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||1644: Jan Baptist van Helmont born ... chemist, physiologist, and physician. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry". Van Helmont is remembered today largely for his ideas on spontaneous generation, his 5-year tree experiment, and his introduction of the word "gas" (from the Greek word chaos) into the vocabulary of science. Pic. | ||1644: Jan Baptist van Helmont born ... chemist, physiologist, and physician. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry". Van Helmont is remembered today largely for his ideas on spontaneous generation, his 5-year tree experiment, and his introduction of the word "gas" (from the Greek word chaos) into the vocabulary of science. Pic. | ||
||1695: Samuel Morland born ... academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician of the 17th century, a polymath credited with early developments in relation to computing, hydraulics and steam power. No DOB. Pic. | |||
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||1991: Marcus Morton Rhoades dies ... cytogeneticist. His research on maize led to important discoveries for basic genetics and the applied science of plant breeding. He was one of the first cytogenecists to document the pre-meiotic pairing of homologous chromosomes in maize, otherwise referred as somatic pairing (Singh, 2003), and the first to document an instance of meiotic drive, a Mendelian inheritance caused by preferential segregation of certain versions of homologous chromosomes during meiosis. Rhoades' also pioneered work in nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions. Pic: https://www.nap.edu/read/5859/chapter/18 | ||1991: Marcus Morton Rhoades dies ... cytogeneticist. His research on maize led to important discoveries for basic genetics and the applied science of plant breeding. He was one of the first cytogenecists to document the pre-meiotic pairing of homologous chromosomes in maize, otherwise referred as somatic pairing (Singh, 2003), and the first to document an instance of meiotic drive, a Mendelian inheritance caused by preferential segregation of certain versions of homologous chromosomes during meiosis. Rhoades' also pioneered work in nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions. Pic: https://www.nap.edu/read/5859/chapter/18 | ||
||1993: Giuseppe Occhialini dies ... physicist and academic. | ||1993: Giuseppe Occhialini dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1994: Dmitri Ivanenko dies ... physicist and academic. | ||1994: Dmitri Ivanenko dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=dmitri+ivanenko | ||
||2001: Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakalyukin dies ... mathematician known for his research on singularity theory, differential equations, and optimal control theory. Pic: http://www.cmapx.polytechnique.fr/~boscain/volodia.html | ||2001: Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakalyukin dies ... mathematician known for his research on singularity theory, differential equations, and optimal control theory. Pic: http://www.cmapx.polytechnique.fr/~boscain/volodia.html | ||
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1842: Osman Hamdi Bey born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
1892: Mathematician Pekka Myrberg born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou.
1916: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin dies.
1947: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
1954: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive day.
1963: Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press wins Pulitzer Award.
2013: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".
2016: Eye Foot is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.