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||1916 – Jack Vance, American author (d. 2013) | ||1916 – Jack Vance, American author (d. 2013) | ||
||1917 | ||1917: Jack Kirby born ... author and illustrator. | ||
||1918 | ||1918: L. B. Cole born ... illustrator and publisher. | ||
||1919 | ||1919: Godfrey Hounsfield born ... biophysicist and engineer Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1921 | ||1921: John Herbert Chapman born ... physicist and engineer. | ||
|| | ||1941: Peter Manfred Gruber born ... mathematician working in geometric number theory as well as in convex and discrete geometry. Pic. | ||
||1965 | ||1963: Julius Edgar Lilienfeld dies ... physicist and electronic engineer, credited with the first patents on the field-effect transistor (FET) (1925) and electrolytic capacitor (1931). | ||
||1965: Giulio Racah dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic. | |||
File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1966: New study reveals that the [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series is funded by a [[Brownian racket]]. | File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1966: New study reveals that the [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series is funded by a [[Brownian racket]]. | ||
||1993 | ||1993: The asteroid 243 Ida became the first found to have a moon when it was visited by NASA's Galileo probe. | ||
||George Szekeres | ||2005: George Szekeres dies ... mathematician. He will discover the Szekeres snark, a snark with 50 vertices and 75 edges. Pic. | ||
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1801: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot born. He will introduce the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
1802: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on his pioneering work in differential geometry, which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
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1916: Sociologist and author C. Wright Mills born. He will be published widely in popular and intellectual journals, advocating public and political engagement over disinterested observation.
1966: New study reveals that the Brainiac Explains lecture series is funded by a Brownian racket.