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||2012: Sergey Kapitsa dies ... physicist and demographer ... best known as host of the popular and long-running Russian scientific TV show, Evident, but Incredible. Pic.
||2012: Sergey Kapitsa dies ... physicist and demographer ... best known as host of the popular and long-running Russian scientific TV show, Evident, but Incredible. Pic.


File:Green Tangle 4.jpg|link=Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|2018: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|Green Tangle 4]]'' reveals "five, possibly six" previously unknown shades of [[Green (nonfiction)|green]].
File:Green Tangle 4.jpg|link=Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|2018: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|Green Tangle 4]]'' reveals "five, possibly six" previously unknown hues of [[Green (nonfiction)|green]].


||2017: Thomas L. Saaty dies ... inventor, architect, and primary theoretician of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a decision-making framework used for large-scale, multiparty, multi-criteria decision analysis, and of the Analytic Network Process (ANP), its generalization to decisions with dependence and feedback. Pic.
||2017: Thomas L. Saaty dies ... inventor, architect, and primary theoretician of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a decision-making framework used for large-scale, multiparty, multi-criteria decision analysis, and of the Analytic Network Process (ANP), its generalization to decisions with dependence and feedback. Pic.


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  • 1552: Statesman, scientist, and historian Paolo Sarpi born. He will be a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.

    1552: Statesman, scientist, and historian Paolo Sarpi born. He will be a proponent of the Copernican system, a friend and patron of Galileo Galilei, and a keen follower of the latest research on anatomy, astronomy, and ballistics at the University of Padua.

  • 1749: Mathematician, geophysicist, naval architect, and cryptid hunter Pierre Bouguer publishes Traité du navire cryptide, his landmark study of aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.

    1749: Mathematician, geophysicist, naval architect, and cryptid hunter Pierre Bouguer publishes Traité du navire cryptide, his landmark study of aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.

  • 1777: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.

    1777: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted born. He will discover that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.

  • 1888: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird born. He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television.

    1888: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird born. He will be one of the inventors of the mechanical television.

  • 1909: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley dies. He designed and manufactured precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.

    1909: Inventor, engineer, and philanthropist William Stanley dies. He designed and manufactured precision drawing and mathematical instruments, as well as surveying instruments and telescopes.

  • 1910: "The Safe-Cracker does not show me committing a math crime," says art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it."

    1910: "The Safe-Cracker does not show me committing a math crime," says art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel. "I was looking for evidence that I was framed. And I found it."

  • 2014: Scientists announce the identification of possible interstellar dust particles from the Stardust capsule, which returned to Earth in 2006.

    2014: Scientists announce the identification of possible interstellar dust particles from the Stardust capsule, which returned to Earth in 2006.

  • 2018: Chromatographic analysis of Green Tangle 4 reveals "five, possibly six" previously unknown hues of green.

    2018: Chromatographic analysis of Green Tangle 4 reveals "five, possibly six" previously unknown hues of green.

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