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||1768: Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann born ... mineralogist and geologist. Pic. | ||1768: Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann born ... mineralogist and geologist. Pic. | ||
||1810: John Frederick Bateman born ... civil engineer whose work formed the basis of the modern United Kingdom water supply industry. For more than 50 years from 1835 he designed and constructed reservoirs and waterworks ... "the greatest dam-builder of his generation". Pic. | |||
||1814: Eugène Charles Catalan born ... mathematician who worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics. His notable contributions included discovering a periodic minimal surface in the space {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{3}} \mathbb {R} ^{3}; stating the famous Catalan's conjecture, which was eventually proved in 2002; and, introducing the Catalan numbers to solve a combinatorial problem. Pic. | ||1814: Eugène Charles Catalan born ... mathematician who worked on continued fractions, descriptive geometry, number theory and combinatorics. His notable contributions included discovering a periodic minimal surface in the space {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{3}} \mathbb {R} ^{3}; stating the famous Catalan's conjecture, which was eventually proved in 2002; and, introducing the Catalan numbers to solve a combinatorial problem. Pic. | ||
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||1924: Anthony Dryden Marshall born ... American CIA officer and diplomat. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Anthony+Dryden+Marshall+CIA | ||1924: Anthony Dryden Marshall born ... American CIA officer and diplomat. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Anthony+Dryden+Marshall+CIA | ||
||1925: John Cocke born ... computer scientist and engineer ... "the father of RISC architecture." Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Cocke+RISC | |||
||1926: Vladimir Steklov dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | ||1926: Vladimir Steklov dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | ||
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File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and academic [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] dies. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi. | File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and academic [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] dies. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi. | ||
File:Mariner 9.jpg|link=Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|1971: NASA launches the [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] spacecraft. It will map 70% of the surface of Mars, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface. | File:Mariner 9.jpg|link=Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|1971: NASA launches the [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]] spacecraft. It will map 70% of the surface of Mars, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface. | ||
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||2011: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic (cool tech). | ||2011: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic (cool tech). | ||
||2012: Andrew Huxley born ... physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the forty-sixth anniversary of the launch of [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]]. | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the forty-sixth anniversary of the launch of [[Mariner 9 (nonfiction)|Mariner 9]]. | ||
File:Dusk (30 May 2024) 20240530_211231.jpg|link=Dusk (30 May 2024)|2024: '''[[Dusk (30 May 2024)|Dusk]]'''. | |||
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1423: Mathematician and astronomer Georg von Peuerbach born. He will be remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum.
1739: Jacques de Vaucanson demonstrates his Digesting Duck automaton for the first time.
1946: Physicist Louis Slotin dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1964: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard dies. He conceived the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patented the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.
1971: NASA launches the Mariner 9 spacecraft. It will map 70% of the surface of Mars, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-sixth anniversary of the launch of Mariner 9.
2024: Dusk.