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||1927: Robert Norton Noyce born ... engineer who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the realization of the first integrated circuit or microchip that fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name. Pic. | ||1927: Robert Norton Noyce born ... engineer who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the realization of the first integrated circuit or microchip that fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name. Pic. | ||
||1928: Stanley Mandelstam born ... theoretical physicist. He introduced the relativistically invariant Mandelstam variables into particle physics in 1958 as a convenient coordinate system for formulating his double dispersion relations. The double dispersion relations were a central tool in the bootstrap program which sought to formulate a consistent theory of infinitely many particle types of increasing spin. Pic seach | ||1928: Stanley Mandelstam born ... theoretical physicist. He introduced the relativistically invariant Mandelstam variables into particle physics in 1958 as a convenient coordinate system for formulating his double dispersion relations. The double dispersion relations were a central tool in the bootstrap program which sought to formulate a consistent theory of infinitely many particle types of increasing spin. Pic seach. | ||
||1955: English engineer Christopher Cockerell files the patent for his new invention, the hovercraft, a craft capable of traveling over land, water, mud or ice and other surfaces both at speed and when stationary. *Yovisto Pic. | ||1955: English engineer Christopher Cockerell files the patent for his new invention, the hovercraft, a craft capable of traveling over land, water, mud or ice and other surfaces both at speed and when stationary. *Yovisto Pic. | ||
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||1969: Years of Lead: Piazza Fontana bombing: The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed. | ||1969: Years of Lead: Piazza Fontana bombing: The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed. | ||
|| | ||1886: Baron William Sylvester de Ropp, originally Sylvester Wilhelm Gotthard von der Ropp born ... British agent involved in dealings with Nazi Germany before and during the Second World War. He was described as one of the most "mysterious and influential clandestine operators" of the era. Pic search. | ||
||1997: Evgenii Landis dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1997: Evgenii Landis dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
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||2001: Ardito Desio dies ... geologist, mountaineer, and cartographer. Desio explored the mountains of Europe, Africa, Asian, and Antarctica. Pic (charming). | ||2001: Ardito Desio dies ... geologist, mountaineer, and cartographer. Desio explored the mountains of Europe, Africa, Asian, and Antarctica. Pic (charming). | ||
||2009: Eugene van Tamelen dies ... organic chemist who is especially recognized for his contributions to bioorganic chemistry. He pioneered in what is today called biomimetic synthesis. Pic search groovy | ||2009: Eugene van Tamelen dies ... organic chemist who is especially recognized for his contributions to bioorganic chemistry. He pioneered in what is today called biomimetic synthesis. Pic search groovy. | ||
||2012: North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using an Unha-3 carrier rocket. | ||2012: North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using an Unha-3 carrier rocket. | ||
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1204: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician Maimonides dies.
1685: Mathematician John Pell dies. He expanded the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.
1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão's publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1862: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
1901: Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
1903: Electrical engineer, inventor, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Nikola Tesla publishes proof that the House of Malevecchio has financed crimes against mathematical constants "for at least five hundred and twelve years."
1921: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt dies. She discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
1967: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and APTO meteorological engineer Akiva Yaglom discovers a Gnomon algorithm function which unifies previous theories of turbulence and random processes. Yaglom's function will quickly find applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against weather.
2016: Do Not Tease Monster voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.