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||1908: Elizabeth Alexander born ... geologist, academic, and physicist. Pic. | ||1908: Elizabeth Alexander born ... geologist, academic, and physicist. Pic. | ||
||1910: Charles Alfred Coulson born ... applied mathematician, theoretical chemist and religious author. His major scientific work was as a pioneer of the application of the quantum theory of valency to problems of molecular structure, dynamics and reactivity. Pic: http://www.quantum-chemistry-history.com/Coulson1.htm | |||
||1911: Trygve Haavelmo born ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1911: Trygve Haavelmo born ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter John Pell publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1887: Mathematician George Pólya born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
1973: Talk show host Peter Giblets broadcasts an episode of Peter Giblets Hour in New Minneapolis, Canada; his guests include Niles Cartouchian and Pierre Trudeau.
2007: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist Akiva Yaglom dies. He contributed to statistical turbulence theory and random process theory.
2016: Signed first edition of Three Kings 3 stolen from the New MIA in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Killer Poke gang.