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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. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Wilson+Morgan | ||1994: William Wilson Morgan dies ... astronomer and astrophysicist. The principal theme in Dr. Morgan's work was stellar and galaxy classification. He is also known for helping prove the existence of spiral arms in our galaxy. 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. Pic. | ||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. | ||
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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.
