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File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1884: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] born. He will make record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he will study Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invent of the first bathyscaphe. | File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1884: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] born. He will make record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he will study Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invent of the first bathyscaphe. | ||
File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|185: Space pilot and alleged time-traveller [[Henrietta Bolt]] predicts that [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] will "grow up to reach amazing heights, then go on to reach amazing depths." | |||
||1886 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic (d. 1976) | ||1886 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic (d. 1976) | ||
||Joseph-Émile Barbier (d. 1889) was a French astronomer and mathematician, | ||Joseph-Émile Barbier (d. 1889) was a French astronomer and mathematician, known for Barbier's theorem on the perimeter of curves of constant width. | ||
||Alfredo Capelli (d. 28 January 1910) was an Italian mathematician who discovered Capelli's identity. | ||Alfredo Capelli (d. 28 January 1910) was an Italian mathematician who discovered Capelli's identity. | ||
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||Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, DBE, FRS (b. 28 January 1903) was a British crystallographer who proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate the structure of hexamethylbenzene. She was the first to use Fourier spectral methods while solving the structure of hexachlorobenzene in 1931. | ||Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, DBE, FRS (b. 28 January 1903) was a British crystallographer who proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate the structure of hexamethylbenzene. She was the first to use Fourier spectral methods while solving the structure of hexachlorobenzene in 1931. | ||
File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1910: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] correlates with rise in [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1910: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] correlates with rise in [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1922 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993) | ||1922 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993) | ||
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1540: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.
1855: Geologist Sekiya Seikei born. He will be one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake.
1883: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla invents method of converting alternating current (AC) into Gnomon algorithm functions, revealing new techniques for preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1884: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard born. He will make record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he will study Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invent of the first bathyscaphe.
185: Space pilot and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt predicts that Auguste Piccard will "grow up to reach amazing heights, then go on to reach amazing depths."
1950: Mathematician, theorist, and academic Nikolai Luzin dies. He contributed to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.
1961: Brainiac Explains lecture series spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.
1962: Ranger 3 space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
1988: Physicist Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.
2002: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil used to cure capacitor plague for the first time.