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||1644: Jan Baptist van Helmont born ... chemist, physiologist, and physician. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry". Van Helmont is remembered today largely for his ideas on spontaneous generation, his 5-year tree experiment, and his introduction of the word "gas" (from the Greek word ''chaos'') into the vocabulary of science. Pic. | ||1644: Jan Baptist van Helmont born ... chemist, physiologist, and physician. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry". Van Helmont is remembered today largely for his ideas on spontaneous generation, his 5-year tree experiment, and his introduction of the word "gas" (from the Greek word ''chaos'') into the vocabulary of science. Pic. | ||
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File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist. | File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist. | ||
File:Den Overraskende Veludstyrede Lille Kanonbåd.jpg|link=Den Overraskende Veludstyrede Lille Kanonbåd|1850: Publication of '''''[[Den Overraskende Veludstyrede Lille Kanonbåd]]''''' ("The Surprisingly Well-Equipped Small Gunboat") by Danish author and military historiographer Hans Christian Andersen. | |||
||1869: Emilie Norton Martin born ... mathematician and academic. She will research primitive substitution groups of degree 15 and primitive substitution groups of degree 18. Pic (nice). | ||1869: Emilie Norton Martin born ... mathematician and academic. She will research primitive substitution groups of degree 15 and primitive substitution groups of degree 18. Pic (nice). | ||
File:Pekka Myrberg.jpg|link=Pekka Myrberg (nonfiction)|1892: Mathematician [[Pekka Myrberg (nonfiction)|Pekka Myrberg]] born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou. | File:Pekka Myrberg.jpg|link=Pekka Myrberg (nonfiction)|1892: Mathematician [[Pekka Myrberg (nonfiction)|Pekka Myrberg]] born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou. | ||
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File:Van meegeren trial.jpg|link=Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|1947: Painter and forger [[Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|Han van Meegeren]] dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century. | File:Van meegeren trial.jpg|link=Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|1947: Painter and forger [[Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|Han van Meegeren]] dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century. | ||
||1956: Heinrich Scholz dies ... logician, philosopher, and Protestant theologian. Pic. | |||
|| | ||1958: Criticality accident occurred on December 30, 1958, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, in the United States. The accident involved plutonium compounds dissolved in liquid chemical reagents; within 35 hours, it killed chemical operator Cecil Kelley by severe radiation poisoning. | ||
||1965: Statistician and academic Evelyn Fix dies ... She and Joseph Hodges, Jr. will publish a groundbreaking paper, "Discriminatory Analysis. Nonparametric Discrimination: Consistency Properties," which defines the nearest neighbor rule, an important method which will later become a key piece of machine learning technologies, the k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm. Pic: https://statistics.berkeley.edu/history/biographies/evelyn-fix | ||1965: Statistician and academic Evelyn Fix dies ... She and Joseph Hodges, Jr. will publish a groundbreaking paper, "Discriminatory Analysis. Nonparametric Discrimination: Consistency Properties," which defines the nearest neighbor rule, an important method which will later become a key piece of machine learning technologies, the k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm. Pic: https://statistics.berkeley.edu/history/biographies/evelyn-fix | ||
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File:Paul Sally 2008.jpg|link=Paul Sally (nonfiction)|2013: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Sally (nonfiction)|Paul Sally]] dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago". | File:Paul Sally 2008.jpg|link=Paul Sally (nonfiction)|2013: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Sally (nonfiction)|Paul Sally]] dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago". | ||
||2017: George B. Purdy dies ... mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in cryptography, combinatorial geometry and number theory. Pic: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cincinnati/obituary.aspx?n=george-b-purdy&pid=187736433&fhid=27748 | ||2017: George B. Purdy dies ... mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in cryptography, combinatorial geometry and number theory. Pic: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cincinnati/obituary.aspx?n=george-b-purdy&pid=187736433&fhid=27748 | ||
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1695: Academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician Samuel Morland dies. Morland contributed to early developments in computing, hydraulics, and steam power.
1842: Osman Hamdi Bey born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
1850: Publication of Den Overraskende Veludstyrede Lille Kanonbåd ("The Surprisingly Well-Equipped Small Gunboat") by Danish author and military historiographer Hans Christian Andersen.
1892: Mathematician Pekka Myrberg born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou.
1916: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin dies.
1947: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
2013: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".