herzberg dies ... chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate.
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| ||2015: Ernest Braun dies ... physicist and academic.
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| File:Mad King.jpg|link=Mad King (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Mad King (nonfiction)|Mad King]]'' unexpectedly releases a contagious wave of [[math crimes]].
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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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