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||1832: Alvan Graham Clark, American astronomer born ... astronomer and telescope-maker. Pic (cool tech). | ||1832: Alvan Graham Clark, American astronomer born ... astronomer and telescope-maker. Pic (cool tech). | ||
||1851: Louis Daguerre dies ... photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype. | ||1851: Louis Daguerre dies ... photographer and physicist, invented the daguerreotype. Pic. | ||
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1856: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. | File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1856: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system. | ||
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||1858: Boleslav Kornelievich Mlodzeevskii born ... mathematician, a former president of the Moscow Mathematical Society. He will work in differential and algebraic geometry. Pic. | ||1858: Boleslav Kornelievich Mlodzeevskii born ... mathematician, a former president of the Moscow Mathematical Society. He will work in differential and algebraic geometry. Pic. | ||
||1902: Kurt Alder born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1902: Kurt Alder born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry shared with Otto Diels for their work on what is now known as the Diels–Alder reaction. Pic. | ||
||1910: Johann Gottfried Galle dies ... astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at. Urbain Le Verrier had predicted the existence and position of Neptune, and sent the coordinates to Galle, asking him to verify | ||1910: Johann Gottfried Galle dies ... astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at. Urbain Le Verrier had predicted the existence and position of Neptune, and sent the coordinates to Galle, asking him to verify | ||
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||1931: Peter P. Sorokin born ... physicist and co-inventor of the dye laser. Pic. | ||1931: Peter P. Sorokin born ... physicist and co-inventor of the dye laser. Pic. | ||
||1936: Salvatore Pincherle dies ... mathematician. He contributed significantly to (and arguably helped to found) the field of functional analysis, established the Italian Mathematical Union (Italian: "Unione Matematica Italiana"), and was president of the Third International Congress of Mathematicians. The Pincherle derivative is named after him. | ||1936: Salvatore Pincherle dies ... mathematician. He contributed significantly to (and arguably helped to found) the field of functional analysis, established the Italian Mathematical Union (Italian: "Unione Matematica Italiana"), and was president of the Third International Congress of Mathematicians. The Pincherle derivative is named after him. Pic. | ||
File:Nicolaas de Bruijn.jpg|link=Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and theorist [[Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn]] uses combinatorics, logic, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and reverse [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Nicolaas de Bruijn.jpg|link=Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and theorist [[Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn]] uses combinatorics, logic, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and reverse [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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1856: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
1938: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn uses combinatorics, logic, and Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and reverse crimes against mathematical constants.
1962: Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
2017: Signed first edition of Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research sells for ten millions dollars at a charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
2018: Signed first edition of Golden Spiral is stolen from the Walker Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by criminal artificial intelligence Gnotilus.