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||1967: Josip Plemelj dies ... mathematician, whose main contributions were to the theory of analytic functions and the application of integral equations to potential theory. Pic.
||1967: Josip Plemelj dies ... mathematician, whose main contributions were to the theory of analytic functions and the application of integral equations to potential theory. Pic.


||1868 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801). Pic.
||1868: Julius Plücker dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic.
 
File:Georg Scheutz.jpg|link=Per Georg Scheutz (nonfiction)|1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor [[Per Georg Scheutz (nonfiction)|Per Georg Scheutz]] born.  He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.
 
||1893: Bronisław Knaster born ... mathematician. He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum. Pic.


File:Franz Ernst Neumann by Carl Steffeck 1886.jpg|link=Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|Franz Ernst Neumann]] uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent [[crimes against chemistry]].
File:Franz Ernst Neumann by Carl Steffeck 1886.jpg|link=Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|Franz Ernst Neumann]] uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent [[crimes against chemistry]].


||Bronisław Knaster (b. 22 May 1893) was a Polish mathematician. He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum. Pic.
||1903: Bertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys born ... physicist who carried out research on quantum theory.
 
||Bertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys (b. 22 May 1903) was a British physicist who carried out research on quantum theory.


||1904 – Uno Lamm, Swedish electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1989)
||1904: Uno Lamm born ... electrical engineer and inventor.


||1905 – Bodo von Borries, German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope (d. 1956)
||1905: Bodo von Borries born ... physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope.


||1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
||1906: The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".


||Anatol Rapoport (b. May 22, 1911) was a Russian-born American mathematical psychologist. He contributed to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion. Pic.
||1911: Anatol Rapoport born ... mathematical psychologist. He contributed to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion. Pic.


||1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
||1912: Herbert C. Brown born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1914: Lipman Bers born ... mathematician ... he created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. Pic: http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/riga/riga_pages/riga_stories_bers.html
||1914: Lipman Bers born ... mathematician ... he created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. Pic: http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/riga/riga_pages/riga_stories_bers.html


||1920 – Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist and academic (d. 2004)
||1920: Thomas Gold born ... astrophysicist and academic.


||1927 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
||1927: George Andrew Olah born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Rabbi Dr. Eliezer (Leon) Ehrenpreis.jpg|link=Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi [[Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis]] born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.  
File:Rabbi Dr. Eliezer (Leon) Ehrenpreis.jpg|link=Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi [[Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis]] born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.  


||Chen Jingrun (b. May 22, 1933) was a Chinese mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory.
||1933: Chen Jingrun born ... mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory.


||1936 – George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (d. 2014) LCD
||1936: George H. Heilmeier born ... engineer ... LCD.


||1942 – Ted Kaczynski, American academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber)
||1942: Ted Kaczynski born ... academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber).


||1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.
||1943: Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.


File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.
File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.


||Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel (d. 22 May 1956) was a German physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect.  
||1956: Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel dies ... physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect.  


||1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
||1968: The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores.


||1969 – Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.
||1969: Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.


||1974 – Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903)
||1974: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz dies ... mathematician and aerospace engineer.


||1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
||1983: Albert Claude dies ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Derrick Henry Lehmer (d. May 22, 1991) was an American mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer's peripatetic career as a number theorist, with he and his wife taking numerous types of work in the United States and abroad to support themselves during the Great Depression, fortuitously brought him into the center of research into early electronic computing. Pic.
||1991: Derrick Henry Lehmer dies ... mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer's peripatetic career as a number theorist, with he and his wife taking numerous types of work in the United States and abroad to support themselves during the Great Depression, fortuitously brought him into the center of research into early electronic computing. Pic.


||1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
||1997: Alfred Hershey born ... biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1998 – José Enrique Moyal, Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1910)
||1998: José Enrique Moyal dies ... physicist and engineer.


File:Martin Gardner.jpg|link=Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematics and science writer [[Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|Martin Gardner]] dies.  His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.
File:Martin Gardner.jpg|link=Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematics and science writer [[Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|Martin Gardner]] dies.  His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.
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  • 1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.

    1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.

  • 1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.

    1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.

  • 1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter Franz Ernst Neumann uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.

    1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter Franz Ernst Neumann uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.

  • 1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.

    1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.

  • 1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.

    1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.

  • 2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.

    2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.

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