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||1779: Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger born ... chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics. Pic. | ||1779: Johann Salomo Christoph Schweigger born ... chemist, physicist, and professor of mathematics. Pic. | ||
||1803: Louis François Antoine Arbogast dies ... mathematician. He wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name: he was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity. Pic search | ||1803: Louis François Antoine Arbogast dies ... mathematician. He wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name: he was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity. Pic search. | ||
||1817: Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard born ... physiologist and neurologist who, in 1850, became the first to describe what is now called Brown-Séquard syndrome. Pic. | ||1817: Charles-Édouard Brown-Séquard born ... physiologist and neurologist who, in 1850, became the first to describe what is now called Brown-Séquard syndrome. Pic. | ||
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||1911: Melvin Calvin born ... biochemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic. | ||1911: Melvin Calvin born ... biochemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic. | ||
||1913: Gyula Kőnig dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1913: Gyula Kőnig dies ... mathematician. His work on polynomial ideals, discriminants and elimination theory can be considered as a link between Leopold Kronecker and David Hilbert as well as Emmy Noether. Pic. | ||
File:Ernst_Ruhmer,_Technical_World_cover_(1905).jpg|link=Ernst Ruhmer (nonfiction)|1913: Physicist [[Ernst Ruhmer (nonfiction)|Ernst Ruhmer]] dies. Ruhmer invented applications for the light-sensitivity properties of selenium, including wireless telephony using line-of-sight optical transmissions, sound-on-film audio recording, and television transmissions over wires. | File:Ernst_Ruhmer,_Technical_World_cover_(1905).jpg|link=Ernst Ruhmer (nonfiction)|1913: Physicist [[Ernst Ruhmer (nonfiction)|Ernst Ruhmer]] dies. Ruhmer invented applications for the light-sensitivity properties of selenium, including wireless telephony using line-of-sight optical transmissions, sound-on-film audio recording, and television transmissions over wires. | ||
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||1919: Loránd Eötvös dies ... physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education. Pic. | ||1919: Loránd Eötvös dies ... physicist, academic, and politician, Hungarian Minister of Education. Pic. | ||
||1923: George Fisher born ... cartoonist. Pic search | ||1923: George Fisher born ... cartoonist. Pic search. | ||
||1934: Kisho Kurokawa born ... architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower; he was one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement. Pic. | ||1934: Kisho Kurokawa born ... architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower; he was one of the founders of the Metabolist Movement. Pic. | ||
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||1964: The Gemini 1 test flight is conducted. | ||1964: The Gemini 1 test flight is conducted. | ||
||1969: Zinaida Aksentyeva dies ... astronomer. Pic search | ||1969: Zinaida Aksentyeva dies ... astronomer. Pic search. | ||
||1984: Pyotr Kapitsa dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1984: Pyotr Kapitsa dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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1461: Mathematician and astronomer Georg von Peuerbach dies. Peuerbach is remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum.
1541: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati born. Mercati will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse born. Rittenhouse will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1858: Mathematician and alleged time-traveller John Havelock publishes his monumental three-volume Gnomonic biography of David Rittenhouse. Although the biography will not sell well in Havelock's day, the book will come to be seen as foundational to modern mathematical crime-fighting.
1859: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl born. Husserl will argue that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.
1903: Mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone born. Stone will contribute to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures.
1904: Mystic and thrill-seeker Aleister Crowley transcribes the first chapter of The Book of the Law.
1911: Physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
1913: Physicist Ernst Ruhmer dies. Ruhmer invented applications for the light-sensitivity properties of selenium, including wireless telephony using line-of-sight optical transmissions, sound-on-film audio recording, and television transmissions over wires.
1959: A team of computer manufacturers, users, and university people led by Grace Hopper meets to discuss the creation of a new programming language that would be called COBOL.
2001: New Minneapolis-based dance company Rhizolith Group announces world tour.
2008: Mathematician Graham Higman dies. In mathematics, Higman contributed to group theory. Higman, a conscientious objector, worked at the Meteorological Office in Northern Ireland and Gibraltar during the Second World War.
2016: Signed first edition of Boxes purchased for an undisclosed amount by "an eminent mathematician residing in New Minneapolis, Canada."
2017: Mathematician Donald Sarason dies. Sarason made fundamental advances in the areas of Hardy space theory and Vanishing mean oscillation (VMO).