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||1857: Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger dies ... chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics. Pic.
||1857: Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger dies ... chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics. Pic.
||1859: Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev born ... mathematician and author. Pic.


File:John Dalton by Charles Turner.jpg|link=John Dalton (nonfiction)|1766: Chemist, meteorologist, and physicist [[John Dalton (nonfiction)|John Dalton]] born. He will propose the modern atomic theory, and do research in color blindness.
File:John Dalton by Charles Turner.jpg|link=John Dalton (nonfiction)|1766: Chemist, meteorologist, and physicist [[John Dalton (nonfiction)|John Dalton]] born. He will propose the modern atomic theory, and do research in color blindness.
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||1895: Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger born ... German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Center. Pic.
||1895: Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger born ... German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Center. Pic.
File:Birkeland terrella spiral nebula.jpg|link=Terrella (nonfiction)|1901: Aurora researcher and [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist Kristian Birkeland demonstrates an experimental [[Terrella (nonfiction)|Terrella]] which detects and prevents [[Crimes against astronomical constants|crimes against the ionosphere]], usually categorized as an astronomy crime, but also widely seen as a [[Crimes against light|crime against light]].


||1902: Frederick Abel dies ... chemist and engineer ... explosives, smokeless powder, electrical fuses. Pic.
||1902: Frederick Abel dies ... chemist and engineer ... explosives, smokeless powder, electrical fuses. Pic.
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||1956: Witold Hurewicz, dies ... mathematician. No pic.
||1956: Witold Hurewicz, dies ... mathematician. No pic.
||1956: Alex Raymond dies ... cartoonist, creator of Flash Gordon. Pic.


||1962: The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
||1962: The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
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||2017: Lotfi Zadeh dies ... mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/science/lotfi-zadeh-father-of-mathematical-fuzzy-logic-dies-at-96.html
||2017: Lotfi Zadeh dies ... mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/science/lotfi-zadeh-father-of-mathematical-fuzzy-logic-dies-at-96.html


File:Eye Foot.jpg|link=Eye Foot (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Eye Foot (nonfiction)|Eye Foot]]'' "at least five hundred and twelve kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions.
||2020: Mathematician Vaughan Frederick Randal Jones dies - known for his work on von Neumann algebras and knot polynomials.  


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  • 1635: Mathematician and astronomer Adriaan Metius dies. He manufactured precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.

    1635: Mathematician and astronomer Adriaan Metius dies. He manufactured precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.

  • 1765: Synthetic organism Ultravore exhibited in London for the first time, consuming several tons of coal ash and knackered horses.

    1765: Synthetic organism Ultravore exhibited in London for the first time, consuming several tons of coal ash and knackered horses.

  • 1732: Physicist and academic Johan Carl Wilcke born. He will invent the electrophorus, and calculate the latent heat of ice.

    1732: Physicist and academic Johan Carl Wilcke born. He will invent the electrophorus, and calculate the latent heat of ice.

  • 1766: Chemist, meteorologist, and physicist John Dalton born. He will propose the modern atomic theory, and do research in color blindness.

    1766: Chemist, meteorologist, and physicist John Dalton born. He will propose the modern atomic theory, and do research in color blindness.

  • 1803: British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.

    1803: British scientist John Dalton begins using symbols to represent the atoms of different elements.

  • 1892: Physicist and academic Edward Victor Appleton born. Appleton will make pioneering contributions to radiophysics, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his seminal work proving the existence of the ionosphere during experiments carried out in 1924.

    1892: Physicist and academic Edward Victor Appleton born. Appleton will make pioneering contributions to radiophysics, winning the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1947 for his seminal work proving the existence of the ionosphere during experiments carried out in 1924.

  • 2007: Writer Madeleine L'Engle dies. She wrote the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.

    2007: Writer Madeleine L'Engle dies. She wrote the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.

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