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||1755: Stanisław Staszic born ... philosopher, poet, and geologist. He was a leading figure of the Polish Enlightenment. Pic. | ||1755: Stanisław Staszic born ... philosopher, poet, and geologist. He was a leading figure of the Polish Enlightenment. Pic. | ||
||1771: John Bevis dies ... physician and astronomer. | ||1771: John Bevis dies ... physician and astronomer, Uranographia. Pic: star chart. | ||
||1781: Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana born ... astronomer and mathematician. Plana's contributions included work on the motions of the Moon, as well as integrals, (including the Abel–Plana formula), elliptic functions, heat, electrostatics, and geodesy. Pic. | ||1781: Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana born ... astronomer and mathematician. Plana's contributions included work on the motions of the Moon, as well as integrals, (including the Abel–Plana formula), elliptic functions, heat, electrostatics, and geodesy. Pic. | ||
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||1964: Hans von Euler-Chelpin dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1964: Hans von Euler-Chelpin dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1950: Amir Aczel born ... mathematician, historian, and academic. | ||1950: Amir Aczel born ... mathematician, historian, and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=amir+aczel | ||
||1964: Hans von Euler-Chelpin born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1964: Hans von Euler-Chelpin born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin dies.
1872: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred Clebsch publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use algebraic geometry and invariant theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1971: The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted.
2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Janet Beta.
2017: Signed first edition of Ursa Nano sells for undisclosed amount in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against light. The buyer is reported to be "a prominent mathematician living in New Minneapolis, Canada."