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File:Jan Brożek.jpg|link=Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer [[Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|Jan Brożek]] dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]]' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.
File:Jan Brożek.jpg|link=Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer [[Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|Jan Brożek]] dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]]' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1675: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Ole Rømer.jpg|link=Ole Rømer (nonfiction)|1676: Astronomer [[Ole Rømer (nonfiction)|Ole Rømer]] presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.


||1773: Chemist Hippolyte-Victor Collet-Descotils born. He studied in the École des Mines de Paris, and was a student and friend of Louis Nicolas Vauquelin. He is best known for confirming the discovery of chromium by Vauquelin, and for independently discovering iridium in 1803. Pic.
||1773: Chemist Hippolyte-Victor Collet-Descotils born. He studied in the École des Mines de Paris, and was a student and friend of Louis Nicolas Vauquelin. He is best known for confirming the discovery of chromium by Vauquelin, and for independently discovering iridium in 1803. Pic.
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||1895: Josef Mattauch born ... physicist known for his work in the investigation of the isotopic abundances by mass spectrometry. He developed the Mattauch isobar rule in 1934. Pic.
||1895: Josef Mattauch born ... physicist known for his work in the investigation of the isotopic abundances by mass spectrometry. He developed the Mattauch isobar rule in 1934. Pic.
File:Clock Head 2.jpg|link=Clock Head 2|1904: Mechanical engineer [[Clock Head 2]] warns theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] that the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², will have "earth-shaking consequences."


File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1905: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]]'s paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal ''Annalen der Physik''.
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1905: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]]'s paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal ''Annalen der Physik''.
File:Arthur Stanley Eddington.jpg|link=Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|1910: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician [[Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|Arthur Eddington]] builds new type of [[scrying engine]] which detects and prevents [[crimes against astronomical constants]].


||1913: Gunnar Kangro born ... mathematician, author, and academic. Pic.
||1913: Gunnar Kangro born ... mathematician, author, and academic. Pic.
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||1978: Francesco Giacomo Tricomi dies ... mathematician famous for his studies on mixed type partial differential equations. Pic.
||1978: Francesco Giacomo Tricomi dies ... mathematician famous for his studies on mixed type partial differential equations. Pic.
File:Harry Lehmann.jpg|link=Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|1984: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|Harry Lehmann]] uses a combination of the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].


||1985: United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
||1985: United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
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||2014: Paul von Ragué Schleyer dies ... chemist and academic ... made contributions in the area of synthesis of adamantane and other cage molecules by rearrangement mechanisms. He also discovered new types of hydrogen bonding. Schleyer also identified solvolysis mechanisms, including reactive intermediates. As a pioneer in the field of computational chemistry, Schleyer identified a number of new molecular structures, especially related to lithium chemistry and electron deficient systems. Pic search.
||2014: Paul von Ragué Schleyer dies ... chemist and academic ... made contributions in the area of synthesis of adamantane and other cage molecules by rearrangement mechanisms. He also discovered new types of hydrogen bonding. Schleyer also identified solvolysis mechanisms, including reactive intermediates. As a pioneer in the field of computational chemistry, Schleyer identified a number of new molecular structures, especially related to lithium chemistry and electron deficient systems. Pic search.


File:Spiral.jpg|link=Spiral (image) (nonfiction)|2018: ''[[Spiral (image) (nonfiction)|Spiral]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


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