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||1987: Madman Muntz dies ... engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company. | ||1987: Madman Muntz dies ... engineer and businessman, founded the Muntz Car Company. | ||
||1994: William Wilson Morgan dies ... astronomer and astrophysicist. | ||1994: William Wilson Morgan dies ... astronomer and astrophysicist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Wilson+Morgan | ||
||1999: Edwin Hewitt dies ... mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis and for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt–Savage zero–one law. | ||1999: Edwin Hewitt dies ... mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis and for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt–Savage zero–one law. Pic. | ||
||2004: SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. | ||2004: SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. | ||
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||2006: Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra. | ||2006: Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially named Nix and Hydra. | ||
||2007: John Todd dies ... professor of mathematics and a pioneer in the field of numerical analysis. | ||2007: John Todd dies ... professor of mathematics and a pioneer in the field of numerical analysis. Pic. | ||
||2013: James P. Gordon dies ... physicist and academic. | ||2013: James P. Gordon dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||2017: Jean-Pierre Kahane dies ... mathematician. He contributed to harmonic analysis. Pic. | |||
||2018: Grigory Barenblatt dies ... mathematician and academic. He will contribute to fracture mechanics, fluid and gas flows in porous media, the mechanics of a non-classical deformable solids, turbulence, and self-similarities. Pic. | ||2018: Grigory Barenblatt dies ... mathematician and academic. He will contribute to fracture mechanics, fluid and gas flows in porous media, the mechanics of a non-classical deformable solids, turbulence, and self-similarities. Pic. | ||
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1652: Architect Inigo Jones dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
1781: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
1947: Lorenz system diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson dies.
1952: Crime-fighter The Governess chastises corrupt accounting firm, compels accountants to return money embezzled from orphan's fund and personally apologize to orphans.
