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||1900: Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||1900: Ivan Mikheevich Pervushin dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||
||1909: Kôdi Husimi born ... theoretical physicist who served as the president of the Science Council of Japan.[1] Husimi trees in graph theory, the Husimi Q representation in quantum mechanics, and Husimi's theorem in the mathematics of paper folding are named after him. No pic online (except diagrams from papers). | |||
||1924: Robert Simpson Woodward dies ... physicist and mathematician. | ||1924: Robert Simpson Woodward dies ... physicist and mathematician. | ||
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1868: Astronomer and journalist George Ellery Hale born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.
1869: Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Astonishing Illustration of the Year.
1895: Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley dies. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1896: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky born. He will work with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
1963: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov uses new theory of quantum electronics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.