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||1974: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz dies ... mathematician and aerospace engineer. Pic. | ||1974: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz dies ... mathematician and aerospace engineer. Pic. | ||
||1983: Albert Claude dies ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1983: Albert Claude dies ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. 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. | ||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. | ||
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||1997: Alfred Hershey born ... biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1997: Alfred Hershey born ... biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1998: José Enrique Moyal dies ... physicist and engineer. | ||1998: José Enrique Moyal dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | ||
File:Pond At Dawn.jpg|link=Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|2009: ''[[Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|Pond At Dawn]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Pond At Dawn.jpg|link=Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|2009: ''[[Pond At Dawn (nonfiction)|Pond At Dawn]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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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.
2009: Pond At Dawn voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.