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||1888: Sydney Chapman born ... mathematician and geophysicist. Pic.
||1888: Sydney Chapman born ... mathematician and geophysicist. Pic.


File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] dies.
File:Edward Lear.jpg|link=Edward Lear (nonfiction)|1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet [[Edward Lear (nonfiction)|Edward Lear]] dies. Lear is remembered mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form he popularized.


||1901: Allen B. DuMont born ... electronics engineer, scientist and inventor best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube in 1931 for use in television receivers. Seven years later he manufactured and sold the first commercially practical television set to the public. Pic.
||1901: Allen B. DuMont born ... electronics engineer, scientist and inventor best known for improvements to the cathode ray tube in 1931 for use in television receivers. Seven years later he manufactured and sold the first commercially practical television set to the public. Pic.

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  • 1688: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg born. In later life he will receive scientific knowledge in a spontaneous manner from angels.

    1688: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg born. In later life he will receive scientific knowledge in a spontaneous manner from angels.

  • 1810: Mathematician Ernst Kummer born. Kummer will contribute to abstract algebra; in ring theory, he will introduce the term ideal.

    1810: Mathematician Ernst Kummer born. Kummer will contribute to abstract algebra; in ring theory, he will introduce the term ideal.

  • 1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear dies. Lear is remembered mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form he popularized.

    1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear dies. Lear is remembered mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form he popularized.

  • 1926: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam born. He will share the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.

    1926: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam born. He will share the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.

  • 1933: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally born. He will be known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".

    1933: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally born. He will be known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".

  • 1934: Chemist Fritz Haber dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. Haber also did pioneering work in chemical warfare, weaponizing chlorine and other poisonous gases during World War I.

    1934: Chemist Fritz Haber dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas. Haber also did pioneering work in chemical warfare, weaponizing chlorine and other poisonous gases during World War I.

  • 1940: Alice Beta predicts that mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec will make "incalculable contributions to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants."

    1940: Alice Beta predicts that mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec will make "incalculable contributions to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants."

  • 1941: Mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec born. He will develop the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.

    1941: Mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec born. He will develop the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.

  • 1970: Mathematician and crime-fighter Samuel Eilenberg applies the telescoping cancellation idea to projective Gnomon algorithm modules, revealing new techniques for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1970: Mathematician and crime-fighter Samuel Eilenberg applies the telescoping cancellation idea to projective Gnomon algorithm modules, revealing new techniques for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

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