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||1879: Donald Matheson Sutherland born ... physician and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of National Defence. Pic. | ||1879: Donald Matheson Sutherland born ... physician and politician, 5th Canadian Minister of National Defence. Pic. | ||
||1886: Manne Siegbahn born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1886: Manne Siegbahn born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1888: Carl Zeiss dies ... physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument. Pic. | ||1888: Carl Zeiss dies ... physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument. Pic. | ||
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||1897: William Gropper born ... cartoonist and painter ... Due to his involvement with radical politics in the 1920s and 1930s, Gropper was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953. The experience provided inspirational fodder for a series of fifty lithographs entitled the ''Caprichos''. | ||1897: William Gropper born ... cartoonist and painter ... Due to his involvement with radical politics in the 1920s and 1930s, Gropper was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953. The experience provided inspirational fodder for a series of fifty lithographs entitled the ''Caprichos''. | ||
||1900: Richard Kuhn born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1900: Richard Kuhn born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1903: Sydney Goldstein born ... mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics, notably his work on steady-flow laminar boundary-layer equations and on the turbulent resistance to rotation of a disk in a fluid. Goldstein also contributed to aerodynamics. Pic: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/history/sydney-goldstein/ | ||1903: Sydney Goldstein born ... mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics, notably his work on steady-flow laminar boundary-layer equations and on the turbulent resistance to rotation of a disk in a fluid. Goldstein also contributed to aerodynamics. Pic: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/history/sydney-goldstein/ | ||
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1616: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1878: Physicist John Tyndall uses a series of infra-red light devices to send a message from the White House to New Minneapolis in less than seven minutes.
1909: Electrical engineers John Havelock and Nikolai Tesla invent new data transmission protocols based on the work of mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis.
1910: Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
1911: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1924: Mathematician and computer scientist John Backus born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax.
1965: Mathematician and crime-fighter Edward Lorenz publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2001: The Genesis spacecraft exposes its collector arrays, beginning collection of solar wind particles. The collection process will end after 850 days, on April 1, 2004, with the spacecraft completing five halo loops around L1.
2016: Signed first edition of Spiral 2 stolen from the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.