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|File:Gnotilus-fighting-Heracles.jpg|link=Gnotilus|525 BC: Supervillain [[Gnotilus]] defends himself from sneak attack by the [[Heracles (nonfiction)|Heracles]].
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File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1521: Polymath [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to prevent [[Gnotilus]] from secreting [[geometry solvent]].
||1547: Konrad Peutinger dies ... humanist and antiquarian. Pic.


||1547 – Konrad Peutinger, German humanist and antiquarian (b. 1465)
File:Galileo by Leoni.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1612: [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo]] became the first person to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.


File:Galileo by Leoni.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1612: [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo]] became the first person to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.
File:Francesco Maria Grimaldi.jpg|link=Francesco Maria Grimaldi (nonfiction)|1663: Mathematician and physicist [[Francesco Maria Grimaldi (nonfiction)|Francesco Maria Grimaldi]] dies. Working with Riccioli, he investigated the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.
 
||1706: Pierre Bayle dies ... philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary, publication beginning in 1697. Bayle was a French Calvinist. As a forerunner of the Encyclopedists and an advocate of the principle of toleration, his works subsequently influenced the development of the Enlightenment. Pic.
 
||1713: Abbé Nicolas Louis de La Caille born ... astronomer. Pic.


||1663 – Francesco Maria Grimaldi, Italian mathematician and physicist (b. 1618)
||1734: Rob Roy MacGregor dies ... outlaw. Pic.


||Abbé Nicolas Louis de La Caille, sometimes spelled Lacaille, (b. 28 December 1713) was a French astronomer.
||1798: Thomas Henderson born ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic.


||1734 – Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish outlaw (b. 1671)
||1818: Carl Remigius Fresenius, German chemist and academic born.  Pic.


||1798 – Thomas Henderson, Scottish astronomer and mathematician (d. 1844)
||1852: Civil engineer and mathematician Leonardo Torres y Quevedo born ... invented the Telekine, an early wireless remote-control device. Pic.


||1818 – Carl Remigius Fresenius, German chemist and academic (d. 1897)
||1873: William Draper Harkins born ... chemist, notably for his contributions to nuclear chemistry. Harkins researched the structure of the atomic nucleus and was the first to propose the principle of nuclear fusion, four years before Jean Baptiste Perrin published his theory in 8919-20. His findings enabled, among other things, the development of the H-bomb. Pic search.


File:Arthur Stanley Eddington.jpg|link=Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|1882: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician [[Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|Arthur Eddington]] born. He will become famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.
File:Arthur Stanley Eddington.jpg|link=Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|1882: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician [[Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|Arthur Eddington]] born. He will become famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.


||1887 – Werner Kolhörster, German physicist and academic (d. 1946)
||1887: Werner Kolhörster born ... physicist and academic. Pic search.


||1895 – The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
||1893: Professor James Dewar gave six well-illustrated lectures on “Air gaseous and liquid,” at the Royal Institution, London, between this day and 9 Jan 1894. Some of the air in the room was liquified in the presence of the audience and it remained so for some time, when enclosed in a vacuum jacket. Again, 1 Apr 1898. Pic.
 
||1894: F. L. Lucas born ... classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II. Pic.
 
||1895: The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines. Pic.


File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1895: [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1895: [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.


||1898 – Carl-Gustaf Rossby, Swedish-American meteorologist and academic (d. 1957)
||1898: Carl-Gustaf Rossby born ... meteorologist and academic. Pic search.
 
File:Hazmatterhorn.jpg|link=Hazmatterhorn|1902: APTO industrial chemists classify the [[Hazmatterhorn]] as a Crime Against Chemical Constants.  Although derived from the word ''Matterhorn'', the term Hazmatterhorn is applicable to any mountain of hazardous materials.


File:John von Neumann.gif|link=John von Neumann (nonfiction)|1903: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist [[John von Neumann (nonfiction)|John von Neumann]] born. He will be a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and develop mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.  
File:John von Neumann.gif|link=John von Neumann (nonfiction)|1903: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist [[John von Neumann (nonfiction)|John von Neumann]] born. He will be a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and develop mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.  


||1919 – Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and academic (b. 1854)
||1916: Tarleton Hoffman Bean dies ... ichthyologist. Pic.
 
||1919: Johannes Rydberg dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
 
||1924: Karl Longin Zeller born ... mathematician and computer scientist who worked in numerical analysis and approximation theory. He is the namesake of Zeller operators.
Zeller was drafted into the German army, and lost his right arm on the Soviet front of World War II. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen in 1950, under the supervision of Konrad Knopp and Erich Kamke, and remained at Tübingen for most of his career as a professor and as director of the computer center. He left Tübingen in 1959 for a professorship in Stuttgart but returned to Tübingen in 1960 with a personal chair in "the mathematics of supercomputer facilities", making him one of the founders of computer science in Germany. No pic online, try library.


||Karl Longin Zeller (b. 1924) was a German mathematician and computer scientist who worked in numerical analysis and approximation theory.[1] He is the namesake of Zeller operators.
||1931: Irene Joliot-Curie reported her study of the unusually penetrating radiation released when beryllium was bombarded by alpha particles seen by the German physicists, Walter Bothe and H. Becker in 1930. Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie) agreed with them that the radiation was energetic gamma rays. She further discovered that if the emitted radiation passed through paraffin (or other hydrogen containing materials), large numbers of protons were released. Since this was, in fact, a previously unknown result for gamma rays, she lacked an explanation. It was to be the experiments of James Chadwick performed during 7-17 Feb that would discover the radiation was in fact new particles - neutrons. Pic.
Zeller was drafted into the German army, and lost his right arm on the Soviet front of World War II.[1] He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen in 1950, under the supervision of Konrad Knopp and Erich Kamke,[2] and remained at Tübingen for most of his career as a professor and as director of the computer center. He left Tübingen in 1959 for a professorship in Stuttgart but returned to Tübingen in 1960 with a personal chair in "the mathematics of supercomputer facilities" (German: Mathematik der Hochleistungsrechenanlagen), making him one of the founders of computer science in Germany.


