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||1941: Stephen Jay Gould born ... paleontologist, biologist, and author. Pic.
||1941: Stephen Jay Gould born ... paleontologist, biologist, and author. Pic.


||1956: Astronomer Robert Julius Trumpler dies. He will observe that the brightness of the more distant open clusters is lower than expected, and the stars appear more red, a phenomenon caused by interstellar dust absorbing interstellar light.
||1956: Astronomer Robert Julius Trumpler dies. He will observe that the brightness of the more distant open clusters is lower than expected, and the stars appear more red, a phenomenon caused by interstellar dust absorbing interstellar light. Pic.  


||1966: Emil Julius Gumbel dies ... mathematician and statistician. Gumbel was instrumental in the development of extreme value theory, along with Leonard Tippett and Ronald Fisher. He also derived and analyzed the probability distribution that is now known as the Gumbel distribution in his honor. Pic search.
||1966: Emil Julius Gumbel dies ... mathematician and statistician. Gumbel was instrumental in the development of extreme value theory, along with Leonard Tippett and Ronald Fisher. He also derived and analyzed the probability distribution that is now known as the Gumbel distribution in his honor. Pic search.

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  • 1635: Mathematician Johann Faulhaber dies. Faulhaber calculated the sums of powers of integers.

    1635: Mathematician Johann Faulhaber dies. Faulhaber calculated the sums of powers of integers.

  • 1749: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet born. She translated and commented upon on Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.

    1749: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet born. She translated and commented upon on Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.

  • 1849: Mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce born. He wil be remembered as "the father of pragmatism".

    1849: Mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce born. He wil be remembered as "the father of pragmatism".

  • 1892: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton born. He will win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, demonstrating the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.

    1892: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton born. He will win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, demonstrating the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.

  • 1975: Mathematician, computer scientist, and crime-fighter Andrzej Trybulec uses the Mizar system to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1975: Mathematician, computer scientist, and crime-fighter Andrzej Trybulec uses the Mizar system to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1976: Screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo dies. He was blacklisted for refusing testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947; while blacklisted, he won Academy Awards for two films: Roman Holiday, attributed to a front author, and The Brave One under the pseudonym Robert Rich.

    1976: Screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo dies. He was blacklisted for refusing testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947; while blacklisted, he won Academy Awards for two films: Roman Holiday, attributed to a front author, and The Brave One under the pseudonym Robert Rich.

  • 2018: Red Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2018: Red Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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