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||1803: Nicolas Baudin dies ... explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer. Pic.
||1803: Nicolas Baudin dies ... explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer. Pic.
File:Orcagna scrying engine.jpg|link=Orcagna scrying engine|1838: The [[Orcagna scrying engine]], under contract to the [[House of Malevecchio]], downloads [[Abū Sahl al-Qūhī (nonfiction)|Abū Sahl al-Qūhī]]'s [[Perfect Compass]] protocol. [[House of Malevecchio|Malevecchio]] will attempt to monopolize the protocol, but five years later the French will announce ''Compas Parfait''; within fifty years, all of Christendom will have similar systems.


||1846: Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr. born ... astronomer. He is best remembered for his research on what is today known as the Chandler wobble. His research on this spanned nearly three decades. Pic.
||1846: Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr. born ... astronomer. He is best remembered for his research on what is today known as the Chandler wobble. His research on this spanned nearly three decades. Pic.
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||1874: Heinrich Matthias Konen born ... physicist who specialized in spectroscopy. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?biw=1175&bih=668&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=FTCAW9PkLaufjwSgn6XoAg&q=Heinrich+Konen&oq=Heinrich+Konen&gs_l=img.3...3908464.3908464.0.3908896.1.1.0.0.0.0.290.290.2-1.1.0....0...1c.2.64.img..0.0.0....0.4KnrtIlysyg#imgrc=76oBzXZb-gljNM:
||1874: Heinrich Matthias Konen born ... physicist who specialized in spectroscopy. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?biw=1175&bih=668&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=FTCAW9PkLaufjwSgn6XoAg&q=Heinrich+Konen&oq=Heinrich+Konen&gs_l=img.3...3908464.3908464.0.3908896.1.1.0.0.0.0.290.290.2-1.1.0....0...1c.2.64.img..0.0.0....0.4KnrtIlysyg#imgrc=76oBzXZb-gljNM:
||1893: Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt born ... biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and discovering many of the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle and the molecular basis of muscle contraction.


||1915: Rita Harriet Harradence born ... biochemist who pioneered the synthesis of penicillamine and steroids, and the stereochemistry of molecules involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Pic.
||1915: Rita Harriet Harradence born ... biochemist who pioneered the synthesis of penicillamine and steroids, and the stereochemistry of molecules involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Pic.
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||1925: Alexander Friedmann born ... physicist and mathematician. Pic.
||1925: Alexander Friedmann born ... physicist and mathematician. Pic.
||1926: Robert Mortimer Ellis born - mathematician, specializing in topological dynamics. Pic search.


||1931: E. C. George Sudarshan born ... theoretical physicist and academic. Pic.
||1931: E. C. George Sudarshan born ... theoretical physicist and academic. Pic.
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||1955: A Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
||1955: A Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
File:Karl Popper.jpg|link=Karl Popper (nonfiction)|1958: Philosopher, academic, and crime-fighter [[Karl Popper (nonfiction)|Karl Popper]] publishes new theory of empirical falsification based on experimental scrutinization using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques. Popper's theory receives accolades, influencing a generation of [[Mathematician|crime-fighting mathematicians]].


||1959: The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
||1959: The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
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File:Gordon Gould.jpg|link=Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|2005: Physicist and academic [[Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|Gordon Gould]] dies. He invented and named the laser.
File:Gordon Gould.jpg|link=Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|2005: Physicist and academic [[Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|Gordon Gould]] dies. He invented and named the laser.
Spinning_Thistle.jpg|link=Spinning Thistle (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Spinning Thistle (nonfiction)|Spinning Thistle]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].


||2016: Gabriele Amorth dies ... priest and exorcist. Pic search.
||2016: Gabriele Amorth dies ... priest and exorcist. Pic search.


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  • 1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.

    1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.

  • 2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.

    2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.

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