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|File:Adriaan Metius.jpg|link=Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|1634:  Mathematician and astronomer [[Adriaan Metius (nonfiction)|Adriaan Metius]] develops new type of precision astronomical instruments incorporating [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], which he uses to preview and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Luigi Galvani.jpg|link=Luigi Galvani (nonfiction)|1737: Physician and physicist [[Luigi Galvani (nonfiction)|Luigi Galvani]] born. In 1780, he will discover that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.
File:Luigi Galvani.jpg|link=Luigi Galvani (nonfiction)|1737: Physician and physicist [[Luigi Galvani (nonfiction)|Luigi Galvani]] born. In 1780, he will discover that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.


||1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.
||1789: William Cranch Bond born ... astronomer, and the first director of Harvard College Observatory. Pic.


||1892 – Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
||1839: John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph. Pic.


File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]."
||1841: Augustin Pyramus de Candolle born ... botanist, mycologist, and academic. Pic.


||1920 – Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and physicist (d. 1993)
||1852: John Henry Poynting born ... physicist. He was the developer and eponym of the Poynting vector, which describes the direction and magnitude of electromagnetic energy flow and is used in the Poynting theorem, a statement about energy conservation for electric and magnetic fields. Pic.


||1922 – Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
||1854: Baron Yamakawa Kenjirō ...Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who went on to become a noted physicist, university president, and author of several histories of the Boshin War. Pic.


|File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1934: [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel device]] hijacked, used to commit new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1860: Frank Morley born ... mathematician, known mostly for his teaching and research in the fields of algebra and geometry. Pic.


||1941 – Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist, created the C programming language (d. 2011)
||1883: Victor Puiseux dies ... mathematician and astronomer. Puiseux series are named after him, as is in part the Bertrand–Diquet–Puiseux theorem. Pic.


|File:Exponential-growth-diagram.svg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1942: "Conspiracy theories of about [[crimes against mathematical constants]] have yet to prove their case."
||1888: Wallace Akers born ... chemist and industrialist. Beginning his academic career at Oxford he specialized in physical chemistry. During the Second World War, he was the director of the Tube Alloys project, a clandestine programme aiming to research and develop British atomic weapons capabilities Pic.
 
||1892: Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard. Pic.
 
||1893: Friedrich Traugott Kützing dies ... pharmacist, botanist and phycologist ... diatoms v. desmids. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Friedrich+Traugott+Kützing
 
||1912: Physicist Heinrich Johann Welker born.  Welker invented the "transistron", a transistor made at Westinghouse independently of the first successful transistor made at Bell Laboratories. He did fundamental work in III-V compound semiconductors, and paved the way for microwave semiconductor elements and laser diodes.
 
||1920: Feng Kang born ... mathematician and physicist. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Feng+Kang+mathematician
 
||1922: Hans Georg Dehmelt born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1941: Dennis Ritchie born ... computer scientist, created the C programming language. Pic.


File:First computer bug.jpg|link=Software defect (nonfiction)|1947: First case of a [[Software defect (nonfiction)|computer bug]] being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
File:First computer bug.jpg|link=Software defect (nonfiction)|1947: First case of a [[Software defect (nonfiction)|computer bug]] being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
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File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1975: Viking program: [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] launched. Following a 333-day cruise to Mars, the Viking orbiter will begin returning global images of Mars.  
File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1975: Viking program: [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] launched. Following a 333-day cruise to Mars, the Viking orbiter will begin returning global images of Mars.  


|File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1984: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], based on combinatorics and probability theory, which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1985: Paul Flory dies ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1995: Reinhard Furrer born ... physicist and astronaut. Pic.
 
||2002: Geoffrey Dummer dies ... electronics engineer and consultant who is credited as being the first person to conceptualise and build a prototype of the integrated circuit, commonly called the microchip, in the late-1940s and early 1950s. Pic.
 
File:Edward Teller 1958.jpg|link=Edward Teller (nonfiction)|2003: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Edward Teller (nonfiction)|Edward Teller]] dies. He is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", although he did not care for the epithet.


||1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910)
||2004: The Ryanggang explosion ... North Korea in the northern province of Ryanggang. The nature and cause of the suspected explosion is the subject of speculation. No neighboring nations have claimed any detection of radioactive isotopes characteristic of a nuclear explosion. Pic.


||Geoffrey William Arnold Dummer, MBE (1945), C.Eng., IEE Premium Award, FIEEE, MIEE, USA Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm (25 February 1909 – 9 September 2002) was an English electronics engineer and consultant who is credited as being the first person to conceptualise and build a prototype of the integrated circuit, commonly called the microchip, in the late-1940s and early 1950s.  
||2010: Bent Larsen dies ... chess player and author. Pic (cool).


||2003 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1908)
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the forty-second anniversary of the launch of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] spacecraft.


File:The_Custodian_2.jpg|link=The Custodian|2017: [[The Custodian]] tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.
File:Embassy.jpg|link=Embassy|2018: Updated version of ''[[Embassy]]'' published. "The old version was so dark, it was barely visible. This version is much more to my taste," says artist Karl Jones.  


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