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| File:Yanghui triangle.gif|link=Rod calculus (nonfiction)|1262: First use of [[Rod calculus (nonfiction)|Yui's triangle]] to compute the [[APTO]] Accords. | | File:Marcello Malpighi by Carlo Cignani.jpg|link=Marcello Malpighi (nonfiction)|1628: Physician and biologist [[Marcello Malpighi (nonfiction)|Marcello Malpighi]] born. Malpighi will make pioneering contributions to anatomy, histology, physiology, embryology, and microscopy. |
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| ||1588: Theodor Zwinger dies ... physician and humanist scholar. He made significant contributions to the emerging genres of reference and travel literature. Pic.
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| File:Johann Rudolf Glauber.jpg|link=Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|1604: Alchemist and chemist [[Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|Johann Rudolf Glauber]] born. He will be an early industrial chemical engineer.
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| File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1604: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] prevents alleged supervillain [[Anarchimedes]] from kidnapping the newborn [[Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|Johann Rudolf Glauber]]. [[Anarchimedes]] intended to raise [[Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|Glauber]] in captivity, taking credit for [[Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|Glauber]]'s chemical research.
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| ||1628: Marcello Malpighi born ... biologist and physician, who is referred to as the "Father of microscopical anatomy, histology, physiology and embryology". Pic.
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| ||1662: Samuel Hartlib or Hartlieb dies ... polymath. An active promoter and expert writer in many fields, he was interested in science, medicine, agriculture, politics, and education. Hartlib is often described as an "intelligencer", and indeed has been called "the Great Intelligencer of Europe". His main aim in life was to further knowledge and so he kept in touch with a vast array of contacts, from high philosophers to gentleman farmers. No birth date. Pic: https://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/gatt/catalog.php?num=82
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| File:Johann Rudolf Glauber.jpg|link=Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|1670: Alchemist and chemist [[Johann Rudolf Glauber (nonfiction)|Johann Rudolf Glauber]] dies. He was an early industrial chemical engineer.
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| ||1709: Georg Wilhelm Steller born ... botanist, zoologist, physician, and explorer. No portrait exists. Pic: memorial stone.
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| ||1724: Urban Hjärne dies ... chemist, geologist, and physician. Pic.
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| ||1748: Rev Prof John Playfair born ... Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Pic.
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| ||1762: Jean Calas executed ... merchant living in Toulouse, France, who was tried, tortured and executed for the murder of his son, despite his protestations of innocence. Calas was a Protestant in an officially Roman Catholic society. Doubts about his guilt were raised by opponents of the Catholic Church and he was exonerated in 1764. In France, he became a symbolic victim of religious intolerance, along with François-Jean de la Barre and Pierre-Paul Sirven. Pic.
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| ||1762: Jeremias Benjamin Richter born ... chemist. He is known for introducing the term stoichiometry. Pic.
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| ||1805: Felice Fontana born ... physicist who discovered the water gas shift reaction in 1780. He is also credited with launching modern toxicology and investigating the human eye. Pic.
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| ||1825: Karl Brandan Mollweide born ... mathematician and astronomer in Halle and Leipzig. Pic search scanty: https://www.google.com/search?q=karl+brandan+mollweide
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| ||1864: William Fogg Osgood born ... mathematician. Pic.
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| ||1872: Carlo Severini born ... mathematician. Pic search limited (tomb): https://www.google.com/search?q=carlo+severini
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| ||1874: Moritz Hermann von Jacobi born ... engineer and physicist born in Potsdam. Jacobi worked mainly in Russia. He furthered progress in galvanoplastics, electric motors, and wire telegraphy. Pic.
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| File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1876: [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]] makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." | | File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1876: [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]] makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." |
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| ||1891: Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching. Pic.
| | File:Val Fitch.jpg|link=Val Logsdon Fitch (nonfiction)|1923: Physicist and academic [[Val Logsdon Fitch (nonfiction)|Val Logsdon Fitch]] born. Fitch will share the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics with co-researcher James Cronin for a 1964 experiment which proves that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles (CP violation). |
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| ||1904: Ralph Kronig born ... physicist. He is noted for the discovery of particle spin and for his theory of x-ray absorption spectroscopy. Pic.
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| ||1920: Boris Vian born ... polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release. Pic.
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| File:Val Fitch.jpg|link=Val Logsdon Fitch (nonfiction)|1923: Physicist and academic [[Val Logsdon Fitch (nonfiction)|Val Logsdon Fitch]] born. He will share the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics with co-researcher James Cronin for a 1964 experiment which proves that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles (CP violation). | |
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| File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1936: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] invents an early form of all-electronic [[scrying engine]] which detects and exposes [[transdimensional corporations]].
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| ||1942: Wilbur Scoville dies ... pharmacist and chemist. Pic.
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| |File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1946: The United States Army Signal Corps modifies [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]] antenna to power new type of [[scrying engine]] intended to detect and counterattack [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| File:Karl Jones winter hat February 2017.jpg|link=Karl Jones (nonfiction)|1961: [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]] born.
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| ||1966: Frits Zernike dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| File:Sir Charles Oatley.jpg|link=Charles Oatley (nonfiction)|1967: Engineer, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Charles Oatley (nonfiction)|Charles William Oatley]] invents new type of scanning electron microscope which detects and prevents [[crimes against physical constants]].
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| ||1977: Astronomers discover the rings of Uranus. Pic.
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| ||2000: Nim Chimpsky dies ... chimpanzee that was the subject of an extended study of animal language acquisition (codenamed 6.001) at Columbia University. Pic.
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| ||2001: Mathematician, physicist, and academic Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer dies. He was a leading academic in his native Ceylon. Pic.
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| ||2002: George Fix dies ... mathematician who collaborated on several seminal papers and books in the field of finite element method. Pic. | | File:Karl Jones winter hat February 2017.jpg|link=Karl Jones (nonfiction)|1961: Author, artist, and raconteur [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]] born. Jones will compile the Gnomon Chronicles, a work of fiction and non-fiction, fact and fantasy. |
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| File:Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter.jpg|link=Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (nonfiction)|2006: The ''[[Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (nonfiction)|Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter]]'' arrives at [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | | File:Mars_Reconnaissance_Orbiter.jpg|link=Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (nonfiction)|2006: The ''[[Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (nonfiction)|Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter]]'' arrives at [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. |
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| ||2012: Bert R. Bulkin dies ... engineer.
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| ||2012: Frank Sherwood Rowland dues ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
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| File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the eleventh anniversary of the ''[[Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (nonfiction)|Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter]]'' arriving at [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the eleventh anniversary of the ''[[Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (nonfiction)|Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter]]'' arriving at [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. |
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| ||2018: Michel Raynaud dies ... mathematician working in algebraic geometry. He will be known for Raynaud's isogeny theorem and the Raynaud surface. Pic.
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| File:Embassy.jpg|link=Embassy (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Embassy (nonfiction)|Embassy]]'' by [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]] is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
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