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||1904: Dmitri Dmitrievich Ivanenko born ... theoretical physicist who made a great contributions to the physical science of the twentieth century, especially to nuclear physics, field theory, and gravitation theory. | ||1904: Dmitri Dmitrievich Ivanenko born ... theoretical physicist who made a great contributions to the physical science of the twentieth century, especially to nuclear physics, field theory, and gravitation theory. | ||
|| | ||1905: Dag Hammarskjöld born ... economist and diplomat who served as the second Secretary-General of the United Nations. Hammarskjöld was the youngest person to have held the post, at an age of 47 years upon his appointment. His second term was cut short when he died in the crash of his DC-6 airplane (whose cause is still disputed) while en route to cease-fire negotiations during the Congo Crisis. Pic. | ||
||1925: Harold W. Kuhn born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1923: Edgar Cortright born ... scientist and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1925: Harold W. Kuhn born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | |||
File:Bonus marchers.gif|link=Bonus Army (nonfiction)|1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "[[Bonus Army (nonfiction)|Bonus Army]]" of World War I veterans. | File:Bonus marchers.gif|link=Bonus Army (nonfiction)|1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "[[Bonus Army (nonfiction)|Bonus Army]]" of World War I veterans. | ||
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||1958: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). | ||1958: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). | ||
||1962: | ||1962: Ronald Fisher dies ... statistician and geneticist ... "a genius who almost single-handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science" and "the single most important figure in 20th century statistics". In genetics, his work used mathematics to combine Mendelian genetics and natural selection; this contributed to the revival of Darwinism in the early 20th-century revision of the theory of evolution known as the modern synthesis. For his contributions to biology, Fisher has been called "the greatest of Darwin’s successors". Pic. | ||
||1970: Rollo Davidson dies in a mountaineering accident ... probabilist, alpinist, and Fellow-elect of Churchill College, Cambridge, who died aged 25 on Piz Bernina. He is known for his work on semigroups, stochastic geometry, and stochastic analysis,[1] and for the Rollo Davidson Prize, given in his name to young probabilists. Pic: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/Rollo/ | ||1970: Rollo Davidson dies in a mountaineering accident ... probabilist, alpinist, and Fellow-elect of Churchill College, Cambridge, who died aged 25 on Piz Bernina. He is known for his work on semigroups, stochastic geometry, and stochastic analysis,[1] and for the Rollo Davidson Prize, given in his name to young probabilists. Pic: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/Rollo/ | ||
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1781: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies dies. He was one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and dedicated two of his works to the Englishman.
1840: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Boole develops new system of symbolic logic which assists mathematicians in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
1976: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian.
1996: Mathematician and Doctor of Medicine Marcel-Paul Schützenberger dies. Schützenberger contributed to the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory.
2015: Tractor voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
