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||1926 – Franz Sondheimer, German-English chemist and academic (d. 1981) | ||1926 – Franz Sondheimer, German-English chemist and academic (d. 1981) | ||
||Max Valier (d. May 17, 1930) was an Austrian rocketry pioneer. He helped found the German Verein für Raumschiffahrt (VfR - "Spaceflight Society") that would bring together many of the minds that would later make spaceflight a reality in the 20th century. Pic (drawing). | |||
||1964 – Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist and parapsychologist (b. 1895) | ||1964 – Nandor Fodor, Hungarian-American psychologist and parapsychologist (b. 1895) | ||
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1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1854: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis uses Gnomon algorithm functions to prevent outbreak of Kingpin inclination.
1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
1973: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
2001: Mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.
2016: Math criminal Anarchimedes plans to steal, restore, and weaponize the Antikythera mechanism, warn crime analysts.