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||1916: Microbiologist and academic Roger Stanier born. Stanier will be influential in the development of modern microbiology, making important contributions to the taxonomy of bacteria, including the classification of blue-green algae as cyanobacteria. Pic. | ||1916: Microbiologist and academic Roger Stanier born. Stanier will be influential in the development of modern microbiology, making important contributions to the taxonomy of bacteria, including the classification of blue-green algae as cyanobacteria. Pic. | ||
||1920: Timothy Leary born ... psychologist and writer known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. Pic. | |||
||1921: Alexander Kronrod born ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic. | ||1921: Alexander Kronrod born ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic. | ||
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||1979: Reinhold Baer dies ... mathematician, known for his work in algebra. He introduced injective modules in 1940. He is the eponym of Baer rings and Baer groups. Pic. | ||1979: Reinhold Baer dies ... mathematician, known for his work in algebra. He introduced injective modules in 1940. He is the eponym of Baer rings and Baer groups. Pic. | ||
||2002: Irene Fischer dies ... geodesist and mathematician. Pic search | ||2002: Irene Fischer dies ... geodesist and mathematician. Pic search. | ||
||2002: Richard Helms dies ... American intelligence agent and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence. | ||2002: Richard Helms dies ... American intelligence agent and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence. | ||
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1659: Chemist and physician Georg Ernst Stahl born. His works on phlogiston will be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.
1792: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil dies. He discovered what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).
1879: Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
1893: Cryptologist Laurance Safford born. Safford will establish the Naval cryptologic organization after World War I, and head the effort more or less constantly until shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
1905: Physicist and engineer Karl Guthe Jansky born. He will be one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
1922: Chemist Marc Julia born. Julia (along with his colleague Jean-Marc Paris) will discover the Julia olefination reaction in 1973.
1927: Physicist, engineer, and inventor Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power.
2005: The Venus Express detects evidence of electrical artificial intelligence AESOP in orbit around the planet Venus.
2018: Signed first edition of Dragons Fighting sells for undisclosed amount to "a well-known Gnomon algorithm theorist" in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.