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||1564: Johannes Acronius Frisius dies ... physician and mathematician. No DOB. No pics online.
||1616: Nicholas Culpeper born ... botanist, physician, and astrologer. He spent much of his life in outdoor catalogueing of hundreds of medicinal herbs.  Pic.
File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1640: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] announced his "little theorem" in a letter to Bernard Frenicle de Bessey.
||1775: Christian August Crusius dies ... philosopher and theologian ... anti Liebniz. Pic.
||1793: John Wilson dies ... mathematician. Wilson's theorem is named after him. Pic.
||1799: Christian Friedrich Schönbein born ... chemist who is best known for inventing the fuel cell (1838) at the same time as William Robert Grove and his discoveries of guncotton and ozone. Pic.
||1844: Harvey Washington Wiley born ... chemist best known for his leadership in the passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and his subsequent work at the Good Housekeeping Institute laboratories. He was the first commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration.  More: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/10/08/654066794/how-a-19th-century-chemist-took-on-the-food-industry-with-a-grisly-experiment Pic.
||1845: Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini dies ... astronomer, son of César-François Cassini de Thury. Pic.
||1847: Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin born ... electrical engineer and inventor, one of inventors of the incandescent light bulb. Pic.
||1851: Herman Melville's ''Moby-Dick'' is first published as ''The Whale'' by Richard Bentley of London.
||1854: Salomon August Andrée  born ... engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who died while leading an attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon. The balloon expedition was unsuccessful in reaching the Pole and resulted in the deaths of all three of its participants. Pic.
||1859: Henri Bergson born ... philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate ... known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality. Pic.
||1860: The Second Opium War finally ends at the Convention of Peking with the ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin, an unequal treaty.
||1861: Alan Archibald Campbell-Swinton born ... consulting electrical engineer, who provided the theoretical basis for the electronic television, two decades before the technology existed to implement it. Pic.
File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|1871: Polymath [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]] dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.
||1889: Antonio Meucci dies ... engineer ... Meucci is best known for developing a voice-communication apparatus that several sources credit as the first telephone. Pic.
||1894: William F. Raynolds dies ... explorer, engineer and U.S. army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and American Civil War. He is best known for leading the 1859–60 Raynolds Expedition while serving as a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. During the 1850s and again after his participation in the Civil War, Raynolds was the head engineer on numerous lighthouse construction projects. He oversaw riverway and harbor dredging projects intended to improve accessibility and navigation for shipping. As a cartographer, Raynolds surveyed and mapped the islands and shorelines on the Great Lakes and other regions. At least six lighthouses whose construction he oversaw are still standing. Pic.
||1902: Pascual Jordan born ... physicist and theorist. Pic.
File:George E P Box.jpg|link=George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|1919: Statistician and educator [[George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|George E. P. Box]] born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
File:George E P Box.jpg|link=George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|1919: Statistician and educator [[George E. P. Box (nonfiction)|George E. P. Box]] born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
||1921: Beatrice Helen Worsley born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Beatrice+Helen+Worsley
File:Niels Bohr.jpg|link=Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|1921: [[Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|Niels Bohr]] introduces his quantum model of the atom.
||1922: The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded by a consortium, to establish a nationwide network of radio transmitters to provide a national broadcasting service.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.


File:Mars 23 aug 2003 hubble.jpg|link=Mars (nonfiction)|[[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]] agrees to host [[Reality television (nonfiction)|reality TV]] show.
||1934: Santiago Ramón y Cajal dies ... pathologist, histologist, and neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate.
File:Dick_Turpin_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dick Turpin of Mars|Highwayman [[Dick Turpin of Mars]] takes parting shot at [[Dennis Paulson of Mars]], makes another daring escape.
 
File:Dennis Paulson of Mars closeup.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]], new [[Reality television (nonfiction)|reality TV]] show, gets rave reviews.
||1939: Lee Harvey Oswald born ... accused assassin of John F. Kennedy.
File:Mandelbrot-AI-interview.jpg|link=Benoit Mandelbrot|Artist-Engineers prepare an interface to the famed artificial intelligence [[Benoit Mandelbrot]].
 
File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring|[[Green Ring]] interviewed by [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] (1969).
File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
 
||1954: Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio.
 
||1967: The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet.
 
||1973: Walt Kelly dies ... illustrator and animator.
 
||1995: Carson Dunning Jeffries dies ... physicist. The National Academies Press said that Jeffries "made major fundamental contributions to knowledge of nuclear magnetism, electronic spin relaxation, dynamic nuclear polarization, electron-hole droplets, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, and high-temperature superconductors." He was noted for being the first to observe the isotropic spin-spin exchange interaction in metals (also known as the Ruderman-Kittel interaction). He also discovered methods for the dynamic nuclear polarization by saturation of forbidden microwave resonance transitions in solids. He also discovered the existence of giant electron-hole droplets in semiconductors. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Carson+D.+Jeffries
 
||2006: Alvin Martin Weinberg dies ... nuclear physicist who was the administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) during and after the Manhattan Project. He came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1945 and remained there until his death in 2006. He was the first to use the term "Faustian bargain" to describe nuclear energy. Pic.


John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
File:Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule.jpg|link=Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule|2017: Publication of ''[[Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule]]'' generates new interest in [[Organic golem|organic golems]].


File:Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule.jpg|link=Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule|Publication of ''[[Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule]]'' generates new interest in [[Organic golem|organic golems]].
|File:Rosetta's_last_image.jpg|link=Rosetta spacecraft (nonfiction)|"I regret nothing" says [[Rosetta spacecraft (nonfiction)|Rosetta spacecraft]], before impacting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
File:Rosetta's_last_image.jpg|link=Rosetta spacecraft (nonfiction)|"I regret nothing" says [[Rosetta spacecraft (nonfiction)|Rosetta spacecraft]], before impacting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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  • 1640: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat announced his "little theorem" in a letter to Bernard Frenicle de Bessey.

    1640: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat announced his "little theorem" in a letter to Bernard Frenicle de Bessey.

  • 1871: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.

    1871: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.

  • 1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".

    1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".

  • 1921: Niels Bohr introduces his quantum model of the atom.

    1921: Niels Bohr introduces his quantum model of the atom.

  • 1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

    1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.

  • 1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

    1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

  • 2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.

    2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.

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