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||1736: Stephen Gray dies ... astronomer and physicist. Pic: http://blog.wireandcableyourway.com/stephen-gray-and-the-invention-of-wire | ||1736: Stephen Gray dies ... astronomer and physicist. Pic: http://blog.wireandcableyourway.com/stephen-gray-and-the-invention-of-wire | ||
||1804: John Deere born ... blacksmith and businessman, founded Deere & Company. Pic search | ||1804: John Deere born ... blacksmith and businessman, founded Deere & Company. Pic search. | ||
||1819: Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar. Pic. | ||1819: Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar. Pic. | ||
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File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1889: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|Harry Nyquist]] born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory. | File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1889: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|Harry Nyquist]] born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory. | ||
||1893: Joseph Algernon Pearce born ... astrophysicist and astronomer. Pic search | ||1893: Joseph Algernon Pearce born ... astrophysicist and astronomer. Pic search. | ||
||1897: Maxwell Newman born ... mathematician and codebreaker. Pic. | ||1897: Maxwell Newman born ... mathematician and codebreaker. Pic. | ||
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||1926: Bill Hoest born ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||1926: Bill Hoest born ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||
||1937: George Roger Sell born ... mathematician, specializing in differential equations, dynamical systems, and applications to fluid dynamics, climate modeling, control systems. U of MN. Pic search | ||1937: George Roger Sell born ... mathematician, specializing in differential equations, dynamical systems, and applications to fluid dynamics, climate modeling, control systems. U of MN. Pic search. | ||
||1902: Howard Walter Gilmore dies - "Take her down" - submarine commander in the United States Navy who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his self-sacrifice during World War II. Pic. | |||
||1952: Dmitry Dmitrievich Morduhai-Boltovskoi dies ... mathematician, best known for his work in analysis, differential Galois theory, number theory, hyperbolic geometry, and history of mathematics. Pic. | ||1952: Dmitry Dmitrievich Morduhai-Boltovskoi dies ... mathematician, best known for his work in analysis, differential Galois theory, number theory, hyperbolic geometry, and history of mathematics. Pic. | ||
File:Igor Kurchatov (1940).jpg|link=Igor Kurchatov (nonfiction)|1960: Physicist and academic [[Igor Kurchatov (nonfiction)|Igor Kurchatov]] dies. Kurchatov played a leading role in the Soviet Union's clandestine nuclear weapons program, culminating in the First Lightning bomb test. | File:Igor Kurchatov (1940).jpg|link=Igor Kurchatov (nonfiction)|1960: Physicist and academic [[Igor Kurchatov (nonfiction)|Igor Kurchatov]] dies. Kurchatov played a leading role in the Soviet Union's clandestine nuclear weapons program, culminating in the First Lightning bomb test. | ||
||1969: Hans Adolph Rademacher dies ... mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory. Pic: http://apprendre-math.info/anglais/historyDetail.htm?id=Rademacher | ||1969: Hans Adolph Rademacher dies ... mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and number theory. Pic: http://apprendre-math.info/anglais/historyDetail.htm?id=Rademacher | ||
||1979: Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered. | ||1979: Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered. | ||
File:Replicant Vice - Let Me Tell You About Miami.jpg|link=Replicant Vice|Premiere of '''''[[Replicant Vice]]''''', an American crime drama television series starring Harrison Ford and Roy Batty. | |||
||1984: Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU). | ||1984: Space Shuttle program: STS-41-B Mission: Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit (MMU). | ||
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||1987: Adriaan van Wijngaarden dies ... mathematician and computer scientist, who is considered by many to have been the founding father of informatica (computer science) in the Netherlands. Even though he was trained as an engineer, Van Wijngaarden would emphasize and promote the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numerical analysis, then in programming languages and finally in design principles of programming languages. Pic. | ||1987: Adriaan van Wijngaarden dies ... mathematician and computer scientist, who is considered by many to have been the founding father of informatica (computer science) in the Netherlands. Even though he was trained as an engineer, Van Wijngaarden would emphasize and promote the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numerical analysis, then in programming languages and finally in design principles of programming languages. Pic. | ||
||1990: Alan Perlis dies ... computer scientist and academic. Pic search | ||1990: Alan Perlis dies ... computer scientist and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1990: Max Koecher dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1990: Max Koecher dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
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1877: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
1889: Engineer and theorist Harry Nyquist born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory.
1897: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
1898: Novelist, playwright, and journalist Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.
1960: Physicist and academic Igor Kurchatov dies. Kurchatov played a leading role in the Soviet Union's clandestine nuclear weapons program, culminating in the First Lightning bomb test.
Premiere of Replicant Vice, an American crime drama television series starring Harrison Ford and Roy Batty.
1999: NASA launches the spacecraft Stardust. On January 2, 2004 it will fly by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to earth on 15 January 2006.