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||1571: Hippolytus Guarinonius born ... physician and polymath. Pic. | ||1571: Hippolytus Guarinonius born ... physician and polymath. Pic. | ||
||1647: Pierre Bayle born ... philosopher and | ||1647: Pierre Bayle born ... philosopher and writer best known for his seminal work the Historical and Critical Dictionary, publication beginning in 1697. Bayle was a French Calvinist. As a forerunner of the Encyclopedists and an advocate of the principle of toleration, his works subsequently influenced the development of the Enlightenment. Pic. | ||
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1724: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] dies. | File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1724: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] dies. | ||
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||1832: Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ... Finnish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists. Pic. | ||1832: Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ... Finnish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists. Pic. | ||
||1833: Hugh Ronalds dies ... nurseryman who cultivated and documented 300 varieties of apples. Pic search tombstone | ||1833: Hugh Ronalds dies ... nurseryman who cultivated and documented 300 varieties of apples. Pic search tombstone. | ||
||1839: August Kundt born ... physicist and educator. Pic. | ||1839: August Kundt born ... physicist and educator. Pic. | ||
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||1919: Mathematician [[Adolf Hurwitz (nonfiction)|Adolf Hurwitz]] died. He worked on algebra, analysis, geometry and number theory. Pic. | ||1919: Mathematician [[Adolf Hurwitz (nonfiction)|Adolf Hurwitz]] died. He worked on algebra, analysis, geometry and number theory. Pic. | ||
||1922: Lawrence Christian Biedenharn, Jr. born ... theoretical nuclear physicist and mathematical physicist, a leading expert on applications of Lie group theory to physics. Biedenharn studied at MIT with an interruption in World War II from 1942 to 1946 as a lieutenant in the Signal Corps in the Pacific theater, where in 1946 he was stationed in Tokyo for a year as a radio officer. He received his bachelor's degree in absentia from MIT. Pic search | ||1922: Lawrence Christian Biedenharn, Jr. born ... theoretical nuclear physicist and mathematical physicist, a leading expert on applications of Lie group theory to physics. Biedenharn studied at MIT with an interruption in World War II from 1942 to 1946 as a lieutenant in the Signal Corps in the Pacific theater, where in 1946 he was stationed in Tokyo for a year as a radio officer. He received his bachelor's degree in absentia from MIT. Pic search. | ||
||1924: Lucien Marie Le Cam born ... mathematician and statistician. Pic. | ||1924: Lucien Marie Le Cam born ... mathematician and statistician. Pic. | ||
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||1928: Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday. | ||1928: Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday. | ||
||1932: Frederick Jelinek born ... researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He is well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up". Pic | ||1932: Frederick Jelinek born ... researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He is well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up". Pic search. | ||
||1941: Walther Nernst dies ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the way for the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic. | ||1941: Walther Nernst dies ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. His formulation of the Nernst heat theorem helped pave the way for the third law of thermodynamics, for which he won the 1920 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic. | ||
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||2016: Jay Wright Forrester dies ... pioneering American computer engineer and systems scientist. He was a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Forrester is known as the founder of system dynamics, which deals with the simulation of interactions between objects in dynamic systems. Pic. | ||2016: Jay Wright Forrester dies ... pioneering American computer engineer and systems scientist. He was a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Forrester is known as the founder of system dynamics, which deals with the simulation of interactions between objects in dynamic systems. Pic. | ||
||2016: Surgeon Denton Arthur Cooley dies. Cooley performed the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Pic. | |||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] to [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: [[Dennis Paulson of Mars|Dennis Paulson]] celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the [[MAVEN (nonfiction)|MAVEN probe]] to [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | ||
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1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.
1831: Physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.
1865: Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in The Saturday Press.
1866: Physicist and crime-fighter Georg Hermann Quincke uses the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1959: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.
1962: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
2013: NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the MAVEN probe to Mars.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Cowries reveals "at least three hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.