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||1786: Michel Eugène Chevreul born ... chemist and academic ... worked with fatty acids led to early applications in the fields of art and science. He is credited with the discovery of margaric acid, creatine, and designing an early form of soap made from animal fats and salt. He lived to 102 and was a pioneer in the field of gerontology. Pic (cool). | ||1786: Michel Eugène Chevreul born ... chemist and academic ... worked with fatty acids led to early applications in the fields of art and science. He is credited with the discovery of margaric acid, creatine, and designing an early form of soap made from animal fats and salt. He lived to 102 and was a pioneer in the field of gerontology. Pic (cool). | ||
||1796: John McKinly dies ... physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware. Pic search | ||1796: John McKinly dies ... physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware. Pic search. | ||
||1821: Hermann von Helmholtz born ... physician and physicist. Pic. | ||1821: Hermann von Helmholtz born ... physician and physicist. Pic. | ||
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||1880: Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze born ... mathematician, famous for the Tietze extension theorem on functions from topological spaces to the real numbers. He also developed the Tietze transformations for group presentations, and was the first to pose the group isomorphism problem. Pic. | ||1880: Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze born ... mathematician, famous for the Tietze extension theorem on functions from topological spaces to the real numbers. He also developed the Tietze transformations for group presentations, and was the first to pose the group isomorphism problem. Pic. | ||
||1887: Friedrich Adolf Paneth born ... chemist. He was considered the greatest authority of his time on volatile hydrides and also made important contributions to the study of the stratosphere. Pic search | ||1887: Friedrich Adolf Paneth born ... chemist. He was considered the greatest authority of his time on volatile hydrides and also made important contributions to the study of the stratosphere. Pic search. | ||
||1895: German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon. Pic. | ||1895: German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon. Pic. | ||
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||1920: Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt born ... physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. Wundt, who noted psychology as a science apart from philosophy and biology, was the first person ever to call himself a psychologist. He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology." Pic. | ||1920: Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt born ... physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. Wundt, who noted psychology as a science apart from philosophy and biology, was the first person ever to call himself a psychologist. He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology." Pic. | ||
||1925: Ernest Henry Nickel born ... mineralogist ... best known as an editor of the ninth edition of the Nickel-Strunz classification together with Karl Hugo Strunz. Pic search | ||1925: Ernest Henry Nickel born ... mineralogist ... best known as an editor of the ninth edition of the Nickel-Strunz classification together with Karl Hugo Strunz. Pic search. | ||
||1937: Albert Heim dies ... geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz. Pic. | ||1937: Albert Heim dies ... geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz. Pic. | ||
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||1965: E. E. Smith dies ... engineer and author. Pic. | ||1965: E. E. Smith dies ... engineer and author. Pic. | ||
||1980: Arthur Sard dies ... mathematician, famous for his work in differential topology and in spline interpolation. His fame stems primarily from Sard's theorem, which says that the set of critical values of a differential function which has sufficiently many derivatives has measure zero. Pic search | ||1980: Arthur Sard dies ... mathematician, famous for his work in differential topology and in spline interpolation. His fame stems primarily from Sard's theorem, which says that the set of critical values of a differential function which has sufficiently many derivatives has measure zero. Pic search. | ||
||2000: John Alexander Simpson dies ... worked as an experimental nuclear, and cosmic ray physicist who was deeply committed to educating the public and political leaders about science and its implications. Pic. | ||2000: John Alexander Simpson dies ... worked as an experimental nuclear, and cosmic ray physicist who was deeply committed to educating the public and political leaders about science and its implications. Pic. | ||
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||2002: George Porter dies ... chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Pic. | ||2002: George Porter dies ... chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Pic. | ||
||2002: Chemist Martin Kaymen dies ... together with Sam Ruben, co-discovered the synthesis of the isotope carbon-14 on February 27, 1940, at the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley. Pic search | ||2002: Chemist Martin Kaymen dies ... together with Sam Ruben, co-discovered the synthesis of the isotope carbon-14 on February 27, 1940, at the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley. Pic search. | ||
||2005: Joseph Rotblat dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||2005: Joseph Rotblat dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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||2006: Edvard Munch's famous painting ''The Scream'', stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police. | ||2006: Edvard Munch's famous painting ''The Scream'', stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police. | ||
||2013: Jan Camiel Willems dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search | ||2013: Jan Camiel Willems dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search. | ||
File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' sells for two and a half million dollars." | File:The Eel Discovers Time Travel.jpg|link=The Eel Discovers Time Travel|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Discovers Time Travel]]'' sells for two and a half million dollars." | ||
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1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter Marin Mersenne uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1899: Georg Cantor writes to Dedekind, remarking that his "diagonal process" could be used to show that the power set of a set has more elements than the set itself.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
1950: Mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel addresses the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on his work in relativity theory.
2006: Flow Chart voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."