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||1889: Edgar Douglas Adrian born ... electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. He provided experimental evidence for the all-or-none law of nerves. Pic. | ||1889: Edgar Douglas Adrian born ... electrophysiologist and recipient of the 1932 Nobel Prize for Physiology, won jointly with Sir Charles Sherrington for work on the function of neurons. He provided experimental evidence for the all-or-none law of nerves. Pic. | ||
||1915: Henry Taube born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1915: Henry Taube born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1921: Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz dies ... mathematician, known for his work in complex analysis. Pic. | ||1921: Karl Hermann Amandus Schwarz dies ... mathematician, known for his work in complex analysis. Pic. | ||
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||1922: André Néron born ... mathematician at the Université de Poitiers who worked on elliptic curves and Abelian varieties. He discovered the Néron minimal model of an elliptic curve or abelian variety, the Néron differential, the Néron–Severi group, the Néron–Ogg–Shafarevich criterion, the local height and Néron–Tate height of rational points on an Abelian variety over a discrete valuation ring or Dedekind domain. Pic: https://ceppp.ca/en/ceppp-andre-neron-1000x1000px/ | ||1922: André Néron born ... mathematician at the Université de Poitiers who worked on elliptic curves and Abelian varieties. He discovered the Néron minimal model of an elliptic curve or abelian variety, the Néron differential, the Néron–Severi group, the Néron–Ogg–Shafarevich criterion, the local height and Néron–Tate height of rational points on an Abelian variety over a discrete valuation ring or Dedekind domain. Pic: https://ceppp.ca/en/ceppp-andre-neron-1000x1000px/ | ||
||1930: G. Gordon Liddy born ... lawyer, radio host, television actor and criminal. | ||1930: G. Gordon Liddy born ... lawyer, radio host, television actor and criminal. Pic. | ||
||1934: The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100 mph. | ||1934: The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100 mph. | ||
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||1936: In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire. | ||1936: In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire. | ||
||1937: Praveen Chaudhari born ... physicist and academic. | ||1937: Praveen Chaudhari born ... physicist and academic. Pic search:https://www.google.com/search?q=praveen+chaudhari | ||
File:Ridley Scott.jpg|link=Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|1937: Film director and producer [[Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|Ridley Scott]] born. | File:Ridley Scott.jpg|link=Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|1937: Film director and producer [[Ridley Scott (nonfiction)|Ridley Scott]] born. | ||
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3340 BC: Earliest recorded solar eclipse.
1740: Mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer Johann Gabriel Doppelmayr publishes Atlas Coelestis in quo Algorithmus Gnomonis, his landmark study of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1827: Physicist, musician, and academic Ernst Chladni dies. He has been called both the father of acoustics and the father of meteoritics.
1829: Poet and wizard Jan Kochanowski adapts Nebra sky disk for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1835: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer Mark Twain born.
1888: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley born. He will invent the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contribute to the foundations of information theory.
1937: Film director and producer Ridley Scott born.
2017: Green Ring voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
