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||1911: Leslie Howarth born ... mathematician who dealt with hydrodynamics and aerodynamics. Pic: http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/55/107.full.pdf
||1911: Leslie Howarth born ... mathematician who dealt with hydrodynamics and aerodynamics. Pic: http://rsbm.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/roybiogmem/55/107.full.pdf
||1912: Samuel Curran born ... physicist and the first Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Strathclyde – the first of the new technical universities in Britain. He is the inventor of the scintillation counter, the proportional counter, and the proximity fuse. Pic: https://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH0190&type=P


||1915: S. Donald Stookey born ... physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare.
||1915: S. Donald Stookey born ... physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare.

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  • 1707: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus born. He will formalize the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.

    1707: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus born. He will formalize the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.

  • 1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.

    1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.

  • 1917: Mathematician Edward Lorenz born. He will introduce the strange attractor notion, and coin the term butterfly effect.

    1917: Mathematician Edward Lorenz born. He will introduce the strange attractor notion, and coin the term butterfly effect.

  • 1918: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."

    1918: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."

  • 1982: Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.

    1982: Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.

  • 1994: George P. Metesky dies. He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.

    1994: George P. Metesky dies. He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.

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