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||1917: Dorothy Maharam Stone born ... mathematician born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, who made important contributions to measure theory and became the namesake of Maharam's theorem and Maharam algebra. Pic: https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/stone.htm | ||1917: Dorothy Maharam Stone born ... mathematician born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, who made important contributions to measure theory and became the namesake of Maharam's theorem and Maharam algebra. Pic: https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/stone.htm | ||
||1929: Gerald Edelman born ... biologist and immunologist ... shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules. | ||1929: Gerald Edelman born ... biologist and immunologist ... shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules. In interviews, he has said that the way the components of the immune system evolve over the life of the individual is analogous to the way the components of the brain evolve in a lifetime. Pic. | ||
||1951: Dugald | ||1951: Dugald C. Jackson dies ... electrical engineer. He received the IEEE Edison Medal for "outstanding and inspiring leadership in engineering education and in the field of generation and distribution of electric power". Pic. | ||
||1957: The International Geophysical Year begins. | ||1957: The International Geophysical Year begins. | ||
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1646: Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz born. He will develop differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and design and build mechanical calculators.
1819: Johann Georg Tralles discovers the Great Comet of 1819 (C/1819 N1). It was the first comet analyzed using polarimetry, by François Arago.
1881: The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
2001: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov dies. He did fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics.
2016: Signed first edition of Spinning Thistle used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.
2019: The Custodian says he is "not planning on retiring any time soon."