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||1884: Georges Imbert born ... chemical engineer and inventor. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=georges+imbert | ||1884: Georges Imbert born ... chemical engineer and inventor. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=georges+imbert | ||
||1908: Theodore | ||1908: Theodore Motzkin born ... mathematician. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Theodore+Samuel+Motzkin | ||
File:Carl Gottfried Neumann.jpg|link=Carl Gottfried Neumann (nonfiction)|1909: Mathematician [[Carl Gottfried Neumann (nonfiction)|Carl Gottfried Neumann]] uses the finite propagation of electrodynamic actions to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Carl Gottfried Neumann.jpg|link=Carl Gottfried Neumann (nonfiction)|1909: Mathematician [[Carl Gottfried Neumann (nonfiction)|Carl Gottfried Neumann]] uses the finite propagation of electrodynamic actions to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1910: Auguste Charlois dies ... astronomer. | ||1910: Auguste Charlois dies ... astronomer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Auguste+Charlois | ||
||1893: James Bryant Conant born ... chemist, academic, and diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to West Germany. Pic. | ||1893: James Bryant Conant born ... chemist, academic, and diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to West Germany. Pic. | ||
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||1903: Patrick du Val born ... mathematician, known for his work on algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and general relativity. The concept of Du Val singularity of an algebraic surface is named after him. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Du_Val.html | ||1903: Patrick du Val born ... mathematician, known for his work on algebraic geometry, differential geometry, and general relativity. The concept of Du Val singularity of an algebraic surface is named after him. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Du_Val.html | ||
||1911: Bernard Katz born ... biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1911: Bernard Katz born ... biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=bernard+katz | ||
File:Paul Erdős.jpg|link=Paul Erdős (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Erdős (nonfiction)|Paul Erdős]] born. He will firmly believe mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians. | File:Paul Erdős.jpg|link=Paul Erdős (nonfiction)|1913: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Erdős (nonfiction)|Paul Erdős]] born. He will firmly believe mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians. | ||
||1914: Toru Kumon born ... mathematician | ||1914: Toru Kumon born ... mathematician, academic, educator. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=toru+kumon&oq=Toru+Kumon | ||
||1916: Christian B. Anfinsen born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1916: Christian B. Anfinsen born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1922: Oscar Sala born ... physicist and academic. | ||1922: Oscar Sala born ... nuclear physicist and academic. He will be a leading figure in Brazilian scientific research. Pic search tech: https://www.google.com/search?q=Oscar+Sala | ||
||1922: Guido Stampacchia born ... mathematician and academic ... known for his work on the theory of variational inequalities, the calculus of variation and the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. | ||1922: Guido Stampacchia born ... mathematician and academic ... known for his work on the theory of variational inequalities, the calculus of variation and the theory of elliptic partial differential equations. | ||
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1773: American captain and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch born. He will be a founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, will be carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.
1792: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use as scrying engine.
1793: Physician and engineer John Mudge dies. He was the first self-proclaimed civil engineer, and often regarded as the "father of civil engineering".
1851: Mathematician George Chrystal born. He will be awarded a Gold Medal from the Royal Society of London (confirmed shortly after his death) for his studies of seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water).
1909: Mathematician Carl Gottfried Neumann uses the finite propagation of electrodynamic actions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1913: Mathematician and academic Paul Erdős born. He will firmly believe mathematics to be a social activity, living an itinerant lifestyle with the sole purpose of writing mathematical papers with other mathematicians.