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||1883: Victor Puiseux dies ... mathematician and astronomer. Puiseux series are named after him, as is in part the Bertrand–Diquet–Puiseux theorem. Pic. | ||1883: Victor Puiseux dies ... mathematician and astronomer. Puiseux series are named after him, as is in part the Bertrand–Diquet–Puiseux theorem. Pic. | ||
||1892: Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard. | ||1892: Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard. Pic. | ||
||1893: Friedrich Traugott Kützing dies ... pharmacist, botanist and phycologist ... diatoms v. desmids. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Friedrich+Traugott+Kützing | ||1893: Friedrich Traugott Kützing dies ... pharmacist, botanist and phycologist ... diatoms v. desmids. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Friedrich+Traugott+Kützing | ||
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||1920: Feng Kang born ... mathematician and physicist. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Feng+Kang+mathematician | ||1920: Feng Kang born ... mathematician and physicist. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Feng+Kang+mathematician | ||
||1922: Hans Georg Dehmelt born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1922: Hans Georg Dehmelt born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1941: Dennis Ritchie born ... computer scientist, created the C programming language. Pic. | ||1941: Dennis Ritchie born ... computer scientist, created the C programming language. Pic. | ||
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||1985: Paul Flory dies ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1985: Paul Flory dies ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1995: Reinhard Furrer born ... physicist and astronaut. Pic. | |||
||2002: Geoffrey Dummer dies ... electronics engineer and consultant who is credited as being the first person to conceptualise and build a prototype of the integrated circuit, commonly called the microchip, in the late-1940s and early 1950s. Pic. | ||2002: Geoffrey Dummer dies ... electronics engineer and consultant who is credited as being the first person to conceptualise and build a prototype of the integrated circuit, commonly called the microchip, in the late-1940s and early 1950s. Pic. | ||
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File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the forty-second anniversary of the launch of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] spacecraft. | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the forty-second anniversary of the launch of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] spacecraft. | ||
ink=The Custodian|2018: [[The Custodian]] tells a funny story about why you can't go in there. | |||
File:Embassy.jpg|link=Embassy (nonfiction)|2018: Updated version of ''[[Embassy (nonfiction)|Embassy]]'' published. "The old version was so dark, it was barely visible. This version is much more to my taste," says artist [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]]. | File:Embassy.jpg|link=Embassy (nonfiction)|2018: Updated version of ''[[Embassy (nonfiction)|Embassy]]'' published. "The old version was so dark, it was barely visible. This version is much more to my taste," says artist [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]]. | ||
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1737: Physician and physicist Luigi Galvani born. In 1780, he will discover that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1947: First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
1975: Viking program: Viking 2 launched. Following a 333-day cruise to Mars, the Viking orbiter will begin returning global images of Mars.
2003: Theoretical physicist and academic Edward Teller dies. He is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb", although he did not care for the epithet.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-second anniversary of the launch of the Viking 2 spacecraft.
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2018: The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.
2018: Updated version of Embassy published. "The old version was so dark, it was barely visible. This version is much more to my taste," says artist Karl Jones.