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||1964: Gulf of Tonkin incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin. | ||1964: Gulf of Tonkin incident: U.S. destroyers USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy report coming under attack in the Gulf of Tonkin. | ||
||1977: Edgar Adrian | ||1977: Edgar Douglas Adrian dies ... electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. He provided experimental evidence for the all-or-none law of nerves. Pic. | ||
||1980: Georg Aumann dies ... mathematician. He was known for his work in general topology and regulated functions. During World War II, he worked as part of a group of five mathematicians, recruited by Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Georg Aumann, Alexander Aigner, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, and lead by Wolfgang Franz, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called: Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (abbr. OKW/Chi). He also worked as a cryptanalyst, on the initial breaking of the most difficult cyphers. He also researched and developed cryptography theory. Pic. | ||1980: Georg Aumann dies ... mathematician. He was known for his work in general topology and regulated functions. During World War II, he worked as part of a group of five mathematicians, recruited by Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Georg Aumann, Alexander Aigner, Oswald Teichmueller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, and lead by Wolfgang Franz, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the late 1930s, which would eventually be called: Section IVc of Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht (abbr. OKW/Chi). He also worked as a cryptanalyst, on the initial breaking of the most difficult cyphers. He also researched and developed cryptography theory. Pic. | ||
||2004: Mary Sherman Morgan dies ... chemist and engineer. | ||2004: Mary Sherman Morgan dies ... chemist and engineer ... rocket fuel scientist credited with the invention of the liquid fuel Hydyne in 1957, which powered the Jupiter-C rocket that boosted the United States' first satellite, Explorer 1. Pic. | ||
||2005: Anatoly Larkin dies ... physicist and theorist. | ||2005: Anatoly Larkin dies ... physicist and theorist. Pic. | ||
||2007: NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is launched. | ||2007: NASA's Phoenix spacecraft is launched. | ||
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1805: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician William Rowan Hamilton born. He will make important contributions to classical mechanics, optics, and algebra, inventing the quaternion.
1833: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère uses principles of electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics", to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1834: Mathematician and philosopher John Venn born. He will invent the Venn diagram, now widely used set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science.
2016: The Shovel depicts The Custodian in the act of reversing contract violations by Egon Rhodomunde and Baron Zersetzung.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Fire Dance reveals "at least five hundred" previously unknown shades of red.