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File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|986: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] dies. | File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|986: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] dies. | ||
||1555: Gemma Frisius dies ... physician, mathematician, and cartographer. | ||1555: Gemma Frisius dies ... physician, mathematician, and cartographer. Pic. | ||
||1632: Adam Tanner dies ... mathematician and philosopher, | ||1632: Adam Tanner dies ... Jesuit, mathematician, and philosopher. No pic online. | ||
||1812: Filippo Pacini born ... anatomist, posthumously famous for isolating the cholera bacterium Vibrio cholerae in 1854, well before Robert Koch's more widely accepted discoveries 30 years later. Pic. | |||
File:Karl Mikhailovich Peterson.jpg|link=Karl Mikhailovich Peterson (nonfiction)|1828: Mathematician [[Karl Mikhailovich Peterson (nonfiction)|Karl Mikhailovich Peterson]] born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space. | File:Karl Mikhailovich Peterson.jpg|link=Karl Mikhailovich Peterson (nonfiction)|1828: Mathematician [[Karl Mikhailovich Peterson (nonfiction)|Karl Mikhailovich Peterson]] born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space. | ||
||1865: Pieter Zeeman born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1865: Pieter Zeeman born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1866: Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman dies ... mathematician. | ||1866: Nikolai Dmitrievich Brashman dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1878: Andreas Freiherr von Ettingshausen dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | ||1878: Andreas Freiherr von Ettingshausen dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | ||
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986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.
1828: Mathematician Karl Mikhailovich Peterson born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space.
1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
1981: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.