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||1906: Ernst Ruska born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1906: Ernst Ruska born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1921: Piers Bohl dies ... mathematician, who worked in differential equations, topology and quasi-periodic functions. Pic: https://timenote.info/en/Piers-Bohl | |||
||1927: Ichirō Satake born ... mathematician working on algebraic groups who introduced the Satake isomorphism and Satake diagrams. He was considered an iconic figure in the theory of linear algebraic groups and symmetric spaces. Pic. | ||1927: Ichirō Satake born ... mathematician working on algebraic groups who introduced the Satake isomorphism and Satake diagrams. He was considered an iconic figure in the theory of linear algebraic groups and symmetric spaces. Pic. | ||
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1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
1763: Inventor Claude Chappe born. He will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.
1932: Enrico Fermi computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.
1956: John Brunner uses scrying engine to extract cryptographic numen from Hellscreiber transmissions.
2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
2017: Swirl is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.