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||1873: Auguste Arthur de la Rive born ... physicist. Pic. | ||1873: Auguste Arthur de la Rive born ... physicist. Pic. | ||
||1874: Chaim Weizmann born ... chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel. | ||1874: Chaim Weizmann born ... chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel. Pic. | ||
||1875: Richard Christopher Carrington dies ... astronomer and | ||1875: Richard Christopher Carrington dies ... amateur astronomer whose 1859 astronomical observations demonstrated the existence of solar flares as well as suggesting their electrical influence upon the Earth and its aurorae; and whose 1863 records of sunspot observations revealed the differential rotation of the Sun. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Richard+Christopher+Carrington | ||
||1876: Viktor Kaplan born ... engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine. Pic. | ||1876: Viktor Kaplan born ... engineer and the inventor of the Kaplan turbine. Pic. | ||
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||1895: At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies. | ||1895: At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies. | ||
||1897: Vito Genovese born ... mob boss. | ||1897: Vito Genovese born ... mob boss. Pic. | ||
||1903: Lars Onsager born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1903: Lars Onsager born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1904: Paul Tannery dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. He was the older brother of mathematician Jules Tannery, to whose Notions Mathématiques he contributed an historical chapter. Though Tannery's career was in the tobacco industry, he devoted his evenings and his life to the study of mathematicians and mathematical development. | ||1904: Paul Tannery dies ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. He was the older brother of mathematician Jules Tannery, to whose Notions Mathématiques he contributed an historical chapter. Though Tannery's career was in the tobacco industry, he devoted his evenings and his life to the study of mathematicians and mathematical development. | ||
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1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, is prized by gamblers.
1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1971: The The Mars 2 landing module crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 crash.
