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||1851: Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster born ... physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. Pic. | ||1851: Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster born ... physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. Pic. | ||
||1860: William Walker born ... physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary who organized several private military expeditions into Latin America, with the intention of establishing English-speaking slave colonies under his personal control, an enterprise then known as "filibustering". Walker usurped the presidency of the Republic of Nicaragua in 1856 and ruled until 1857, when he was defeated by a coalition of Central American armies. He returned in an attempt to reestablish his control of the region and was captured and executed by the government of Honduras in 1860. Pic. | |||
||1869: Peter Mark Roget born ... physician, natural theologian and lexicographer. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (Roget's Thesaurus), a classified collection of related words. Pic. | ||1869: Peter Mark Roget born ... physician, natural theologian and lexicographer. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (Roget's Thesaurus), a classified collection of related words. Pic. | ||
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||1897: Irène Joliot-Curie born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1897: Irène Joliot-Curie born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1877: Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel born ... mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device. | ||1877: Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel born ... mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Georg+Karl+Wilhelm+Hamel | ||
File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic. | File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic. | ||
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||1900: Jacob Mendes Da Costa dies ... physician. Pic. | ||1900: Jacob Mendes Da Costa dies ... physician. Pic. | ||
||1906: Ernesto Cesàro dies ... mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. | ||1906: Ernesto Cesàro dies ... mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. Pic | ||
||1917: Désiré André dies ... mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=désiré+andré | ||1917: Désiré André dies ... mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=désiré+andré | ||
||1918: Maxime Bôcher dies ... mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher's theorem, Bôcher's equation, and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after him. | ||1918: Maxime Bôcher dies ... mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher's theorem, Bôcher's equation, and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after him. Pic. | ||
||1923: Jules Violle dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=jules+violle | ||1923: Jules Violle dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=jules+violle | ||
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1725: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil born. He will discover what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).
1900: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.
1933: Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
2017: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden wins Pulitzer Prize.
2018: Green Sprouts voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
