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||1877: Louis Renault born ... engineer and businessman, co-founded Renault. Pic. | ||1877: Louis Renault born ... engineer and businessman, co-founded Renault. Pic. | ||
||1886: Max Bergmann born ... biochemist. He was the first to use the Carboxybenzyl protecting group for the synthesis of oligopeptides. Pic search | ||1886: Max Bergmann born ... biochemist. He was the first to use the Carboxybenzyl protecting group for the synthesis of oligopeptides. Pic search. | ||
||1889: Enrico Bompiani born ... mathematician, specializing in differential geometry. Pic. | ||1889: Enrico Bompiani born ... mathematician, specializing in differential geometry. Pic. | ||
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||1893: Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert born ... astronomer of Belgian origin. He will be a pioneer of solar research, specializing in spectroscopy and the study of stellar atmospheres. Minnaert was also interested in bubbles and musical nature of the sounds made by running water (see Minnaert resonance). Pic. | ||1893: Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert born ... astronomer of Belgian origin. He will be a pioneer of solar research, specializing in spectroscopy and the study of stellar atmospheres. Minnaert was also interested in bubbles and musical nature of the sounds made by running water (see Minnaert resonance). Pic. | ||
||1897: Lincoln LaPaz born ... astronomer and academic, meteor study pioneer. Pic search | ||1897: Lincoln LaPaz born ... astronomer and academic, meteor study pioneer. Pic search. | ||
|| | ||1903: Chemist and academic Stephen Brunauer born. He resigned from his position with the U.S. Navy during the McCarthy era, when he found it impossible to refute anonymous charges that he was disloyal to the U.S. Pic search. | ||
||1908: Jean Effel born ... painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist. Pic search | ||1905: Harold Stanley Ruse born ... mathematician, noteworthy for the development of the concept of locally harmonic spaces. Pic search. | ||
||1908: Jean Effel born ... painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist. Pic search. | |||
||1908: Jacques Herbrand born ... mathematician and philosopher. He worked in mathematical logic and class field theory. He introduced recursive functions. Herbrand's theorem refers to either of two completely different theorems. One is a result from his doctoral thesis in proof theory, and the other one half of the Herbrand–Ribet theorem. Pic. | ||1908: Jacques Herbrand born ... mathematician and philosopher. He worked in mathematical logic and class field theory. He introduced recursive functions. Herbrand's theorem refers to either of two completely different theorems. One is a result from his doctoral thesis in proof theory, and the other one half of the Herbrand–Ribet theorem. Pic. | ||
||1909: Sigmund Rascher dies ... German physician - SS deadly experiments. Pic search | ||1909: Sigmund Rascher dies ... German physician - SS deadly experiments. Pic search. | ||
File:Hans Hermes.jpg|link=Hans Hermes (nonfiction)|1912: Mathematician and logician [[Hans Hermes (nonfiction)|Hans Hermes]] born. Hermes will contribute to the foundations of mathematical logic, and pioneer the concept of the Turing machine as a measure of predictability. | File:Hans Hermes.jpg|link=Hans Hermes (nonfiction)|1912: Mathematician and logician [[Hans Hermes (nonfiction)|Hans Hermes]] born. Hermes will contribute to the foundations of mathematical logic, and pioneer the concept of the Turing machine as a measure of predictability. | ||
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||1928: Edwin Albert Power born ... physicist and an emeritus professor of applied mathematics. He made several contributions to the field of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics (NRQED). Pic. | ||1928: Edwin Albert Power born ... physicist and an emeritus professor of applied mathematics. He made several contributions to the field of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics (NRQED). Pic. | ||
||1929: Mathematician and academic Alexei Kostrikin born. He will specialize in algebra and algebraic geometry, making important contributions to the Burnside problem; he also wrote widely used textbooks. Pic search | ||1929: Mathematician and academic Alexei Kostrikin born. He will specialize in algebra and algebraic geometry, making important contributions to the Burnside problem; he also wrote widely used textbooks. Pic search. | ||
File:Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg|link=Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1934: Mathematician, philosopher, and private detective [[Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Jan Łukasiewicz]] uses the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle to defeat the [[Forbidden Ratio]] in single combat. | File:Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg|link=Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1934: Mathematician, philosopher, and private detective [[Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Jan Łukasiewicz]] uses the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle to defeat the [[Forbidden Ratio]] in single combat. | ||
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||1974: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union. Pic. | ||1974: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union. Pic. | ||
||1977: Ebenezer Cunningham dies ... mathematician who is remembered for his research and exposition at the dawn of special relativity. Pic search | ||1977: Ebenezer Cunningham dies ... mathematician who is remembered for his research and exposition at the dawn of special relativity. Pic search. | ||
||1980: Carl Einar Hille dies ... mathematics professor and scholar. Hille authored or coauthored twelve books mathematical books and a number of mathematical papers. Pic. | ||1980: Carl Einar Hille dies ... mathematics professor and scholar. Hille authored or coauthored twelve books mathematical books and a number of mathematical papers. Pic. | ||
