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||Sir Joseph Larmor FRS FRSE DCL LLD (d. 1942) was a Northern Irish physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. | ||Sir Joseph Larmor FRS FRSE DCL LLD (d. 1942) was a Northern Irish physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. | ||
||1950 | ||1949: György Elekes born ... mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in Combinatorial geometry and Combinatorial set theory. He may be best known for his work in the field that would eventually be called Additive Combinatorics. Particularly notable was his "ingenious" application of the Szemerédi–Trotter theorem to improve the best known lower bound for the sum-product problem.[3] He also proved that any polynomial-time algorithm approximating the volume of convex bodies must have a multiplicative error, and the error grows exponentially on the dimension. Pic: https://adamsheffer.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/incidences-lower-bounds-part-2/ | ||
||1950: A barge containing munitions destined for Pakistan explodes in the harbor at South Amboy, New Jersey, devastating the city. | |||
File:Jean Bartik.jpg|link=Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|1954: Computer programmer [[Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|Jean Bartik]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Jean Bartik.jpg|link=Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|1954: Computer programmer [[Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|Jean Bartik]] discovers new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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File:Venera 1.jpg|link=Venera 1 (nonfiction)|1961: [[Venera 1 (nonfiction)|Venera 1]] becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data). | File:Venera 1.jpg|link=Venera 1 (nonfiction)|1961: [[Venera 1 (nonfiction)|Venera 1]] becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data). | ||
||1962 | ||1962: A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday". | ||
File:Mars 2 and 3.jpg|link=Mars 2 (nonfiction)|1971: The Soviet Union launches the [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2 spacecraft]]. The spacecraft will reach Mars, but the landing module will crash after failing to deploy its parachute. | File:Mars 2 and 3.jpg|link=Mars 2 (nonfiction)|1971: The Soviet Union launches the [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2 spacecraft]]. The spacecraft will reach Mars, but the landing module will crash after failing to deploy its parachute. | ||
||2009 | ||2009: Robert F. Furchgott dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||Herbert Frank York | ||2009: Herbert Frank York dies ... nuclear physicist. He held numerous research and administrative positions at various United States government and educational institutes. Pic. | ||
||Dale Dehaven Myers | ||2015: Dale Dehaven Myers dies ... aerospace engineer who was Deputy Administrator of NASA. Pic. | ||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' remembers the forty-sixth anniversary of the [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2]] launch, observing a moment of silence for the failure of the mission. | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' remembers the forty-sixth anniversary of the [[Mars 2 (nonfiction)|Mars 2]] launch, observing a moment of silence for the failure of the mission. | ||
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1743: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin publishes the design of a mercury thermometer based on the Celsius scale. The "Thermometer of Lyon" will be built by the craftsman Pierre Casati using this design.
1883: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels stolen. It will later be recovered by Niles Cartouchian and returned to the Smithsonian Museum.
1903: Bacteriologist Ruth Ella Moore born. She will publish work on tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans.
1954: Computer programmer Jean Bartik discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
1971: The Soviet Union launches the Mars 2 spacecraft. The spacecraft will reach Mars, but the landing module will crash after failing to deploy its parachute.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars remembers the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 launch, observing a moment of silence for the failure of the mission.