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||1920: Rolf Huisgen born ... chemist and academic. Alive March 2019. Pic.
||1920: Rolf Huisgen born ... chemist and academic. Alive March 2019. Pic.


||1920: Iosif Vorovich born ... mathematician and engineer.
||1920: Iosif Vorovich born ... mathematician and engineer. Vorovich specialized in continuum mechanics and the theory of elasticity; his main works deal with mathematical problems of continuum mechanics, the nonlinear theory of shells, problems of stress concentration and thick plates, and mixed problems in the theory of elasticity. Pic search yes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif_Vorovich


||1923: Lloyd Conover born ... chemist and inventor.
||1923: Lloyd Conover born ... chemist and inventor.
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||1928: John Forbes Nash, Jr. born ... mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1928: John Forbes Nash, Jr. born ... mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1931: Kitasato Shibasaburō dies ... physician and bacteriologist. He will discover the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong in 1894, almost simultaneously with Alexandre Yersin. Pic.


||1931: Herbert Saul Wilf born ... mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. Pic.
||1931: Herbert Saul Wilf born ... mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. Pic.

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  • 1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.

    1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.

  • 1580: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius born. In 1615 he will conduct a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.

    1580: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius born. In 1615 he will conduct a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.

  • 1629: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat uses scrying engine techniques to download award-winning children's book The Unruly Submarine.

    1629: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat uses scrying engine techniques to download award-winning children's book The Unruly Submarine.

  • 1773: Polymath and physician Thomas Young born. Young will make notable scientific contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology.

    1773: Polymath and physician Thomas Young born. Young will make notable scientific contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology.

  • 1831: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell born. His discoveries will help usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.

    1831: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell born. His discoveries will help usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.

  • 1854: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons born. He will invent the compound steam turbine, and work on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

    1854: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons born. He will invent the compound steam turbine, and work on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.

  • 1946: Celebrated children's book The Unruly Submarine wins Caldecott Medal.

    1946: Celebrated children's book The Unruly Submarine wins Caldecott Medal.

  • 1947: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes critical review of The Unruly Submarine, calls the award-winning children's book "a prelude to McCarthyism."

    1947: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes critical review of The Unruly Submarine, calls the award-winning children's book "a prelude to McCarthyism."

  • 2017: Signed first edition of Embassy stolen from the Louvre in a daring broad daylight raid by agents of the Forbidden Ratio.

    2017: Signed first edition of Embassy stolen from the Louvre in a daring broad daylight raid by agents of the Forbidden Ratio.

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