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File:Statue of Ibn Rushd in Cordoba.jpg|link=Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|1198: Polymath [[Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|Ibn Rushd]] (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics. | File:Statue of Ibn Rushd in Cordoba.jpg|link=Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|1198: Polymath [[Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|Ibn Rushd]] (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics. | ||
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File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] born. | File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] born. | ||
||1588: Isaac Beeckman born ... scientist and philosopher. Pic search | ||1588: Isaac Beeckman born ... scientist and philosopher. Pic search. | ||
||1626: Edmund Gunter dies ... mathematician and academic. No DOB. No pic online. | ||1626: Edmund Gunter dies ... mathematician and academic. No DOB. No pic online. | ||
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||1851: Karl Freiherr von Drais born ... forest official and significant inventor in the Biedermeier period. Dandy horse. Pic. | ||1851: Karl Freiherr von Drais born ... forest official and significant inventor in the Biedermeier period. Dandy horse. Pic. | ||
File:Margaret Eliza Maltby circa 1908.jpg|link=Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|1860: Physicist [[Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|Margaret Eliza Maltby]] born. She will contribute to the measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions. | File:Margaret Eliza Maltby circa 1908.jpg|link=Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|1860: Physicist [[Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|Margaret Eliza Maltby]] born. She will contribute to the measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions. | ||
||1864: Henry Schoolcraft dies ... geographer, geologist, and ethnologist ... Native Americans. Pic. | ||1864: Henry Schoolcraft dies ... geographer, geologist, and ethnologist ... Native Americans. Pic. | ||
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||1934: Howard Martin Temin born ... geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1934: Howard Martin Temin born ... geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1959: [[Chrome Plover]], the | File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1959: [[Chrome Plover]], the famed [[musical electroplating ensemble]], gives first public performance of ''Ada'', their tribute to [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]]. | ||
||1961: Oded Schramm born ... mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution (SLE) and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory. Pic. | ||1961: Oded Schramm born ... mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution (SLE) and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory. Pic. | ||
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||1968: Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo. Pic: aerial photo. | ||1968: Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo. Pic: aerial photo. | ||
||1973: Wolf V. Vishniac dies ... microbiologist and academic. Mars. Pic search | ||1973: Wolf V. Vishniac dies ... microbiologist and academic. Mars. Pic search. | ||
||1979: Robert Elderfield dies ... chemist. He established the fundamental relationship between the cardiac aglycones and the sterols and bile acids, developed improved techniques for synthesizing primaquine and other antimalarials, and researched new anticancer agents. Pic. | ||1979: Robert Elderfield dies ... chemist. He established the fundamental relationship between the cardiac aglycones and the sterols and bile acids, developed improved techniques for synthesizing primaquine and other antimalarials, and researched new anticancer agents. Pic. | ||
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1989: Animated [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram celebrates the life and work of [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]]. | |File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1989: Animated [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram celebrates the life and work of [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]]. | ||
||1995: Sarvadaman D. S. Chowla dies ... mathematician, specializing in number theory. Among his contributions are a number of results which bear his name: the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem, the Ankeny–Artin–Chowla congruence, the Chowla–Mordell theorem, and the Chowla–Selberg formula, and the Mian–Chowla sequence. Pic: http://www3.canisius.edu/~huard/chowla.html | ||1995: Sarvadaman D. S. Chowla dies ... mathematician, specializing in number theory. Among his contributions are a number of results which bear his name: the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem, the Ankeny–Artin–Chowla congruence, the Chowla–Mordell theorem, and the Chowla–Selberg formula, and the Mian–Chowla sequence. Pic: http://www3.canisius.edu/~huard/chowla.html | ||
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||2011: Ernst Paul Specker dies ... mathematician. Much of his most influential work was on Quine’s New Foundations, a set theory with a universal set, but he is most famous for the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics, showing that certain types of hidden variable theories are impossible. Pic. | ||2011: Ernst Paul Specker dies ... mathematician. Much of his most influential work was on Quine’s New Foundations, a set theory with a universal set, but he is most famous for the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics, showing that certain types of hidden variable theories are impossible. Pic. | ||
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1198: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.
1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler born.
1684: Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
1804: Mathematician and academic Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi born. He will make fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
1815: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace born. She will do pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1831: Physicist and academic Thomas Johann Seebeck dies. He discovered the thermoelectric effect.
1860: Physicist Margaret Eliza Maltby born. She will contribute to the measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions.
1959: Chrome Plover, the famed musical electroplating ensemble, gives first public performance of Ada, their tribute to Ada Lovelace.
1967: Project Gasbuggy underground nuclear test detonation in rural northern New Mexico. Its purpose was to determine if nuclear explosions could be useful in fracturing rock formations for natural gas extraction.