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||1919: Frank Piasecki born ... engineer and pilot ... helicopters | ||1919: Frank Piasecki born ... engineer and pilot ... helicopters | ||
||1920: Marcel-Paul Schützenberger born .. mathematician and academic | ||1920: Marcel-Paul Schützenberger born .. mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||1926: Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit. | ||1926: Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit. Pic. | ||
||1930: Paul Appell dies ... mathematician and Rector of the University of Paris. The concept of Appell polynomials is named after him. Pic | ||1930: Paul Appell dies ... mathematician and Rector of the University of Paris. The concept of Appell polynomials is named after him. Pic. | ||
||1932: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate | ||1932: Pierre-Gilles de Gennes born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1940: Pierre-Ernest Weiss dies ... physicist specialized in magnetism. He developed the domain theory of ferromagnetism in 1907. Weiss domains and the Weiss magneton are named after him. Weiss also developed the molecular or mean field theory, which is often called Weiss-mean-field theory, that lead to the discovery of the Curie-Weiss law. Alongside Auguste Picard, Pierre Weiss is considered one of the first discoverers of the magnetocaloric effect in 1917. Pierre Weiss made several experimental discoveries that led to the development of the strongest electromagnets of the beginning of the 20th century. Pic. | |||
||1941: William Albert Noyes born ... analytical and organic chemist. He made pioneering determinations of atomic weights. Pic. | ||1941: William Albert Noyes born ... analytical and organic chemist. He made pioneering determinations of atomic weights. Pic. | ||
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1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. He made astronomical observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
1635: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard dies. He design and built calculating machines, and invented techniques for producing improved maps.
1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's astronomical observations to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1646: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter Evangelista Torricelli his "barometer of the indivisibles", which uses quantum pressure to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.
1676: Isaac Newton summarized the state of development of his method of fluxions and power series in the "Epistola posterior," which he sent to Oldenburg to transmit to Leibniz.
1861: The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed.
2015: Steganographic analysis of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.