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||1621: Ralph Agas dies ... surveyor and cartographer. | ||1621: Ralph Agas dies ... surveyor and cartographer. No DOB. Pic: map. | ||
File:Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan.png|link=Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|1678: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist [[Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan]] born. His observations and experiments will inspire the beginning of what | File:Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan.png|link=Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|1678: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist [[Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan (nonfiction)|Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan]] born. His observations and experiments will inspire the beginning of what | ||
||1810: William George Armstrong born ... industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist. In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery. Pic. | ||1810: William George Armstrong born ... industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist. In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery. Pic. | ||
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||1864: Auguste Charlois born ... astronomer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Auguste+Charlois | ||1864: Auguste Charlois born ... astronomer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Auguste+Charlois | ||
||1876: Willis Carrier dies ... engineer, invented air conditioning. | ||1876: Willis Carrier dies ... engineer, invented air conditioning. Pic. | ||
||1885: Thomas Andrews dies ... chemist and physicist. | ||1885: Thomas Andrews dies ... chemist and physicist ... did important work on phase transitions between gases and liquids. Pic. | ||
||1894: Norbert Wiener born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic. | ||1894: Norbert Wiener born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic. | ||
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||1898: Karl Ziegler born ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1898: Karl Ziegler born ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1901: William Sterling "Deak" Parsons born . | File:Rear Admiral Deak Parsons.jpg|link=William Sterling Parsons (nonfiction)|1901: [[William Sterling Parsons (nonfiction)|American naval officer William Sterling "Deak" Parsons]] born. Parsons will serve as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II. | ||
||1918: Francis Harry Hinsley born . | File:Harry Hinsley.jpg|link=Harry Hinsley (nonfiction)|1918: Historian and cryptanalyst [[Harry Hinsley (nonfiction)|Francis Harry Hinsley]] born. Hinsley will work at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and write widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the war. | ||
||1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. | ||1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years. | ||
||1922: Charles M. Schulz born ... cartoonist, created Peanuts. | ||1922: Charles M. Schulz born ... cartoonist, created Peanuts. Pic. | ||
||1926: John Browning dies ... weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company. | ||1926: John Browning dies ... weapons designer, founded the Browning Arms Company. Pic. | ||
||Yash Pal born ... scientist, educator and educationist. He was known for his contributions to the study of cosmic rays, as well as for being an institution-builder. In his later years, he became one of India's leading science communicators. Pic. | ||Yash Pal born ... scientist, educator and educationist. He was known for his contributions to the study of cosmic rays, as well as for being an institution-builder. In his later years, he became one of India's leading science communicators. Pic. | ||
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||1999: John L. Kelley dies ... mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who worked in general topology and functional analysis. Pic. | ||1999: John L. Kelley dies ... mathematician at University of California, Berkeley who worked in general topology and functional analysis. Pic. | ||
File:Fermentation.jpg|link=Fermentation|Signed first edition of '''''[[Fermentation]]''''' stolen from the Louvre in a daring broad-daylight robbery by criminal mathematical generated by the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang. | |||
File:Mars_Science_Laboratory.jpg|link=Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|2011: The [[Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|Mars Science Laboratory]] launches to Mars with the ''Curiosity'' Rover. | File:Mars_Science_Laboratory.jpg|link=Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|2011: The [[Mars Science Laboratory (nonfiction)|Mars Science Laboratory]] launches to Mars with the ''Curiosity'' Rover. | ||
||2012: Joseph Murray dies ... surgeon and soldier, Nobel Prize | ||2012: Joseph Murray dies ... surgeon and soldier ... performed the first successful human kidney transplant on identical twins Richard and Ronald Herrick on December 23, 1954. Murray shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1990 with E. Donnall Thomas for their discoveries concerning "organ and cell transplantation in the treatment of human disease." | ||
||2014: Marvin Leonard Goldberger dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic. | ||2014: Marvin Leonard Goldberger dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic. | ||
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1678: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan born. His observations and experiments will inspire the beginning of what
1901: American naval officer William Sterling "Deak" Parsons born. Parsons will serve as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II.
1918: Historian and cryptanalyst Francis Harry Hinsley born. Hinsley will work at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and write widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the war.
Signed first edition of Fermentation stolen from the Louvre in a daring broad-daylight robbery by criminal mathematical generated by the Forbidden Ratio gang.
2011: The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.