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||1887: Otto Marcin Nikodym born ... mathematician. He worked in a wide range of areas, but his best-known early work was his contribution to the development of the Lebesgue–Radon–Nikodym integral (see Radon–Nikodym theorem). Pic.
||1887: Otto Marcin Nikodym born ... mathematician. He worked in a wide range of areas, but his best-known early work was his contribution to the development of the Lebesgue–Radon–Nikodym integral (see Radon–Nikodym theorem). Pic.
||1911: Joseph E. Gillis born ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to fractal sets, fluid dynamics, random walks, and pioneered the combinatorial theory of special functions of mathematical physics. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?q=joseph+gillis+mathematician


||1914: Mark Kac born ... mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. (In the end, the answer was "no", in general.) Pic.
||1914: Mark Kac born ... mathematician. His main interest was probability theory. His question, "Can one hear the shape of a drum?" set off research into spectral theory, with the idea of understanding the extent to which the spectrum allows one to read back the geometry. (In the end, the answer was "no", in general.) Pic.
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||1929: Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851) Emile Berliner (d.  August 3, 1929), originally Emil Berliner, was a German-born American inventor. He is best known for inventing the flat disc phonograph record (called a gramophone record in British English and originally also in American English) and the Gramophone.  
||1929: Emile Berliner, German-American inventor and businessman, invented the phonograph (b. 1851) Emile Berliner (d.  August 3, 1929), originally Emil Berliner, was a German-born American inventor. He is best known for inventing the flat disc phonograph record (called a gramophone record in British English and originally also in American English) and the Gramophone.  


||1030: Jenifer Haselgrove born ... physicist and computer scientist. She is most noted for her formulation of ray tracing equations in a cold magneto-plasma, now widely known in the radio science community as Haselgrove's Equations. Nopic.
||1930: Jenifer Haselgrove born ... physicist and computer scientist. She is most noted for her formulation of ray tracing equations in a cold magneto-plasma, now widely known in the radio science community as Haselgrove's Equations. Nopic.


||1936: Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.
||1936: Jesse Owens wins the 100 metre dash, defeating Ralph Metcalfe, at the Berlin Olympics.

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