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File:Gaspard Monge.jpg|link=Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|1818: Mathematician and engineer [[Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|Gaspard Monge]] dies. He invented descriptive geometry, and did pioneering work in differential geometry. | File:Gaspard Monge.jpg|link=Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|1818: Mathematician and engineer [[Gaspard Monge (nonfiction)|Gaspard Monge]] dies. He invented descriptive geometry, and did pioneering work in differential geometry. | ||
||1825: John Gough dies ... natural and experimental philosopher who is known for his own investigations as well as the influence he had on both John Dalton and William Whewell. | ||1825: John Gough dies ... natural and experimental philosopher who is known for his own investigations as well as the influence he had on both John Dalton and William Whewell. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Gough | ||
||1866: Metric system approved in the U.S. The first Act of Congress legalizing the employment of the metric system was approved (14 Stat. L. 339). The act provided that it "shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the metric system." | ||1866: Metric system approved in the U.S. The first Act of Congress legalizing the employment of the metric system was approved (14 Stat. L. 339). The act provided that it "shall be lawful throughout the United States of America to employ the weights and measures of the metric system." | ||
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File:Karl Popper.jpg|link=Karl Popper (nonfiction)|1902: Philosopher and academic [[Karl Popper (nonfiction)|Karl Popper]] born. He will be known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favor of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments. | File:Karl Popper.jpg|link=Karl Popper (nonfiction)|1902: Philosopher and academic [[Karl Popper (nonfiction)|Karl Popper]] born. He will be known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favor of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments. | ||
||1909: Arthur Sard born ... 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. | File:Pavel Cherenkov.jpg|link=Pavel Cherenkov (nonfiction)|1904: Physicist and academic [[Pavel Cherenkov (nonfiction)|Pavel Cherenkov]] born. Cherenkov will share the 1958 Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for their discovery (1934) of Cherenkov radiation. | ||
||1909: Arthur Sard born ... 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 yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Arthur+Sard | |||
||1912: Ugo Fano born ... physicist. He will have a major impact in sustained work over six decades on atomic physics and molecular physics, and earlier on radiological physics. Phenomena named after him will include the Fano resonance profile, the Fano factor, the Fano effect. Pic. | ||1912: Ugo Fano born ... physicist. He will have a major impact in sustained work over six decades on atomic physics and molecular physics, and earlier on radiological physics. Phenomena named after him will include the Fano resonance profile, the Fano factor, the Fano effect. Pic. | ||
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||1915: Charles Hard Townes born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... inventor of the maser and laser. Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated with both maser and laser devices. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics during 1964 with Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov. | ||1915: Charles Hard Townes born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... inventor of the maser and laser. Townes worked on the theory and application of the maser, for which he obtained the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics associated with both maser and laser devices. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics during 1964 with Nikolay Basov and Alexander Prokhorov. | ||
||1922: Jacques Piccard born ... oceanographer and engineer. | ||1922: Jacques Piccard born ... oceanographer and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1923: Herbert John Ryser born ... professor of mathematics, widely regarded as one of the major figures in combinatorics in the 20th century. He is the namesake of the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem and Ryser's formula for the computation of the permanent of a matrix. Pic. | ||1923: Herbert John Ryser born ... professor of mathematics, widely regarded as one of the major figures in combinatorics in the 20th century. He is the namesake of the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem and Ryser's formula for the computation of the permanent of a matrix. Pic. | ||
||1925: Baruch Samuel Blumberg born ... physician and | ||1925: Baruch Samuel Blumberg born ... physician, geneticist, and co-recipient of the 1976 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (with Daniel Carleton Gajdusek), for "discoveries concerning new mechanisms for the origin and dissemination of infectious diseases." Blumberg identified the hepatitis B virus, and later developed its diagnostic test and vaccine. Pic. | ||
||1930: Allvar Gullstrand dies ... ophthalmologist and optician. He applied the methods of physical mathematics to the study of optical images and of the refraction of light in the eye. For this work, he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1911. Pic. | |||
