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||Milton Stanley Livingston (d. August 25, 1986) was an American accelerator physicist, co-inventor of the cyclotron with Ernest Lawrence, and co-discoverer with Ernest Courant and Hartland Snyder of the strong focusing principle, which allowed development of modern large-scale particle accelerators.
||Milton Stanley Livingston (d. August 25, 1986) was an American accelerator physicist, co-inventor of the cyclotron with Ernest Lawrence, and co-discoverer with Ernest Courant and Hartland Snyder of the strong focusing principle, which allowed development of modern large-scale particle accelerators.
||Jean-Louis Verdier (d. 25 August 1989) was a French mathematician who worked, under the guidance of Alexander Grothendieck, on derived categories and Verdier duality. Pic.


||1989 – The Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings.
||1989 – The Voyager 2 spacecraft made its closest approach to Neptune and provided definitive proof of the existence of the planet's rings.

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  • 1609: Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.

    1609: Galileo Galilei demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers.

  • 1699: Mathematician and mechanician Charles Étienne Louis Camus born. He will be the author of Cours de mathématiques (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.

    1699: Mathematician and mechanician Charles Étienne Louis Camus born. He will be the author of Cours de mathématiques (Paris, 1766), along with a number of essays on mathematical and mechanical subjects.

  • 1818: Mechanical soldier Clock Head receives several patents for an improvements to steam engines.

    1818: Mechanical soldier Clock Head receives several patents for an improvements to steam engines.

  • 1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.

    1819: inventor, engineer, and chemist James Watt dies. He made major improvements to the steam engine.

  • 1933: Clock Head 2 publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1933: Clock Head 2 publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1934: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the public at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

    1934: Inventor Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his electronic television system to the public at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.

  • 2012: Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause to become the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space and study the interstellar medium.

    2012: Voyager 1 crossed the heliopause to become the first spacecraft to enter interstellar space and study the interstellar medium.

  • 2016: Polymath George Spencer-Brown dies. He wrote Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".

    2016: Polymath George Spencer-Brown dies. He wrote Laws of Form, calling it the "primary algebra" and the "calculus of indications".

  • 2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Time-Surfing 2 sells for two and a half million dollars.

    2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Time-Surfing 2 sells for two and a half million dollars.

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