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||1627 Robert Boyle, Irish-English chemist and physicist (d. 1691)
||1627: Robert Boyle born ... chemist and physicist.


||1726 Guillaume Delisle, French cartographer (b. 1675)
||1726: Guillaume Delisle dies ... cartographer.


File:Joseph-Louis Lagrange.jpg|link=Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|1736: Mathematician and astronomer [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|Joseph-Louis Lagrange]] born. He will make significant contributions to the fields of analysis, number theory, and both classical and celestial mechanics.
File:Joseph-Louis Lagrange.jpg|link=Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|1736: Mathematician and astronomer [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|Joseph-Louis Lagrange]] born. He will make significant contributions to the fields of analysis, number theory, and both classical and celestial mechanics.


||1742 Edmond Halley, English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist (b. 1656). Pic.
||1742: Edmond Halley dies ... astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist.


||1755 Paolo Mascagni, Italian physician and anatomist (d. 1815)
||1755: Paolo Mascagni born ... physician and anatomist.


File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1793: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which simulate the flight of [[Petrel (nonfiction)|petrels]]. He will later forecast the emergence of the [[SOEP]] cartel.
File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1793: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which simulate the flight of [[Petrel (nonfiction)|petrels]]. He will later forecast the emergence of the [[SOEP]] cartel.


||1794 François-Vincent Raspail, French chemist, physician, physiologist, and lawyer (d. 1878)
||1794: François-Vincent Raspail born ... chemist, physician, physiologist, and lawyer.


File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1812: Inventor, physician, chemist [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] born. His work will have a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that will maintain 'the scientific do not patent'.
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1812: Inventor, physician, chemist [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] born. His work will have a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that will maintain 'the scientific do not patent'.
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File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1842: [[Wallace War-Heels]] rescues runaway stagecoach, then robs the occupants of one-third of their money and possessions.
File:Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Wallace War-Heels|1842: [[Wallace War-Heels]] rescues runaway stagecoach, then robs the occupants of one-third of their money and possessions.


||Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz (b. 1843) was a German mathematician, known for his work in complex analysis.
||1843: Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz born ... mathematician, known for his work in complex analysis.


File:Edward Davy.jpg|link=Edward Davy (nonfiction)|1853: Physician, scientist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Edward Davy (nonfiction)|Edward Davy]] receives a patent for his new electric relay, which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].  
File:Edward Davy.jpg|link=Edward Davy (nonfiction)|1853: Physician, scientist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Edward Davy (nonfiction)|Edward Davy]] receives a patent for his new electric relay, which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].  


||August Otto Föppl (b. 25 January 1854) was a professor of Technical Mechanics and Graphical Statics at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He is credited with introducing the Föppl–Klammer theory and the Föppl–von Kármán equations (large deflection of elastic plates).
||1854: August Otto Föppl born ... engineer credited with introducing the Föppl–Klammer theory and the Föppl–von Kármán equations (large deflection of elastic plates.


File:Arthur Cayley.jpg|link=Arthur Cayley (nonfiction)|1855: Mathematician crime-fighter [[Arthur Cayley (nonfiction)|Arthur Cayley]] uses the concept of a group in the modern way, as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws, to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Arthur Cayley.jpg|link=Arthur Cayley (nonfiction)|1855: Mathematician crime-fighter [[Arthur Cayley (nonfiction)|Arthur Cayley]] uses the concept of a group in the modern way, as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws, to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||Mikimoto Kōkichi (b. 25 January 1858) was a Japanese entrepreneur who is credited with creating the first cultured pearl and subsequently starting the cultured pearl industry with the establishment of his luxury pearl company Mikimoto. Pic.
||1858: Mikimoto Kōkichi born ... entrepreneur who is credited with creating the first cultured pearl and subsequently starting the cultured pearl industry with the establishment of his luxury pearl company Mikimoto. Pic.


||1878 – Ernst Alexanderson, Swedish-American engineer (d. 1975) TV
||1870: Niels Fabian Helge von Koch born ... mathematician who gave his name to the famous fractal known as the Koch snowflake, one of the earliest fractal curves to be described. Pic.


||1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
||1878: Ernst Alexanderson born ... engineer ... TV.


||Emil Weyr (d. January 25, 1894) was an Austrian mathematician, known for his numerous publications on geometry.
||1881: Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
 
||1894: Emil Weyr dies ... mathematician, known for his numerous publications on geometry.


||1905: born: Leo Zippin ... mathematician. He is best known for solving Hilbert's Fifth Problem with Deane Montgomery and Andrew M. Gleason in 1952. Pic.
||1905: born: Leo Zippin ... mathematician. He is best known for solving Hilbert's Fifth Problem with Deane Montgomery and Andrew M. Gleason in 1952. Pic.


||1908 Mikhail Chigorin, Russian chess player and theoretician (b. 1850)
||1908: Mikhail Chigorin dies ... chess player and theoretician.


File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1915: [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]] inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1915: [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]] inaugurates U.S. transcontinental telephone service, speaking from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.


||1917 Ilya Prigogine, Russian-Belgian chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
||1917: Ilya Prigogine born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1921 Samuel T. Cohen, American physicist and academic (d. 2010)
||1921: Samuel T. Cohen dies ... physicist and academic.


||1923 Arvid Carlsson, Swedish pharmacologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate
||1923: Arvid Carlsson born ... pharmacologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate, dopamine.  Pic.


||1935: Alfred Loewy dies ... mathematician who worked on representation theory. Loewy rings, Loewy length, Loewy decomposition and Loewy series are named after him. Pic: http://www.learn-math.info/mathematicians/historyDetail.htm?id=Loewy
||1935: Alfred Loewy dies ... mathematician who worked on representation theory. Loewy rings, Loewy length, Loewy decomposition and Loewy series are named after him. Pic: http://www.learn-math.info/mathematicians/historyDetail.htm?id=Loewy

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