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||1932 – Walter Gilbert, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate | ||1932 – Walter Gilbert, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate | ||
||1934: Thomas Muir dies ... mathematician, remembered as an authority on determinants. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Muir_Mathematician.jpg | |||
||Thomas William Hungerford (b. March 21, 1936) was an American mathematician who worked in algebra and mathematics education. Pic. | ||Thomas William Hungerford (b. March 21, 1936) was an American mathematician who worked in algebra and mathematics education. Pic. | ||
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1768: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier born. He will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
1882: Mark Twain admits to experiencing great fear during his famous interview with Wallace War-Heels.
1884: Mathematician George David Birkhoff born. He will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics of his generation.
1901: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Nikola Tesla predicts that mathematician George David Birkhoff will be "one of the great crime fighters of his generation."
1924: Physicist Harry Lehmann born. He will contribute to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
1963: Film rights to Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press sell for nearly a million dollars.
1965: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
