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||1930: Elmer Ambrose Sperry dies ... inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass. | ||1930: Elmer Ambrose Sperry dies ... inventor, co-invented the gyrocompass. | ||
||1930: Harvey Washington Wiley dies ... chemist best known for his leadership in the passage of the landmark Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and his subsequent work at the Good Housekeeping Institute laboratories. He was the first commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration. More: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/10/08/654066794/how-a-19th-century-chemist-took-on-the-food-industry-with-a-grisly-experiment Pic. | |||
||1933: The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed. It would later be declared unconstitutional. | ||1933: The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed. It would later be declared unconstitutional. | ||
|| | ||938: Michel Raynaud born ... mathematician working in algebraic geometry. He will be known for Raynaud's isogeny theorem and the Raynaud surface. Pic. | ||
||1944: Acharya Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray dies ... chemist, educator and entrepreneur. Pic. | ||1944: Acharya Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray dies ... chemist, educator and entrepreneur. Pic. | ||
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1522: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler uses Gnomon algorithm functions to predict and prevent Crimes against mathematical constants.
1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo born. He will write Elim (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1806: Physician, scientist, and inventor Edward Davy born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.
1839: Mathematician Julius Petersen born. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
1915: Mathematician and academic John Tukey born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.
2017: The monster depicted in Do Not Tease Monster is voted Monster of the Year in a survey of 3200 monsters.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Electrical Storm unexpectedly reveals "five hundred to seven hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.