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||1919 – Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic (d. 1971) | ||1919 – Vikram Sarabhai, Indian physicist and academic (d. 1971) | ||
||August Otto Föppl (d. 12 August 1924) | ||Boris Isaac Korenblum (b. 12 August 1923, Odessa) was a Soviet-Israeli-American mathematician, specializing in mathematical analysis. Pic. | ||
||August Otto Föppl (d. 12 August 1924) was a professor of Technical Mechanics and Graphical Statics at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is credited with introducing the Föppl–Klammer theory and the Föppl–von Kármán equations (large deflection of elastic plates). | |||
||1925 – George Wetherill, American physicist and academic (d. 2006) | ||1925 – George Wetherill, American physicist and academic (d. 2006) | ||
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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.