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||1880 – John Benjamin Macneill, Irish engineer (b. 1790) | ||1880 – John Benjamin Macneill, Irish engineer (b. 1790) | ||
||Alfred James Lotka | ||1880: Alfred James Lotka born ... mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician, famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics. An American biophysicist, Lotka is best known for his proposal of the predator–prey model, developed simultaneously but independently of Vito Volterra. The Lotka–Volterra model is still the basis of many models used in the analysis of population dynamics in ecology. Pic. | ||
||Joseph Alfred Serret | ||1885: Joseph Alfred Serret dies ... mathematician. He will be known for the Frenet–Serret formulas. Pic. | ||
||1886 | ||1886: Kurt Grelling born ... logician and philosopher. | ||
||1901 | ||1901: Grete Hermann born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1902 | ||1902: Edward Condon born ... physicist and academic. | ||
||1910: Charles Pisot born ... mathematician. He is chiefly recognized as one of the primary investigators of the numerical set associated with his name, the Pisot–Vijayaraghavan numbers. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Pisot.html | |||
File:Arthur Stanley Eddington.jpg|link=Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|1911: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician [[Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|Arthur Eddington]] builds new type of [[scrying engine]] which detects and prevents [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Arthur Stanley Eddington.jpg|link=Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|1911: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician [[Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|Arthur Eddington]] builds new type of [[scrying engine]] which detects and prevents [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||Vitold Belevitch | ||1921: Vitold Belevitch born ... mathematician and electrical engineer of Russian origin who produced some important work in the field of electrical network theory. | ||
||1922 | ||1922: Frances Spence born ... computer programmer. | ||
||Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov | ||1913: Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov born ... physicist who is known for his discovery of the spontaneous fission and his contribution towards the physics of thermal reactions. | ||
||Kurt Leichtweiss | ||1927: Kurt Leichtweiss born ... mathematician specializing in convex and differential geometry. Pic. | ||
||1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute. | ||1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94 hours and one minute. | ||
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1453: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel born. He will publish numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.
1478: Artist, inventor, and crime-fighter Leonardo da Vinci writes a letter to Johannes Engel, suggesting the need for an almanac of crimes against astronomical constants.
1791: Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore telegraph machine in Paris.
1911: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington builds new type of scrying engine which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
1972: The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
1997: Mathematician Jordan Carson Mark dies. He oversaw the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s.
2017: Famed gem detective Niles Cartouchian captures supervillain Fugitive Rubies.