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||1865: Pieter Zeeman born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1865: Pieter Zeeman born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1866: Nikolai | ||1866: Nikolai Brashman dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1873: Michele Angelo Besso born ... engineer. Besso was a close friend of Albert Einstein. who called Besso "the best sounding board in Europe" for scientific ideas. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=michele+angelo+besso | ||1873: Michele Angelo Besso born ... engineer. Besso was a close friend of Albert Einstein. who called Besso "the best sounding board in Europe" for scientific ideas. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=michele+angelo+besso | ||
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986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.
1828: Mathematician Karl Mikhailovich Peterson born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space.
1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
1981: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov publishes study on applications of quantum electronics research in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.