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||1774 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (b. 1701) | |||
||1778 – Augustin Pyramus de Candolle, Swiss botanist, mycologist, and academic (d. 1841) | |||
||1859 – The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt. | |||
||1875 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist and engineer (d. 1953) | |||
File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1889: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to manipulate the royal family. | File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1889: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to manipulate the royal family. | ||
||1894 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker, invented the Saxophone (b. 1814) | |||
||1896 – Friedrich Hund, German physicist and academic (d. 1997) | |||
||1903 – Alexander Imich, Polish-American chemist, parapsychologist, and academic (d. 2014) | |||
File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1906: Astronomer and academic [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids. | File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1906: Astronomer and academic [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids. | ||
||1921 – Lotfi Zadeh, Iranian-American mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic (d. 2017) | |||
File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to attend virtual lecture by [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]]. | File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1923: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to attend virtual lecture by [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]]. | ||
||1925 – Christopher Zeeman, English mathematician and academic (d. 2016) | |||
||1927 – Rolf Landauer, German-American physicist and academic (d. 1999) | |||
File:Hendrik_Antoon_Lorentz.jpg|link=Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|1928: Physicist and academic [[Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|Hendrik Lorentz]] dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. | File:Hendrik_Antoon_Lorentz.jpg|link=Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|1928: Physicist and academic [[Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|Hendrik Lorentz]] dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. | ||
||Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American novelist, short story writer, and T.B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. | |||
||1945 – World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea. | |||
||1967 – Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft. | |||
File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. | File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. | ||
File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1994: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1994: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] invents new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
||2004 – Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg. | |||
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Revision as of 19:19, 3 September 2017
1889: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to manipulate the royal family.
1906: Astronomer and academic Clyde Tombaugh born. He will discover Pluto, along with many asteroids.
1923: Mathematician Karl Menger uses scrying engine techniques to attend virtual lecture by Donald Knuth.
1928: Physicist and academic Hendrik Lorentz dies. He shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect.
1974: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose dies. His work on quantum mechanics provided the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.
1994: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.