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||John Ronald Womersley (b. 20 June 1907) was a British mathematician and computer scientist who made important contributions to computer development, and hemodynamics.[1] Nowadays he is principally remembered for his contribution to blood flow, fluid dynamics and the eponymous Womersley number, a dimensionless parameter characterising unsteady flow. | ||John Ronald Womersley (b. 20 June 1907) was a British mathematician and computer scientist who made important contributions to computer development, and hemodynamics.[1] Nowadays he is principally remembered for his contribution to blood flow, fluid dynamics and the eponymous Womersley number, a dimensionless parameter characterising unsteady flow. | ||
||Markus Eduard Fierz (b. 20 June 1912) was a Swiss physicist, particularly remembered for his formulation of spin-statistics theorem, and for his contributions to the development of quantum theory, particle physics, and statistical mechanics. He was awarded the Max Planck Medal in 1979 and the Albert Einstein Medal in 1989 for all his work. | |||
||1917 – Helena Rasiowa, Austrian-Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1994) | ||1917 – Helena Rasiowa, Austrian-Polish mathematician and academic (d. 1994) | ||
Revision as of 13:02, 29 November 2017
1875: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer dies. He designed and invented submarines.
1876: Adventurer and alleged "Pirate of the Prairie" Wallace War-Heels says that he has "offered no man violence", but admits that he has "responded to violence with greater violence, many times."
1877: Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
2010: Unlicensed Extract of Radium factory accidentally releases self-sustaining colony of transdimensional corporations.