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||1885 – Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic (d. 1959) | ||1885 – Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic (d. 1959) | ||
||1887 | File:Erwin Schrödinger (1933).jpg|link=Erwin Schrödinger (nonfiction)|1887: Physicist and academic [[Erwin Schrödinger (nonfiction)|Erwin Schrödinger]] born. He will be awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics for the formulation of the Schrödinger equation. | ||
||Prof Hubert Anson Newton FRS HFRSE LLD (d. 12 August 1896), usually cited as H. A. Newton, was an American astronomer and mathematician, noted for his research on meteors. | ||Prof Hubert Anson Newton FRS HFRSE LLD (d. 12 August 1896), usually cited as H. A. Newton, was an American astronomer and mathematician, noted for his research on meteors. | ||
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1827: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake dies.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley arrives at Charleston, South Carolina by rail.
1887: Physicist and academic Erwin Schrödinger born. He will be awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics for the formulation of the Schrödinger equation.
1937: Astronomer and crime-fighter George Ellery Hale publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on magnetic fields in sunspots, which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1989: Physicist and inventor William Shockley dies. He shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the point-contact transistor.
1996: Astronomer and crime-fighter Vera Rubin computes the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, makes contact with AESOP.
2005: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the twelfth anniversary of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launch.
2017: AESOP re-broadcasts 1996 conversation with astronomer and crime-fighter Vera Rubin about the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion.