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File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1861: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] born. He will be a  defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1861: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] born. He will be a  defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[John Venn]] invents new type of [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata]].


||1873: Hans von Euler-Chelpin born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1873: Hans von Euler-Chelpin born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.

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  • 1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics".

    1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics".

  • 1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to defeat the Forbidden Ratio in single combat.

    1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to defeat the Forbidden Ratio in single combat.

  • 1739: Mathematician, astronomer and poet Eustachio Manfredi dies. Manfredi's observations of asteroids provided early evidence, albeit unsought, of the revolution of the Earth around the Sun.

    1739: Mathematician, astronomer and poet Eustachio Manfredi dies. Manfredi's observations of asteroids provided early evidence, albeit unsought, of the revolution of the Earth around the Sun.

  • 1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.

    1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.

  • 1997: Physicist and APTO field engineer Chien-Shiung Wu discovers a new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use the not-conservation of parity to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1997: Physicist and APTO field engineer Chien-Shiung Wu discovers a new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use the not-conservation of parity to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1946: ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

    1946: ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

  • 1959: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson dies. He won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.

    1959: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson dies. He won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.

  • 1988: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.

    1988: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.

  • 2011: The Stardust spacecraft flies by comet Tempel 1.

    2011: The Stardust spacecraft flies by comet Tempel 1.

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