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||1895: Dickinson W. Richards born ... physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1895: Dickinson W. Richards born ... physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1900: Ragnar Granit born ... neuroscientist and academic ... awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for their discoveries concerning the primary physiological and chemical visual processes in the eye". Pic (cool tech!). | |||
||1903: Leonarde Keeler born ... co-inventor of the polygraph. Pic. | ||1903: Leonarde Keeler born ... co-inventor of the polygraph. Pic. | ||
||1906: Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov born ... mathematician and geophysicist known for important contributions to topology, functional analysis, mathematical physics, and ill-posed problems. He was also one of the inventors of the magnetotellurics method in geophysics. | ||1906: Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov born ... mathematician and geophysicist known for important contributions to topology, functional analysis, mathematical physics, and ill-posed problems. He was also one of the inventors of the magnetotellurics method in geophysics. Pic. | ||
||1907: Harold Davenport born ... mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory. Pic. | ||1907: Harold Davenport born ... mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory. Pic. | ||
||1909: Homi J. Bhabha born ... physicist and academic. | ||1909: Homi J. Bhabha born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital. | File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital. | ||
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1626: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius dies. In 1615 he conducted a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.
1878: Electrical engineer and inventor Arthur Scherbius born. He will invent and patent the famous mechanical cipher Enigma machine.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a machine gun attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1925: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird creates Britain's first television transmitter.
2008: Mathematician, social activist, and crime-fighter Irving Adler publishes evidence that high-level crimes against mathematical constants have been covered up by the government for decades.
2009: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss dies. His work was key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
2016: Signed first edition of Blue Green Blossom used in high-energy literature experiment develops artificial intelligence, demands copyright autonomy.
2017: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery reveals nearly two terabytes of encrypted data.