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||Adolph-Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich (b. 15 July 1906) was a Soviet historian of mathematics, leading expert in medieval mathematics of the East and the work of Leonhard Euler. Pic.
||Adolph-Andrei Pavlovich Yushkevich (b. 15 July 1906) was a Soviet historian of mathematics, leading expert in medieval mathematics of the East and the work of Leonhard Euler. Pic.


||Henryk Zygalski (b. 15 July 1908) was a Polish mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma ciphers before and during World War II. Pic.
||1908: Henryk Zygalski born ... mathematician and cryptologist who worked at breaking German Enigma ciphers before and during World War II. Pic.


||Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir ForMemRS (b. July 15, 1909) was a Dutch physicist best known for his research on the two-fluid model of superconductors (together with C. J. Gorter) in 1934 and the Casimir effect (together with D. Polder) in 1948.
||1909: Hendrik Brugt Gerhard Casimir born ... physicist best known for his research on the two-fluid model of superconductors (together with C. J. Gorter) in 1934 and the Casimir effect (together with D. Polder) in 1948.


||Tibor Gallai (born 15 July 1912) was a Hungarian mathematician. He worked in combinatorics, especially in graph theory
||1912: Tibor Gallai born... mathematician. He worked in combinatorics, especially in graph theory. Pic: http://tudosnaptar.kfki.hu/historia/egyen.php?namenev=gallai


||1915 – Albert Ghiorso, American chemist and academic (d. 2010)
||1915: Albert Ghiorso born ... chemist and academic.


||1918 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
||1918: Bertram Brockhouse born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1919 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852) Hermann Emil Louis Fischer FRS FRSE FCS (9 October 1852 – 15 July 1919) was a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He also discovered the Fischer esterification. He developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic way of drawing asymmetric carbon atoms.  
||1919: Hermann Emil Fischer dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ...  discovered the Fischer esterification. He developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic way of drawing asymmetric carbon atoms.  


||Robert Bruce Merrifield (b. July 15, 1921) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis. Pic.
||1921: Robert Bruce Merrifield born ... biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis. Pic.


||1922 – Leon M. Lederman, American physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
||1922: Leon M. Lederman born ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1926 – Raymond Gosling, English physicist and academic (d. 2015)
||1926: Raymond Gosling born ... physicist and academic.


||1928 – Carl Woese, American microbiologist and biophysicist (d. 2012)
||1928: Carl Woese born ... microbiologist and biophysicist.


||1930 – Stephen Smale, American mathematician and computer scientist
||1930: Stephen Smale born ... American mathematician and computer scientist (Alive Aug. 2018)


||1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
||1955: Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.


||Nina Karlovna Bari (d. July 15, 1961) was a Soviet mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series.
||1961: Nina Karlovna Bari died ... mathematician known for her work on trigonometric series.


||1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.
||1975 – Space Race: Apollo–Soyuz Test Project features the dual launch of an Apollo spacecraft and a Soyuz spacecraft on the first joint Soviet-United States human-crewed flight. It was both the last launch of an Apollo spacecraft, and the Saturn family of rockets.

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  • 998: Mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī dies. His Almagest was widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death.

    998: Mathematician and astronomer Abū al-Wafā' Būzjānī dies. His Almagest was widely read by medieval Arabic astronomers in the centuries after his death.

  • 1188: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1188: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1573: Architect Inigo Jones born. He will be one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.

    1573: Architect Inigo Jones born. He will be one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.

  • 1848: Engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher Vilfredo Pareto born. He will apply mathematics to economic analysis, asserting that the distribution of incomes and wealth in society is not random and that a consistent pattern appears throughout history, in all parts of the world and in all societies.

    1848: Engineer, sociologist, economist, political scientist, and philosopher Vilfredo Pareto born. He will apply mathematics to economic analysis, asserting that the distribution of incomes and wealth in society is not random and that a consistent pattern appears throughout history, in all parts of the world and in all societies.

  • 1864: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" Wallace War-Heels defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat.

    1864: Adventurer and alleged time-travelling "Pirate of the Prairies" Wallace War-Heels defeats Baron Zersetzung in single combat.

  • 1865: Mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger born. He will contribute to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.

    1865: Mathematician Wilhelm Wirtinger born. He will contribute to complex analysis, geometry, algebra, number theory, Lie groups and knot theory.

  • 1866: Social activist and alleged superhero The Governess chastises math criminals, shames them into returning stolen digits.

    1866: Social activist and alleged superhero The Governess chastises math criminals, shames them into returning stolen digits.

  • 2013: Computer scientist and academic John T. Riedl dies. He was a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems.

    2013: Computer scientist and academic John T. Riedl dies. He was a founder of the field of recommender systems, social computing, and interactive intelligent user interface systems.

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