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||1920: Nicolaas Bloembergen born ... physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at both Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona. Bloembergen shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Schawlow, along with Kai Siegbahn for his laser spectroscopy work. Pic.
||1920: Nicolaas Bloembergen born ... physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at both Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona. Bloembergen shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Schawlow, along with Kai Siegbahn for his laser spectroscopy work. Pic.


||1920: Julio Garavito Armero dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and engineer.
||1920: Julio Garavito Armero dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and engineer. Pic.


||1921: Sherburne Wesley Burnham born ... astronomer. For more than fifty years he spent all his free time observing the heavens, principally concerning himself with binary stars. During the 1840s it was believed that essentially all the binary stars visible to the instruments of the day had been discovered; Burnham found 451 new ones from 1872 to 1877. Pic.
||1921: Sherburne Wesley Burnham born ... astronomer. For more than fifty years he spent all his free time observing the heavens, principally concerning himself with binary stars. During the 1840s it was believed that essentially all the binary stars visible to the instruments of the day had been discovered; Burnham found 451 new ones from 1872 to 1877. Pic.


||1921: Frank Harary born ... mathematician and academic.
||1921: Frank Harary born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1924: Niels Fabian Helge von Koch dies ... mathematician who gave his name to the famous fractal known as the Koch snowflake, one of the earliest fractal curves to be described. Pic.
||1924: Niels Fabian Helge von Koch dies ... mathematician who gave his name to the famous fractal known as the Koch snowflake, one of the earliest fractal curves to be described. Pic.

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  • 1811: Mathematician and astronomer Urbain Le Verrier born. He will predict the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics, an event which will be widely regarded as one of the most remarkable moments of 19th century science.

    1811: Mathematician and astronomer Urbain Le Verrier born. He will predict the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics, an event which will be widely regarded as one of the most remarkable moments of 19th century science.

  • 1821: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake publishes his award-winning illustrations of demons and angels. A generation later, mathematicians will discover hidden clues to imminent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1821: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake publishes his award-winning illustrations of demons and angels. A generation later, mathematicians will discover hidden clues to imminent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1822: Mathematician, economist, and academic Joseph Louis François Bertrand born. He will work in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.

    1822: Mathematician, economist, and academic Joseph Louis François Bertrand born. He will work in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.

  • 1823: Publication of Niles Cartouchian and Anton Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting crimes against mathematical constants.

    1823: Publication of Niles Cartouchian and Anton Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1880: American eugenicist and sociologist Harry H. Laughlin born. He will be the Superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office from its inception in 1910 to its closing in 1939, and among the most active individuals in influencing American eugenics policy, especially compulsory sterilization legislation.

    1880: American eugenicist and sociologist Harry H. Laughlin born. He will be the Superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office from its inception in 1910 to its closing in 1939, and among the most active individuals in influencing American eugenics policy, especially compulsory sterilization legislation.

  • 1971: Inventor Philo Farnsworth dies. He made many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television.

    1971: Inventor Philo Farnsworth dies. He made many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television.

  • 1996: Engineer and inventor Charles William Oatley dies. He developed of one of the first commercial scanning electron microscopes.

    1996: Engineer and inventor Charles William Oatley dies. He developed of one of the first commercial scanning electron microscopes.

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    2002: Inventor and engineer Rudolf Hell dies. He invented the Hellschreiber teleprinter system.

  • 2018: Signed first edition of Red Spiral stolen The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, during a stealthy overnight heist allegedly masterminded by the Forbidden Ratio gang.

    2018: Signed first edition of Red Spiral stolen The State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, during a stealthy overnight heist allegedly masterminded by the Forbidden Ratio gang.

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