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||1990: Pavel Cherenkov dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1990: Pavel Cherenkov dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1993: Herbert G. MacPherson dies ... nuclear engineer and deputy director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He contributed to the design and development of nuclear reactors and in the opinion of Alvin Weinberg he was "the country's foremost expert on graphite". Pic: https://www.nap.edu/read/4779/chapter/30 | |||
||2000: Don Martin dies ... cartoonist. | ||2000: Don Martin dies ... cartoonist. | ||
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1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
2016: Violet Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.