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||Sir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster (b. 12 September 1851) was a German-born British physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. Pic. | ||Sir Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster (b. 12 September 1851) was a German-born British physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. Pic. | ||
||Peter Mark Roget (b. 18 January 1779 – 12 September 1869) was a British physician, natural theologian and lexicographer. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (Roget's Thesaurus), a classified collection of related words. Pic. | |||
||1894 – Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Argentinian-English mathematician, biochemist and philosopher (d. 1976) | ||1894 – Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Argentinian-English mathematician, biochemist and philosopher (d. 1976) | ||
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||1897 – Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956) | ||1897 – Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956) | ||
||Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel (b. 12 September 1877) was a German mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device. | ||Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel (b. 12 September 1877) was a German mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device. | ||
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File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic. | File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic. | ||
||Ernesto Cesàro ( 12 September 1906) was an Italian mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. pic | ||Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa (d. September 12, 1900) was an American physician. | ||
||Ernesto Cesàro (d. 12 September 1906) was an Italian mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. pic | |||
||Désiré André (d. September 12, 1917) was a French mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations. | ||Désiré André (d. September 12, 1917) was a French mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations. | ||
Revision as of 12:33, 1 April 2018
1900: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.
1932: American physicist and crime-fighter Arthur Compton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on the Compton effect, use the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1933: Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
2017: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden wins Pulitzer Prize.