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||1900: Herbert Alois Wagner born ... scientist who developed numerous innovations in the fields of aerodynamics, aircraft structures and guided weapons. He is most famous for Wagner's function describing unsteady lift on wings and developing the Henschel Hs 293 glide bomb. Pic. | ||1900: Herbert Alois Wagner born ... scientist who developed numerous innovations in the fields of aerodynamics, aircraft structures and guided weapons. He is most famous for Wagner's function describing unsteady lift on wings and developing the Henschel Hs 293 glide bomb. Pic. | ||
||1903: Bertha Swirles | ||1903: Physicist and academic Bertha Swirles born ... carried out research on quantum theory. Pic. | ||
||1904: Uno Lamm born ... electrical engineer and inventor. | ||1904: Uno Lamm born ... electrical engineer and inventor ... sometimes called "The Father of High Voltage Direct Current" power transmission. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=uno+lamm | ||
||1905: Bodo von Borries born ... physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=bodo+von+borries | ||1905: Bodo von Borries born ... physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=bodo+von+borries | ||
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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.
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.
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.
2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.