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||Edwin Ford Beckenbach (b. 18 July 1906) was an American mathematician. | ||Edwin Ford Beckenbach (b. 18 July 1906) was an American mathematician. | ||
||Sidney Darlington (b. July 18, 1906) was an electrical engineer and inventor of a transistor configuration in 1953, the Darlington pair. He advanced the state of network theory, developing the insertion-loss synthesis approach, and invented chirp radar, bombsights, and gun and rocket guidance. Pic. | |||
||1908 – Beatrice Aitchison, American mathematician, statistician, and transportation economist (d. 1997) | ||1908 – Beatrice Aitchison, American mathematician, statistician, and transportation economist (d. 1997) |
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1853: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz born. He will share the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.
1960: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions with a wide range of applications in electronic devices used to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1966: Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
1967: Engineer, pilot, and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt tells fellow astronauts that Gemini 10 "was an inspiration to us all."
1997: Geologist and astronomer Eugene Merle Shoemaker dies. Shoemaker was the first scientist to conclude that Barringer Meteor Crater in Arizona, and similar craters, were caused by meteor impact.
2017: Judge Havelock With Glass wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "a prescient study of emerging information technologies in mid-1800's America."