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||1994: Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting ''The Scream''. | ||1994: Four thieves break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edvard Munch's iconic painting ''The Scream''. | ||
||1996: Lawrence Christian Biedenharn, Jr. dies ... theoretical nuclear physicist and mathematical physicist, a leading expert on applications of Lie group theory to physics. Biedenharn studied at MIT with an interruption in World War II from 1942 to 1946 as a lieutenant in the Signal Corps in the Pacific theater, where in 1946 he was stationed in Tokyo for a year as a radio officer. He received his bachelor's degree in absentia from MIT. Pic search | ||1996: Lawrence Christian Biedenharn, Jr. dies ... theoretical nuclear physicist and mathematical physicist, a leading expert on applications of Lie group theory to physics. Biedenharn studied at MIT with an interruption in World War II from 1942 to 1946 as a lieutenant in the Signal Corps in the Pacific theater, where in 1946 he was stationed in Tokyo for a year as a radio officer. He received his bachelor's degree in absentia from MIT. Pic search. | ||
||2000: Charles M. Schulz dies ... cartoonist, created Peanuts. Pic. | ||2000: Charles M. Schulz dies ... cartoonist, created Peanuts. Pic. | ||
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||2001: NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. | ||2001: NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. | ||
||2009: Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak dies ... mathematician and academic known for her work in balanced incomplete block designs, bivariegated graphs, graceful graphs, graph equations and frequency partitions. Pic search | ||2009: Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak dies ... mathematician and academic known for her work in balanced incomplete block designs, bivariegated graphs, graceful graphs, graph equations and frequency partitions. Pic search. | ||
||2015: John Piña Craven dies ... scientist who was known for his involvement with Bayesian search theory and the recovery of lost objects at sea. Pic: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/john-p-craven-scientist-who-directed-top-secret-navy-projects-dies-at-90/2015/02/21/50083a20-b935-11e4-a200-c008a01a6692_story.html?utm_term=.78975b0baaa4 | ||2015: John Piña Craven dies ... scientist who was known for his involvement with Bayesian search theory and the recovery of lost objects at sea. Pic: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/john-p-craven-scientist-who-directed-top-secret-navy-projects-dies-at-90/2015/02/21/50083a20-b935-11e4-a200-c008a01a6692_story.html?utm_term=.78975b0baaa4 | ||
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File:Green Tangle.jpg|link=Green Tangle (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Green Tangle (nonfiction)|Green Tangle]]'' unexpectedly reveals a previously unknown family of Gnomon algorithm functions which "prove that if it's Winter on February 12, then Spring will be here soon." | File:Green Tangle.jpg|link=Green Tangle (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Green Tangle (nonfiction)|Green Tangle]]'' unexpectedly reveals a previously unknown family of Gnomon algorithm functions which "prove that if it's Winter on February 12, then Spring will be here soon." | ||
||2017: Ren Xinmin dies ... rocket scientist. Pic search | ||2017: Ren Xinmin dies ... rocket scientist. Pic search. | ||
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1767: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent a cross-linked set of crimes against physics, astronomy, and mathematics.
1912: Mathematician and logician Hans Hermes born. Hermes will contribute to the foundations of mathematical logic, and pioneer the concept of the Turing machine as a measure of predictability.
1914: Mathematician and academic Hanna Neumann born. Neumann will contribute to group theory, co-authoring the important paper Wreath products and varieties of groups (with her husband Bernhard and eldest son Peter), and authoring the influential book Varieties of Groups (1967).
1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind dies. Dedekind made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.
1934: Mathematician, philosopher, and private detective Jan Łukasiewicz uses the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle to defeat the Forbidden Ratio in single combat.
1935: Physicist and engineer Robert Van de Graaff receives a patent for his Electrostatic Generator design (U.S. No. 1,991,236), able to generate direct-current voltages much higher than the 700,000-V which was the state of the art at the time using other methods.
1946: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive meets goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the original event.
1947: Chemist and academic Moses Gomberg dies. Gomberg identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.
1959: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged criminal mastermind Skip Digits uses high-energy literature techniques to record his hit song "Klepsydra".
1960: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson dies. Anderson made important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.
1992: Mathematician, physicist, and APTO field instructor Nikolay Bogolyubov visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture which Alice Beta will later remember as "redolent of the warm atmosphere, politeness, and kindness which characterize the Bogolyubov Approach."
1961: Spacecraft Venera 1 launched. Venera will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).
1983: High-energy literature research project accidentally releases new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1994: Mathematical physicist Charles Critchfield dies. Critchfield worked on the Manhattan Project, designing and testing the "Urchin" neutron initiator which provided the burst of neutrons that kick-started the nuclear detonation of the Fat Man weapon.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Green Tangle unexpectedly reveals a previously unknown family of Gnomon algorithm functions which "prove that if it's Winter on February 12, then Spring will be here soon."