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||1885: Theoretical physicist and academic Earle Hesse Kennard born. Much of his research for the Navy focused on hydrodynamics and elasticity, in particular on the theory of potential flow, the physics of underwater explosions and structural vibrations. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Earle+Hesse+Kennard | ||1885: Theoretical physicist and academic Earle Hesse Kennard born. Much of his research for the Navy focused on hydrodynamics and elasticity, in particular on the theory of potential flow, the physics of underwater explosions and structural vibrations. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Earle+Hesse+Kennard | ||
||1891: Howard Florey born ... pathologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1907: Pedro Arrupe SJ born ... Jesuit priest who served as the twenty-eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1965–83). Stationed as novice master outside Hiroshima in 1945, he used his medical background as a first responder to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Pic online: https://www.google.com/search?q=pedro+arrupe | ||1907: Pedro Arrupe SJ born ... Jesuit priest who served as the twenty-eighth Superior General of the Society of Jesus (1965–83). Stationed as novice master outside Hiroshima in 1945, he used his medical background as a first responder to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Pic online: https://www.google.com/search?q=pedro+arrupe |
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1716: Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz dies. He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and designed and built mechanical calculators.
1971: Mathematician and academic Hanna Neumann dies. She contributed to group theory, co-authoring the important paper Wreath products and varieties of groups (with her husband Bernhard and eldest son Peter), and authoring the influential book Varieties of Groups.
1971: Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars. It will map 70% of the surface, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Two Creatures 2 unexpectedly reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates forty-sixth anniversary of Mariner 9 entering orbit around Mars.