File:Carnivorous_airships_circa_1930-31.jpg|link=Carnivorous dirigible|1933: [[Carnivorous dirigible|Carnivorous dirigibles]] break their tethers, eat over two hundred head of cattle.
||1967: Katharine McCormick dies ... biologist and philanthropist. Pic.


||1967 – Katharine McCormick, American biologist and philanthropist (b. 1875)
||1985: Josef Lense dies ... physicist. Lense, together with Hans Thirring, is known as one of the two discoverers of the Lense-Thirring effect. Pic.


||Josef Lense (d. December 28, 1985) was an Austrian physicist. Lense, together with Hans Thirring, is known as one of the two discoverers of the Lense-Thirring effect.
||1989: Hermann Oberth dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.


||1989 – Hermann Oberth, Romanian-German physicist and engineer (b. 1894)
||2001: Samuel Abraham Goldblith dies ... lieutenant, biologist, and engineer. Pic search.


|File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1997: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] invents new type of [[scrying engine]].
||2005: The first in a network of satellites, named Galileo, was launched by a consortium of European goverments and companies. It was expected that by 2011, Galileo was to consist of 30 satellites providing worldwide coverage as an alternative to the U.S. monopoly with its Global Positioning System (GPS). At a cost of $4 billion, it was Europe's biggest-ever space project, with one-third contributed by governments and the balance from eight companies. Since the American GPS is controlled by the military, the European satellite network is designed to ensure independance for civilian use, but also offer more precision for a paid service. Customers are expected to include service for small airports, transportation, and mobile phone manufacturers to build in navigation capabilities.  


||2001 – Samuel Abraham Goldblith, American lieutenant, biologist, and engineer (b. 1919)
||2008: Arthur Oliver Lonsdale Atkin dies ... Atkin, along with Noam Elkies, extended Schoof's algorithm to create the Schoof–Elkies–Atkin algorithm. Together with Daniel J. Bernstein, he developed the sieve of Atkin. Atkin is also known for his work on properties of the integer partition function and the monster module. mathematician. Pic: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81482208/arthur-oliver_lonsdale-atkin


|File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|2002: [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to counteract effects of [[geometry solvent]].
||2011: James Earl Baumgartner dies ... mathematician who worked in set theory, mathematical logic and foundations, and topology. Pic.


||2012 – Mark Crispin, American computer scientist and academic, designed the IMAP (b. 1956)
||2012: Mark Crispin dies ... computer scientist and academic, designed the IMAP. Pic search.


||2013 – Halton Arp, American-German astronomer and critic (b. 1927)
||2013: Halton Arp dies ... astronomer. He was known for his 1966 ''Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies'', which (it was later theorized) catalogues many examples of interacting and merging galaxies, though Arp disputed the idea, claiming apparent associations were prime examples of ejections. Arp was also known as a critic of the Big Bang theory and for advocating a non-standard cosmology incorporating intrinsic redshift. Pic.


|File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2017: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].
File:Anne Penfold Street.jpg|link=Anne Penfold Street (nonfiction)|2016: Mathematician [[Anne Penfold Street (nonfiction)|Anne Penfold Street]] dies. She specialized in combinatorics, authoring several textbooks; her work on sum-free sets became a standard reference for its subject matter.


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  • 1612: Galileo became the first person to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.

    1612: Galileo became the first person to observe the planet Neptune, although he mistakenly catalogued it as a fixed star.

  • 1663: Mathematician and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi dies. Working with Riccioli, he investigated the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.

    1663: Mathematician and physicist Francesco Maria Grimaldi dies. Working with Riccioli, he investigated the free fall of objects, confirming that the distance of fall was proportional to the square of the time taken.

  • 1882: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington born. He will become famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.

    1882: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington born. He will become famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.

  • 1895: Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.

    1895: Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.

  • 1902: APTO industrial chemists classify the Hazmatterhorn as a Crime Against Chemical Constants. Although derived from the word Matterhorn, the term Hazmatterhorn is applicable to any mountain of hazardous materials.

    1902: APTO industrial chemists classify the Hazmatterhorn as a Crime Against Chemical Constants. Although derived from the word Matterhorn, the term Hazmatterhorn is applicable to any mountain of hazardous materials.

  • 1903: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist John von Neumann born. He will be a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and develop mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.

    1903: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist John von Neumann born. He will be a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and develop mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.

  • 2016: Mathematician Anne Penfold Street dies. She specialized in combinatorics, authoring several textbooks; her work on sum-free sets became a standard reference for its subject matter.

    2016: Mathematician Anne Penfold Street dies. She specialized in combinatorics, authoring several textbooks; her work on sum-free sets became a standard reference for its subject matter.

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