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||1883 – Karl von Terzaghi, Czech-American geologist and engineer (d. 1963)
||1883 – Karl von Terzaghi, Czech-American geologist and engineer (d. 1963)
||Charles Stark "Doc" Draper (b. October 2, 1901) was an American scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA.


||Willy Otto Oskar Ley (b. 1906) was a German-American science writer, spaceflight advocate, and historian of science who helped to popularize rocketry, spaceflight, and natural history in both Germany and the United States.
||Willy Otto Oskar Ley (b. 1906) was a German-American science writer, spaceflight advocate, and historian of science who helped to popularize rocketry, spaceflight, and natural history in both Germany and the United States.

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  • 1588: Philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.

    1588: Philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.

  • 1589: Physician, archaeologist, and crime-fighter Michele Mercati publishes study of prehistoric stone tools, including evidence of prehistoric crimes against mathematical constants.

    1589: Physician, archaeologist, and crime-fighter Michele Mercati publishes study of prehistoric stone tools, including evidence of prehistoric crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2006: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).

    2006: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).

  • 2007: Signed first edition of The Safe-Cracker provides clues which lead to the arrest and imprisonment of math criminals.

    2007: Signed first edition of The Safe-Cracker provides clues which lead to the arrest and imprisonment of math criminals.

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