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||1898: Jesse Wakefield Beams born ... physicist. Manhattan project, gravestone. | ||1898: Jesse Wakefield Beams born ... physicist. Manhattan project, gravestone. | ||
||1900: Antoni Zygmund born ... mathematician. He is considered one of the greatest analysts of the 20th century. His main area of interest was harmonic analysis. | ||1900: Antoni Zygmund born ... mathematician. He is considered one of the greatest analysts of the 20th century. His main area of interest was harmonic analysis. Pic. | ||
||1904: Gerhard Herzberg born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1904: Gerhard Herzberg born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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|File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1956: [[John Brunner]] uses [[scrying engine]] to extract [[cryptographic numen]] from [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber transmissions]]. | |File:John_Brunner's_Lee_and_Turner_engine.jpg|link=John Brunner|1956: [[John Brunner]] uses [[scrying engine]] to extract [[cryptographic numen]] from [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellscreiber transmissions]]. | ||
||1961: Otto Loewi dies ... pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1961: Otto Loewi dies ... pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1961: Reinhold Rudenberg dies ... electrical engineer and inventor, credited with many innovations in the electric power and related fields. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=reinhold+rudenberg | ||1961: Reinhold Rudenberg dies ... electrical engineer and inventor, credited with many innovations in the electric power and related fields. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=reinhold+rudenberg | ||
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1642: Isaac Newton born. He will be widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
1730: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei born. He will act as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
1763: Inventor Claude Chappe born. He will invent and develop a practical semaphore system that will span all of France -- the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial age.
1881: Physician, physiologist, and APTO field engineer Emil du Bois-Reymond uses experimental electrophysiology techniques to demonstrate a physiological basis for the energy exerted by Gnomon algorithm functions.
1932: Enrico Fermi computes probability set for path Santa Claus will travel.
2016: Astronomer and academic Vera Rubin dies. She discovered the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, by studying galactic rotation curves.
2017: Swirl is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.