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File:Regiomontanus Nuremberg chronicles.jpg|link=Regiomontanus (nonfiction|1436: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop [[Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|Johann Regiomontanus]] born. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death. | File:Regiomontanus Nuremberg chronicles.jpg|link=Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|1436: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop [[Regiomontanus (nonfiction)|Johann Regiomontanus]] born. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death. | ||
||1519: Andrea Cesalpino born ... philosopher, physician, and botanist. Pic. | ||1519: Andrea Cesalpino born ... philosopher, physician, and botanist. Pic. | ||
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||1580: Godefroy Wendelin born ... astronomer and author. He is credited with recognizing that Kepler's third law applied to the satellites of Jupiter. Pic. | ||1580: Godefroy Wendelin born ... astronomer and author. He is credited with recognizing that Kepler's third law applied to the satellites of Jupiter. Pic. | ||
||1661: Martino Martini dies ... Jesuit missionary, cartographer and historian, mainly working on ancient Imperial China. Pic. | ||1661: Martino Martini dies ... Jesuit missionary, cartographer and historian, mainly working on ancient Imperial China. Pic. | ||
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||1822: Alexis St. Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion. Pic. | ||1822: Alexis St. Martin is accidentally shot in the stomach, leading to William Beaumont's studies on digestion. Pic. | ||
File:Glaciarium.jpg|link=Glaciarium (nonfiction)|1844: The [[Glaciarium (nonfiction)|Glaciarium]], the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens. | File:Glaciarium.jpg|link=Glaciarium (nonfiction)|1844: The [[Glaciarium (nonfiction)|Glaciarium]], the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens in London. | ||
||1850: Karl Ferdinand Braun born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1850: Karl Ferdinand Braun born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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||2013: Eugen Merzbacher dies ... physicist and academic ... applications of quantum mechanics to atomic and nuclear collision theory. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Eugen+Merzbacher | ||2013: Eugen Merzbacher dies ... physicist and academic ... applications of quantum mechanics to atomic and nuclear collision theory. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Eugen+Merzbacher | ||
||2016: Viktor Korchnoi dies ... chess player. | ||2016: Viktor Korchnoi dies ... chess player. | ||
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||2017: Walter Noll dies ... mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for developing mathematical tools of classical mechanics and thermodynamics. | ||2017: Walter Noll dies ... mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He is best known for developing mathematical tools of classical mechanics and thermodynamics. | ||
File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|2017: [[Pin Man]] says he was "constructed by [[ | File:Pin Man.jpg|link=Pin Man|2017: In a press statement, [[Pin Man]] says he was "constructed by [[Colonel Zersetzung]] from the flayed skin of a notorious data thief." | ||
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1436: Mathematician, astronomer, and bishop Johann Regiomontanus born. His contributions will be instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death.
1844: The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens in London.
1857: Mathematician and physicist Aleksandr Lyapunov born. Lyapunov will contribute to several fields, including differential equations, potential theory, dynamical systems and probability theory. His main preoccupations will be the stability of equilibria and the motion of mechanical systems, and the study of particles under the influence of gravity.
1943: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley born. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he will win the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
2017: In a press statement, Pin Man says he was "constructed by Colonel Zersetzung from the flayed skin of a notorious data thief."