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| File:Peder Horrebow.jpg|link=Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|1679: Astronomer and mathematician [[Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|Peder Horrebow]] born. Horrebow will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars. | | File:Peder Horrebow.jpg|link=Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|1679: Astronomer and mathematician [[Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|Peder Horrebow]] born. Horrebow will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars. |
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| File:John Charles Fields.jpg|link=John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|1863: Mathematician [[John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|John Charles Fields]] born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. | | File:John Charles Fields.jpg|link=John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|1863: Mathematician [[John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|John Charles Fields]] born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. |
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| ||1872: Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet born ... botanist who invented chromatography. His last name is Russian for both "color" and " flowering ." Pic.
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| File:Ernst Kummer.jpg|link=Ernst Kummer (nonfiction)|1893: Mathematician [[Ernst Kummer (nonfiction)|Ernst Kummer]] born. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics.
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| ||1899: Pierre Victor Auger born ... physicist ... worked in the fields of atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic ray physics. Pic.
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| ||1916: William Stanley Jr. ... physicist born in Brooklyn, New York. In his career, he obtained 129 patents covering a variety of electric devices. In 1913, he patented an all-steel vacuum bottle, and formed the Stanley Bottle Company. Pic.
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| File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] born. Christy will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells. | | File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] born. Christy will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells. |
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| File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system. | | File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system. |
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| ||1925: Yuval Ne'eman born ... theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. Pic.
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| ||1928: Frederik H. Kreuger born ... engineer, author, and academic ... also a professional author of technical literature, nonfiction books, thrillers and a decisive biography of the master forger Han van Meegeren.
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| ||1944: David Christopher Kelly born ... scientist and authority on biological warfare, anthrax. Death by suicide. Pic.
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| ||1945: Isis Pogson dies ... astronomer and meteorologist. Pic search.
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| ||1947: John Ray Sinnock dies ... the eighth Chief Engraver of the United States Mint from 1925 to 1947. Roosevelt dime sculptor. Pic.
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| ||1956: Albert Kluyver dies ... microbiologist and biochemist. Kluyver famously expressed the ideas of biochemical unity and comparative biochemistry with the aphorism: "From elephant to butyric acid bacterium – it is all the same". Pic.
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| ||1964: Mara Neusel born ... mathematician, author, and academic ... an advocate for women in mathematics. The focus of her mathematical work was on invariant theory. Pic search.
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| ||1967: American cryptanalyst and Soviet NKVD agent Bill Weisband dies ... revealed the Venona Project, U.S. decryptions of Soviet diplomatic and intelligence codes to Soviet intelligence. Pic.
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| ||1995: Christian B. Anfinsen dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| ||2006: Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk dies ... physicist, one of the founders of optical holography. He is known for his great contribution to holography, in particular for the so-called "Denisyuk hologram". Pic.
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| ||2006: Robert Bruce Merrifield dies ... was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis. Pic.
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| ||2007: Stephen E. Straus dies ... physician, immunologist, virologist and science administrator. He is particularly known for his research into human herpesviruses and chronic fatigue syndrome, and for his discovery of the autoimmune lymphoproliferative syndrome genetic disorder. Pic.
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| ||2016: Darwyn Cooke dies ... comic book writer and artist.
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| ||1931: E. C. George Sudarshan born ... theoretical physicist and academic. Pic.
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