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||1805: Robert FitzRoy born ... captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand ... "forecasts". Pic. | ||1805: Robert FitzRoy born ... captain, meteorologist, and politician, 2nd Governor of New Zealand ... "forecasts". Pic. | ||
||1817: Karl Christoph Vogt dies ... scientist, philosopher and politician | ||1817: Karl Christoph Vogt dies ... scientist, philosopher and politician. Pic. | ||
||1820: William John Macquorn Rankine born ... physicist, mathematician, and engineer. | ||1820: William John Macquorn Rankine born ... physicist, mathematician, and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1826: Joseph Louis Proust dies ... chemist. He was best known for his discovery of the law of constant composition in 1794, stating that chemical compounds always combine in constant proportions. | ||1826: Joseph Louis Proust dies ... chemist. He was best known for his discovery of the law of constant composition in 1794, stating that chemical compounds always combine in constant proportions. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joseph+Louis+Proust | ||
||1826: | ||1826: Stamford Raffles dies ... British statesman, Lieutenant-Governor of British Java (1811–1815) and Governor-General of Bencoolen (1817–1822), best known for his founding of Modern Singapore. Pic. | ||
||1833: Nicéphore Niépce dies . | File:Joseph_Nicéphore_Niépce.jpg|link=Nicéphore Niépce (nonfiction)|1833: Inventor [[Nicéphore Niépce (nonfiction)|Nicéphore Niépce]] dies. He invented heliography, a technique which he used to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process. | ||
||1859: Charles Cagniard de la Tour dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=charles+cagniard+de+la+tour | ||1859: Charles Cagniard de la Tour dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=charles+cagniard+de+la+tour | ||
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||1874: Eugen Fischer born ... physician and academic ... Nazi. Pic (chilling). | ||1874: Eugen Fischer born ... physician and academic ... Nazi. Pic (chilling). | ||
||1888: Herbert Spencer Gasser born ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1888: Herbert Spencer Gasser born ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1888: Louise Freeland Jenkins born ... astronomer and academic. | ||1888: Louise Freeland Jenkins born ... astronomer and academic. Compiled a valuable catalogue of stars within 10 parsecs of the sun; edited the 3rd edition of the Yale Bright Star Catalogue. Pic. | ||
||1891: John Howard Northrop born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1891: John Howard Northrop born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1892: Geologist and Arctic explorer Lauge Koch born; expeditions to Greenland. Pic. | |||
||1904: Ernst Mayr born ... biologist and ornithologist ... taxonomy, speciation. Pic. | ||1904: Ernst Mayr born ... biologist and ornithologist ... taxonomy, speciation. Pic. | ||
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|File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1906: Paul | ||1906: Paul Drude dies ... physicist specializing in optics. He wrote a fundamental textbook integrating optics with Maxwell's theories of electromagnetism. In 1894 he was responsible for introducing the symbol "c" for the speed of light in a perfect vacuum. Pic. | ||
||1911: Endel Aruja born ... physicist and academic. | ||1911: Endel Aruja born ... physicist and academic. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=Endel+Aruja | ||
||1911: George Johnstone Stoney dies ... physicist. He is most famous for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity". Pic. | ||1911: George Johnstone Stoney dies ... physicist. He is most famous for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity". Pic. | ||
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||1932: René-Louis Baire dies ... mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. Pic. | ||1932: René-Louis Baire dies ... mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. Pic. | ||
File:Oskar Bolza.jpg|link=Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|1942: Mathematician [[Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|Oskar Bolza]] dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory. | File:Oskar Bolza.jpg|link=Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|1942: Mathematician [[Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|Oskar Bolza]] dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory. | ||
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||2015: Yoichiro Nambu dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||2015: Yoichiro Nambu dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||2018: Evgeny Golod dies ... mathematician who proved the Golod–Shafarevich theorem on class field towers. As an application, he gave a negative solution to the Kurosh–Levitzky problem on the nilpotency of finitely generated nil algebras, and so to a weak form of Burnside's problem. Pic: http://www.advgrouptheory.com/GTArchivum/Pictures/gtphotos.html | ||2018: Evgeny Golod dies ... mathematician who proved the Golod–Shafarevich theorem on class field towers. As an application, he gave a negative solution to the Kurosh–Levitzky problem on the nilpotency of finitely generated nil algebras, and so to a weak form of Burnside's problem. Pic: http://www.advgrouptheory.com/GTArchivum/Pictures/gtphotos.html | ||
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1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"). Principia states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).
1833: Inventor Nicéphore Niépce dies. He invented heliography, a technique which he used to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process.
1942: Mathematician Oskar Bolza dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory.
2009: Discovery of the Staffordshire hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.