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||1731: Benjamin Banneker born ... almanac author, surveyor, naturalist, and farmer. Pic. | ||1731: Benjamin Banneker born ... almanac author, surveyor, naturalist, and farmer. Pic. | ||
||1803: Georges-Louis Le Sage dies ... physicist and is most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases. | ||1803: Georges-Louis Le Sage dies ... physicist and is most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases. Pic. | ||
||1819: Annibale de Gasparis born ... astronomer discovered asteroids. Pic. | ||1819: Annibale de Gasparis born ... astronomer discovered asteroids. Pic. | ||
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||1897: Ronald George Wreyford Norrish born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1897: Ronald George Wreyford Norrish born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1904: Viktor Brack born ... German physician ... T4. Pic. | |||
||1905: Abraham Adrian Albert born ... mathematician ... He is best known for his work on the Albert–Brauer–Hasse–Noether theorem on finite-dimensional division algebras over number fields and as the developer of Albert algebras, which are also known as exceptional Jordan algebras. Pic: http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/050714/acubed.shtml | ||1905: Abraham Adrian Albert born ... mathematician ... He is best known for his work on the Albert–Brauer–Hasse–Noether theorem on finite-dimensional division algebras over number fields and as the developer of Albert algebras, which are also known as exceptional Jordan algebras. Pic: http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/050714/acubed.shtml | ||
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1885: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research will have major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.
1920: Materials engineer and academic Philip G. Hodge born. He will study the mechanics of elastic and plastic behavior of materials, contributing to plasticity theory including developments in the method of characteristics, limit-analysis, piecewise linear isotropic plasticity, and nonlinear programming applications.
1922: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Imre Lakatos born. He will be known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development.
2005: The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2017: First use of Weyl semimetal crystals as a quantum time machine which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.