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||1660: Frans van Schooten dies ... mathematician and academic. No DOB. Pic.
||1660: Frans van Schooten dies ... mathematician and academic. No DOB. Pic.


||1675: Humphry Ditton born ... mathematician and philosopher. No pics online: https://www.google.com/search?q=Humphry+Ditton+mathematician
||1675: Humphry Ditton born ... mathematician and philosopher. No pics online.


File:John Mudge.jpg|link=John Mudge (nonfiction)|1777: Physician and engineer [[John Mudge (nonfiction)|John Mudge]] elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his 'Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve'.
File:John Mudge.jpg|link=John Mudge (nonfiction)|1777: Physician and engineer [[John Mudge (nonfiction)|John Mudge]] elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his 'Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve'.
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||1780: Henri Braconnot born ... chemist and pharmacist. Pic.
||1780: Henri Braconnot born ... chemist and pharmacist. Pic.


||1781: John Walker born ... invented the friction match. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=john+walker+inventor
||1781: John Walker born ... invented the friction match. Pic search.


||1794: Johann Heinrich von Mädler born ... astronomer and selenographer. Pic.
||1794: Johann Heinrich von Mädler born ... astronomer and selenographer. Pic.


||1823: John H. Balsley born ... carpenter and inventor. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=john+h.+balsley
||1823: John H. Balsley born ... carpenter and inventor. Pic search.


||1829: Humphry Davy dies ... chemist and academic. Pic.
||1829: Humphry Davy dies ... chemist and academic. Pic.
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||2005: Mathematician Kazimierz Urbanik dies. He founded the journal Probability and Mathematical Statistics and served as rector of the University of Wrocław. Pic.
||2005: Mathematician Kazimierz Urbanik dies. He founded the journal Probability and Mathematical Statistics and served as rector of the University of Wrocław. Pic.
||2012: Engineer and computer scientist J. Halcombe "Hal" Laning Jr. dies.  Laning invented an algebraic compiler called George (also known as the Laning and Zierler system after the authors of the published paper) that ran on the MIT Whirlwind, the first real-time computer. Pic search.


||2014: Peter Glaser dies ... scientist and engineer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=peter+glaser
||2014: Peter Glaser dies ... scientist and engineer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=peter+glaser
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||2014: Walter Jakob Gehring dies ... biologist and academic. Gehring researched ''Drosophila'' genetics and development, particularly the analysis of cell determination in the embryo and transdetermination of imaginal discs. Pic.
||2014: Walter Jakob Gehring dies ... biologist and academic. Gehring researched ''Drosophila'' genetics and development, particularly the analysis of cell determination in the embryo and transdetermination of imaginal discs. Pic.


||2015: George Roger Sell dies ... mathematician, specializing in differential equations, dynamical systems, and applications to fluid dynamics, climate modeling, control systems. U of MN. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+Roger+Sell
||2015: George Roger Sell dies ... mathematician, specializing in differential equations, dynamical systems, and applications to fluid dynamics, climate modeling, control systems. U of MN. Pic search.


File:Blue Flower.jpg|link=Blue Flower (nonfiction)|2016: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Blue Flower (nonfiction)|Blue Flower]]'' reveals "at least eleven, possibly twelve" previously unknown shades of [[Blue (nonfiction)|blue]].
File:Blue Flower.jpg|link=Blue Flower (nonfiction)|2016: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Blue Flower (nonfiction)|Blue Flower]]'' reveals "at least eleven, possibly twelve" previously unknown shades of [[Blue (nonfiction)|blue]].


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Revision as of 16:56, 31 March 2020

  • 1777: Physician and engineer John Mudge elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his 'Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve'.

    1777: Physician and engineer John Mudge elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, and in the same year was awarded the Copley medal for his 'Directions for making the best Composition for the Metals for reflecting Telescopes; together with a Description of the Process for Grinding, Polishing, and giving the great Speculum the true Parabolic Curve'.

  • 1917: Politician John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, born.

    1917: Politician John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, born.

  • 1919: Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin view a solar eclipse as a test of Einstein's theory of general relativity.

    1919: Arthur Eddington and Andrew Claude de la Cherois Crommelin view a solar eclipse as a test of Einstein's theory of general relativity.

  • 2016: Chromatographic analysis of Blue Flower reveals "at least eleven, possibly twelve" previously unknown shades of blue.

    2016: Chromatographic analysis of Blue Flower reveals "at least eleven, possibly twelve" previously unknown shades of blue.

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