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||1919: Magnus Wenninger born ... mathematician who worked on constructing polyhedron models, and wrote the first book on their construction. Pic. | ||1919: Magnus Wenninger born ... mathematician who worked on constructing polyhedron models, and wrote the first book on their construction. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1925: John Pople born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1926: Harry Houdini dies ... magician and stuntman. | ||1926: Harry Houdini dies ... magician and stuntman. | ||
||1847: Charles Loring Jackson dies ... the first significant organic chemist in the United States. He brought organic chemistry to the United States from Germany and educated a generation of American organic chemists. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Charles+Loring+Jackson | |||
||1935: Ronald Graham born ... mathematician and theorist. (Alive.) Pic. | ||1935: Ronald Graham born ... mathematician and theorist. (Alive.) Pic. | ||
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1815: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass born. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".
1847: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris born. He will be a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
2017: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Escapes Hydrolab reveals fifteen terabytes of encrypted data.
2018: Creature declared Image of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
