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||1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
||1985 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.


||Wilfred J. "Jasper" Holmes (d. January 7, 1986) was a US Naval officer, one of the Station HYPO staff, who had the idea of faking a water supply failure on Midway Island in 1942. He suggested using an unencrypted emergency warning, in the hope of provoking a Japanese response, thus establishing whether Midway was a target.
||1986: Wilfred J. "Jasper" Holmes dies ... US Naval officer, one of the Station HYPO staff, who had the idea of faking a water supply failure on Midway Island in 1942. He suggested using an unencrypted emergency warning, in the hope of provoking a Japanese response, thus establishing whether Midway was a target.


||John Frank Adams FRS (d. 7 January 1989) was a British mathematician, one of the major contributors to homotopy theory.
||1989: John Frank Adams dies ... mathematician, one of the major contributors to homotopy theory.


||1998 – Vladimir Prelog, Croatian-Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
||1995: Harry Golombek dies ... chess grandmaster, chess arbiter, chess author, and wartime codebreaker. Pic.
 
||1998: Vladimir Prelog dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1998: Jerome Murray ... inventor of the peristaltic pump that made open-heart surgery possible. It met the need to pump blood without damaging the cells through a method of expansion and contraction that imitates the way that peristalsis moves the contents of the digestive tract. In addition, the pump was adapted for kidney dialysis and for food processing (to pump soup into cans without crushing the peas or the celery). He decided to invent the airplane boarding ramp when on a day in 1951 at the Miami International Airport he saw passengers having to walk in the rain to the terminal. In all, he held 75 patents including a television antenna rotator, electric carving knife, high-speed dentist drill, power car seat and an audible pressure cooker. No pic. Obit: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/11/business/jerome-murray-85-a-many-faceted-inventor.html
||1998: Jerome Murray ... inventor of the peristaltic pump that made open-heart surgery possible. It met the need to pump blood without damaging the cells through a method of expansion and contraction that imitates the way that peristalsis moves the contents of the digestive tract. In addition, the pump was adapted for kidney dialysis and for food processing (to pump soup into cans without crushing the peas or the celery). He decided to invent the airplane boarding ramp when on a day in 1951 at the Miami International Airport he saw passengers having to walk in the rain to the terminal. In all, he held 75 patents including a television antenna rotator, electric carving knife, high-speed dentist drill, power car seat and an audible pressure cooker. No pic. Obit: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/11/business/jerome-murray-85-a-many-faceted-inventor.html


||Bruria Kaufman (d. January 7, 2010) was an Israeli theoretical physicist. She is known for contributions to Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, to statistical physics, where she used applied spinor analysis to rederive the result of Lars Onsager on the partition function of the two-dimensional Ising Model, and to the study of the Mössbauer effect, on which she collaborated with John von Neumann and Harry Lipkin. Pic.
||2010: Bruria Kaufman dies ... theoretical physicist. She is known for contributions to Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, to statistical physics, where she used applied spinor analysis to rederive the result of Lars Onsager on the partition function of the two-dimensional Ising Model, and to the study of the Mössbauer effect, on which she collaborated with John von Neumann and Harry Lipkin. Pic.


||Herbert Saul Wilf (d. January 7, 2012) was a mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. Pic.
||2012: Herbert Saul Wilf dies ... mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. Pic.


File:Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens|2016: ''[[Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens]]'' used to convict supervillain [[Gnotilus]] ''in absentio''.
File:Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens|2016: ''[[Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens]]'' used to convict supervillain [[Gnotilus]] ''in absentio''.
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