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File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] dies. He had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians. | File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] dies. He had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians. | ||
||1886 | ||1886: Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall. | ||
||1898 | File:Émile Zola.jpg|link=Émile Zola (nonfiction)|1898: [[Émile Zola (nonfiction)|Émile Zola]] is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus]]. | ||
||Derrick Henry Lehmer | ||1905: Derrick Henry Lehmer born ... mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer's peripatetic career as a number theorist, with he and his wife taking numerous types of work in the United States and abroad to support themselves during the Great Depression, fortuitously brought him into the center of research into early electronic computing. Pic. | ||
||George Michael Volkoff | ||1914: George Michael Volkoff born ... physicist and academic who helped, with J. Robert Oppenheimer, predict the existence of neutron stars before they were discovered. Pic. | ||
||1914: Robert Joseph Huebner born ... virologist whose theory that certain genes, which he called oncogenes, are involved in cancer focused researchers' attention on finding them. His investigations paved the way for the discovery of viral causes of cancers and several other serious diseases and for the development of a number of vaccines and treatments. Pic: http://www.edubilla.com/award/national-medal-of-science/robert-huebner/ | |||
||Jean-Gaston Darboux (d. 23 February 1917) was a French mathematician. | ||Jean-Gaston Darboux (d. 23 February 1917) was a French mathematician. | ||
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1583: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin born.
1742: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi uses Gnomon algorithm functions to translate Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy into Italian.
1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss dies. He had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
1898: Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
1927: German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1940: ENIAC program accidentally generates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1941: Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1963: Mathematician, information engineer, and crime-fighter Claude Shannon publishes new theory of entropy which reveals new approaches to the detection and prevent of crimes against mathematical constants.