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||1882: James Larkin White born ... miner, explorer, and park ranger. Pic. | ||1882: James Larkin White born ... miner, explorer, and park ranger. Pic. | ||
||1888: Jacob Tamarkin born ... mathematician best known for his work in mathematical analysis. Pic search | ||1888: Jacob Tamarkin born ... mathematician best known for his work in mathematical analysis. Pic search. | ||
||1891: Brain surgeon and academic Herbert Olivecrona born. He is credited with founding the field of Swedish neurosurgery, and pioneering developments in modern neurosurgery. Pic. | ||1891: Brain surgeon and academic Herbert Olivecrona born. He is credited with founding the field of Swedish neurosurgery, and pioneering developments in modern neurosurgery. Pic. | ||
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||1924: Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes born ... experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark. Pic: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Cesar_lattes_01.png | ||1924: Cesare Mansueto Giulio Lattes born ... experimental physicist, one of the discoverers of the pion, a composite subatomic particle made of a quark and an antiquark. Pic: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ficheiro:Cesar_lattes_01.png | ||
||1927: Ted Taylor born ... theoretical physicist. He contributed to fission nuclear weapon development, designing the smallest fission bomb of the era ("Davy Crockett"), which weighed only 60 pounds. His later career focused on nuclear energy. Pic search | ||1927: Ted Taylor born ... theoretical physicist. He contributed to fission nuclear weapon development, designing the smallest fission bomb of the era ("Davy Crockett"), which weighed only 60 pounds. His later career focused on nuclear energy. Pic search. | ||
||1927: Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman born ... engineer and physicist who was widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser (Others attribute the invention to Gordon Gould). Pic. | ||1927: Theodore Harold "Ted" Maiman born ... engineer and physicist who was widely, but not universally, credited with the invention of the laser (Others attribute the invention to Gordon Gould). Pic. | ||
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||1995: Andrzej Alexiewicz dies ... mathematician ... worked in functional analysis, and continued and edited the work of Stefan Banach ... the Alexiewicz norm is an integral norm associated to the Henstock–Kurzweil integral. The Alexiewicz norm turns the space of Henstock–Kurzweil integrable functions into a topological vector space that is barrelled but not complete. Pic. | ||1995: Andrzej Alexiewicz dies ... mathematician ... worked in functional analysis, and continued and edited the work of Stefan Banach ... the Alexiewicz norm is an integral norm associated to the Henstock–Kurzweil integral. The Alexiewicz norm turns the space of Henstock–Kurzweil integrable functions into a topological vector space that is barrelled but not complete. Pic. | ||
||1999: Jan Sloot dies ... computer scientist and electronics technician. Pic search | ||1999: Jan Sloot dies ... computer scientist and electronics technician. Pic search. | ||
||1925: Astronomer and academic Tom Gehrels dies. Gehrels pioneered the first photometric system of asteroids in the 1950s, and wavelength dependence of polarization of stars and planets in the 1960s. Pic (cool). | |||
||2013: Emik Avakian dies ... inventor, disabled assistance. Pic. | ||2013: Emik Avakian dies ... inventor, disabled assistance. Pic. | ||
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1732: Astronomer, freemason, and writer Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande born. As a lecturer and writer Lalande will help popularize astronomy. His planetary tables will be the best available up to the end of the 18th century.
1801: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons makes his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovers another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.
1812: Physicist and academic Petrus Leonardus Rijke born. He will explore the physics of electricity, and be known for the Rijke tube (which turns heat into sound, by creating a self-amplifying standing wave).
1931: Physicist and academic Tullio Regge born. He and G. Ponzano will develop a quantum version of Regge calculus in three space-time dimensions now known as the Ponzano-Regge model; this will be the first of a whole series of state sum models for quantum gravity known as spin foam models.
1956: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for five hundred thousand dollars in charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1958: EDSAC, the first practical electronic digital stored-program computer, is shut down, having been superseded by EDSAC 2.
1963: Telstar becomes the world's first communications satellite capable of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Signed first edition of Spiral 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence, demands emancipation from copyright law.