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||2002: David Todd Wilkinson dies ... cosmologist and astronomer ... specializing in the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) left over from the Big Bang. | ||2002: David Todd Wilkinson dies ... cosmologist and astronomer ... specializing in the study of the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) left over from the Big Bang. | ||
||1985: Philip | ||1985: Philip M. Morse dies ... physicist, administrator and pioneer of operations research (OR) in World War II. He is considered to be the father of operations research in the U.S. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Philip+McCord+Morse | ||
||2014: Mara Neusel dies ... mathematician, author, and academic. | ||2014: Mara Neusel dies ... mathematician, author, and academic. | ||
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1575: Mathematician Federico Commandino born. He will gain fame for his central role as translator of works of ancient mathematicians.
1588: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to locate alleged supervillain Anarchimedes.
1677: Theologian, natural philosopher, and diplomat Henry Oldenburg dies. He was one of the foremost intelligencers of Europe of the seventeenth century, and the creator of scientific peer review.
1725: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla born. His deep interest in history of mathematics will become apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.
1947: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.
1948: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman dies. He made important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
1948: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1977: Voyager 1 spacecraft launches. It will visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon Titan.
2018: Volume one of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer published.