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||44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. | |||
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1612: Mathematician [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] uses astrological forecasts to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1612: Mathematician [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] uses astrological forecasts to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place. | |||
||1819 – French physicist Augustin-Jean Fresnel wins a contest at the Academie des Sciences in Paris by proving that light behaves like a wave. The Fresnel integrals, still used to calculate wave patterns, silence skeptics who had backed the particle theory of Isaac Newton. | |||
||1821 – Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian physicist and chemist (d. 1895) | |||
||1860 – Waldemar Haffkine, Russian-Swiss bacteriologist and microbiologist (d. 1930) | |||
||1866 – Johan Vaaler, Norwegian inventor, invented the Paper clip (d. 1910) | |||
||Innocenzo Vincenzo Bartolomeo Luigi Carlo Manzetti (d. 15 March 1877) was an Italian inventor | |||
||1890 – Boris Delaunay, Russian mathematician and mountaineer (d. 1980) | |||
||1891 – Joseph Bazalgette, English engineer and academic (b. 1819) | |||
File:James Joseph Sylvester.jpg|link=James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and academic [[James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|James Joseph Sylvester]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics. | File:James Joseph Sylvester.jpg|link=James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and academic [[James Joseph Sylvester (nonfiction)|James Joseph Sylvester]] dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics. | ||
||1898 – Henry Bessemer, English engineer and businessman (b. 1813) | |||
File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] uses liquid helium to freeze supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]]. | File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] uses liquid helium to freeze supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]]. | ||
||1930 – Zhores Alferov, Belarusian-Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | |||
||1930 – Martin Karplus, Austrian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | |||
||1951 – John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-South African astronomer and academic (b. 1889) | |||
File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|link=Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|1962: American physicist and academic [[Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|Arthur Compton]] dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation. | File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|link=Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|1962: American physicist and academic [[Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|Arthur Compton]] dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation. | ||
File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] detects evidence of interstellar [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Venera 7.jpg|link=Venera 7 (nonfiction)|1970: Soviet spacecraft [[Venera 7 (nonfiction)|Venera 7]] detects evidence of interstellar [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1985 – The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com). | |||
||1988 – Dmitri Polyakov, Ukrainian general and spy (b. 1926) | |||
||2004 – Bill Pickering, New Zealand-American scientist and engineer (b. 1910) | |||
||2004 – John Pople, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925) | |||
||2013 – James Bonk, American chemist and academic (b. 1931) | |||
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Revision as of 13:19, 29 October 2017
1612: Mathematician Johannes Kepler uses astrological forecasts to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
1911: Physicist and crime-fighter Heike Kamerlingh Onnes uses liquid helium to freeze supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1962: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 detects evidence of interstellar crimes against mathematical constants.