||1931: Emil Gabriel Warburg dies ... physicist. He carried out research in the areas of kinetic theory of gases, electrical conductivity, gas discharges, heat radiation, ferromagnetism and photochemistry. | ||1931: Emil Gabriel Warburg dies ... physicist. He carried out research in the areas of kinetic theory of gases, electrical conductivity, gas discharges, heat radiation, ferromagnetism and photochemistry. Pic. | ||
File:Bonus marchers.gif|link=Bonus Army (nonfiction)|1932: U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the [[Bonus Army (nonfiction)|Bonus Army]]. | File:Bonus marchers.gif|link=Bonus Army (nonfiction)|1932: U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the [[Bonus Army (nonfiction)|Bonus Army]]. | ||
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||1939: The Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered. | ||1939: The Sutton Hoo helmet is discovered. | ||
||1942: William Matthew Flinders Petrie dies ... Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts. | ||1942: William Matthew Flinders Petrie dies ... Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts. Pic. | ||
||1944: Ralph Howard Fowler dies ... physicist and astronomer. | ||1944: Ralph Howard Fowler dies ... physicist and astronomer. Pic. | ||
||1956: Luigi Fantappiè dies ... mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and for creating the theory of analytic functionals. Pic. | ||1956: Luigi Fantappiè dies ... mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis and for creating the theory of analytic functionals. Pic. | ||
||1965: Alvin C. Graves dies ... nuclear physicist who served at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory and the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. After the war, he became the head of J (Test) Division at Los Alamos, and was director or assistant director of numerous nuclear weapons tests during the 1940s and 1950s. Graves was badly injured in the 1946 laboratory criticality accident in Los Alamos that killed Louis Slotin, but recovered. Pic. | |||
File:Otto Hahn 1970.jpg|link=Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|1968: Chemist and academic [[Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|Otto Hahn]] dies. He pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission. | File:Otto Hahn 1970.jpg|link=Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|1968: Chemist and academic [[Otto Hahn (nonfiction)|Otto Hahn]] dies. He pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission. | ||
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File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon. | File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon. | ||
||1980: Rose Rand dies ... logician and philosopher. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Rose+Rand&oq=Rose+Rand | |||
||1980: Rose Rand dies ... logician and philosopher. | |||
||1983: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Starbird dies | ||1983: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Starbird dies | ||
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||1998: Mathematician James J. Andrews dies ... Pic: http://urbanareas.net/info/andrews-james-j-mathematician/ | ||1998: Mathematician James J. Andrews dies ... Pic: http://urbanareas.net/info/andrews-james-j-mathematician/ | ||
||1999: Trygve Haavelmo dies ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1999: Trygve Haavelmo dies ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2000: Abraham Pais dies ... physicist and historian. | ||2000: Abraham Pais dies ... physicist and historian. Pic. | ||
||2002: Archer John Porter Martin dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||2002: Archer John Porter Martin dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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||2011: Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt dies ... mathematician, who worked on algebraic number theory ... Leopoldt's conjecture Pic. | ||2011: Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt dies ... mathematician, who worked on algebraic number theory ... Leopoldt's conjecture Pic. | ||
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1619: Astronomer Johannes Kepler writes to Napier expressing his enthusiasm for Napier's invention of logarithms.
1818: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge dies. He invented descriptive geometry, and did pioneering work in differential geometry.
1899: Georg Cantor asked Richard Dedekind whether the set of all cardinal numbers is itself a set, because, if it is, it would have a cardinal number larger than any other cardinal.
1902: Philosopher and academic Karl Popper born. He will be known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method, in favor of empirical falsification: A theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can and should be scrutinized by decisive experiments.
1904: Physicist and academic Pavel Cherenkov born. Cherenkov will share the 1958 Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for their discovery (1934) of Cherenkov radiation.
1932: U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the Bonus Army.
1968: Chemist and academic Otto Hahn dies. He pioneered the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry, winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission.
1974: Watergate scandal: The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.