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||1910: Physicist and chemical engineer Richard Collins Lord born ... a pioneer in the use of infrared radiation for the study of molecular structure and is widely recognized for contributions made to the interpretation of the infrared spectra of molecules in terms of their vibrational motion, and also to our understanding of the cohesion of molecule by means of hydrogen bonding. His studies of the laser Raman spectroscopy of proteins and nucleic acids opened a new field of research. Pic: http://web.mit.edu/spectroscopy/events/lord.html | ||1910: Physicist and chemical engineer Richard Collins Lord born ... a pioneer in the use of infrared radiation for the study of molecular structure and is widely recognized for contributions made to the interpretation of the infrared spectra of molecules in terms of their vibrational motion, and also to our understanding of the cohesion of molecule by means of hydrogen bonding. His studies of the laser Raman spectroscopy of proteins and nucleic acids opened a new field of research. Pic: http://web.mit.edu/spectroscopy/events/lord.html | ||
||1919: Anatole Mallet dies ... mechanical engineer ... inventor of the first successful compound system for a railway steam locomotive, patented in 1874. Pic. | |||
||1919: Arvid Gerhard Damm files for a patent (Swedish patent #52,279) on a rotor machine. No pic online for the man, but yes pic for the machine. | ||1919: Arvid Gerhard Damm files for a patent (Swedish patent #52,279) on a rotor machine. No pic online for the man, but yes pic for the machine. | ||
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||2014: Ichirō Satake dies ... mathematician working on algebraic groups who introduced the Satake isomorphism and Satake diagrams. Pic. | ||2014: Ichirō Satake dies ... mathematician working on algebraic groups who introduced the Satake isomorphism and Satake diagrams. Pic. | ||
||2015: Richard F. Heck dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||2015: Richard F. Heck dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... noted for the discovery and development of the Heck reaction, which uses palladium to catalyze organic chemical reactions that couple aryl halides with alkenes. Pic. | ||
File:Crimson Blossom.jpg|link=Crimson Blossom (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Crimson Blossom (nonfiction)|Crimson Blossom]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Crimson Blossom.jpg|link=Crimson Blossom (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Crimson Blossom (nonfiction)|Crimson Blossom]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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1641: Torricelli arrives in Arcetri to study with Galileo. ".. postpone his arrival at Arcetri until 10 October 1641. He took up residence in Galileo’s house, where Vincenzo Viviani was already living, and stayed there in close friendship with Galileo until the latter’s death on 8 January 1642.
1708: Mathematician and astronomer David Gregory dies. At the Union of 1707, he was given the responsibility of reorganizing the Scottish Mint.
1730: Physicist and crime-fighter Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit uses precision thermometry to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1731: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish born. He will discover "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.
1888: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
1889: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren born. He will be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
1943: Mathematician and soldier Janet Beta accepts commission with secret military-intelligence program ENIAC.
2016: Crimson Blossom voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.