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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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||1915: Clara Immerwahr dies ... chemist. Pic.
||1915: Clara Immerwahr dies ... chemist. Pic.


||1922: Cyrus Levinthal born ... molecular biologist. While at MIT Levinthal made significant discoveries in molecular genetics relating to the mechanisms of DNA replication, the relationship between genes and proteins, and the nature of messenger RNA. At Columbia Levinthal applied computers to the 3-dimensional imaging of biological structures such as proteins. He is considered the father of computer graphical display of protein structure. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=cyrus+levinthal
||1922: Cyrus Levinthal born ... molecular biologist. While at MIT Levinthal made significant discoveries in molecular genetics relating to the mechanisms of DNA replication, the relationship between genes and proteins, and the nature of messenger RNA. At Columbia Levinthal applied computers to the 3-dimensional imaging of biological structures such as proteins. He is considered the father of computer graphical display of protein structure. Pic search.
 
||1922: George Claude Pimentel born ... inventor of the chemical laser. He also developed the technique of matrix isolation in low-temperature chemistry. In theoretical chemistry, he proposed the three-center four-electron bond which is now accepted as the best simple model of hypervalent molecules. In the late 1960s, Pimentel led the University of California team that designed the infrared spectrometer for the Mars Mariner 6 and 7 missions that analyzed the surface and atmosphere of Mars. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+C.+Pimentel


File:Margaret Eliza Maltby circa 1908.jpg|link=Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|1933: Physicist and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|Margaret Eliza Maltby]] uses the measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions to defeat rogue mathematician [[Anarchimedes]] in single combat.
||1922: George Claude Pimentel born ... inventor of the chemical laser. He also developed the technique of matrix isolation in low-temperature chemistry. In theoretical chemistry, he proposed the three-center four-electron bond which is now accepted as the best simple model of hypervalent molecules. In the late 1960s, Pimentel led the University of California team that designed the infrared spectrometer for the Mars Mariner 6 and 7 missions that analyzed the surface and atmosphere of Mars. Pic search.


||1964: Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the American aircraft carrier USS Card while it is docked at Saigon. A North Vietnamese frogman had placed a bomb on the ship. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later.
||1964: Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the American aircraft carrier USS Card while it is docked at Saigon. A North Vietnamese frogman had placed a bomb on the ship. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later.


||1965: Paul dies born ... psychologist ... He developed a model of human movement, Fitts's law, based on rapid, aimed movement, which went on to become one of the most highly successful and well studied mathematical models of human motion. By focusing his attention on human factors during his time as Lieutenant Colonel in the US Air Force, Fitts became known as one of the pioneers in improving aviation safety. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=paul+fitts
||1965: Paul dies born ... psychologist ... He developed a model of human movement, Fitts's law, based on rapid, aimed movement, which went on to become one of the most highly successful and well studied mathematical models of human motion. By focusing his attention on human factors during his time as Lieutenant Colonel in the US Air Force, Fitts became known as one of the pioneers in improving aviation safety. Pic search.


||1967: Robert Daniel Carmichael dies ... mathematician ... known for his research in what are now called the Carmichael numbers (a subset of Fermat pseudoprimes, numbers satisfying properties of primes described by Fermat's Little Theorem although they are not primes), Carmichael's totient function conjecture, Carmichael's theorem, and the Carmichael function, all significant in number theory and in the study of the prime numbers. Pic: http://matematica.unibocconi.it/autore/robert-daniel-carmichael
||1967: Robert Daniel Carmichael dies ... mathematician ... known for his research in what are now called the Carmichael numbers (a subset of Fermat pseudoprimes, numbers satisfying properties of primes described by Fermat's Little Theorem although they are not primes), Carmichael's totient function conjecture, Carmichael's theorem, and the Carmichael function, all significant in number theory and in the study of the prime numbers. Pic: http://matematica.unibocconi.it/autore/robert-daniel-carmichael
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File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]]: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]]: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|1986: Public servant and alleged time-traveller [[The Custodian]] says he is "sick and tired of mopping up [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl]], among other things."


||1997: John Carew Eccles dies ... 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. Pic (cool tech).
||1997: John Carew Eccles dies ... 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. Pic (cool tech).
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||2012: Akira Tonomura dies ... physicist, author, and academic. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Akira-Tonomura
||2012: Akira Tonomura dies ... physicist, author, and academic. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Akira-Tonomura
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]].


File:Superprophylacticmeasuresuntilvaccinedoses.png|link=Superprophylacticmeasuresuntilvaccinedoses (nonfiction)|2020: "[[Superprophylacticmeasuresuntilvaccinedoses (nonfiction)|Superprophylacticmeasuresuntilvaccinedoses]]" conceived.
File:Superprophylacticmeasuresuntilvaccinedoses.png|link=Superprophylacticmeasuresuntilvaccinedoses (nonfiction)|2020: "[[Superprophylacticmeasuresuntilvaccinedoses (nonfiction)|Superprophylacticmeasuresuntilvaccinedoses]]" conceived.


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  • 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.

    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.

  • 1602: Scholar and polymath Athanasius Kircher born. He will publish some 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.

    1602: Scholar and polymath Athanasius Kircher born. He will publish some 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.

  • 1759: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop publishes an analysis of Gnomon algorithm techniques which will inspire future generations of scientists to construct the ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") project.

    1759: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop publishes an analysis of Gnomon algorithm techniques which will inspire future generations of scientists to construct the ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") project.

  • 1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson born.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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