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File: | File:Leonardo_da_Vinci_in_flight.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci|1488: Polymath [[Leonardo da Vinci]] publishes groundbreaking treatise on applications of the [[Gnomon algorithm]] principle to powered flight. | ||
File:Leonardo by Meizi.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|1519: Polymath [[Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|Leonardo da Vinci]] dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. | File:Leonardo by Meizi.jpg|link=Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|1519: Polymath [[Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|Leonardo da Vinci]] dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. | ||
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||1843 – Elijah McCoy, Canadian-American engineer (d. 1929) | ||1843 – Elijah McCoy, Canadian-American engineer (d. 1929) | ||
||Elijah J. McCoy (b. 1844) was a Canadian-American inventor and engineer who was notable for his 57 U.S. patents, most having to do with the lubrication of steam engines. | ||Elijah J. McCoy (b. 1844) was a Canadian-American inventor and engineer who was notable for his 57 U.S. patents, most having to do with the lubrication of steam engines. | ||
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||Sir John Carew Eccles AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAA (d. 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. | ||Sir John Carew Eccles AC FRS FRACP FRSNZ FAA (d. 2 May 1997) was an Australian neurophysiologist and philosopher who won the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the synapse. He shared the prize with Andrew Huxley and Alan Lloyd Hodgkin. | ||
||2002 | File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte|2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system. | ||
||2008 – Izold Pustõlnik, Ukrainian-Estonian astronomer and academic (b. 1938) | ||2008 – Izold Pustõlnik, Ukrainian-Estonian astronomer and academic (b. 1938) | ||
||2012 – Akira Tonomura, Japanese physicist, author, and academic (b. 1942) | ||2012 – Akira Tonomura, Japanese physicist, author, and academic (b. 1942). No pic. | ||
|File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|2017: Art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]] discovers cache of previously unknown [[Leonardo da Vinci (nonfiction)|da Vinci]] manuscripts. | |||
File: | File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' stolen from the Museum of Modern Art by criminal agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]]. | ||
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Revision as of 20:16, 30 April 2018
1488: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci publishes groundbreaking treatise on applications of the Gnomon algorithm principle to powered flight.
1519: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
1779: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler publishes treatise on mathematical terminology and notation for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson born.
1986: Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.
2018: Signed first edition of Green Spiral 9 stolen from the Museum of Modern Art by criminal agents of the Forbidden Ratio.