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| ||1578: William Harvey born ... physician and academic ... seminal contributions in anatomy and physiology. He was the first known physician to describe completely, and in detail, the systemic circulation and properties of blood being pumped to the brain and body by the heart, though earlier writers had provided precursors of the theory. Pic.
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| File:Sophie Germain.jpg|link=Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|1776: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|Sophie Germain]] born. Germain's work on Fermat's Last Theorem will provide a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after. | | File:Sophie Germain.jpg|link=Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|1776: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|Sophie Germain]] born. Germain's work on Fermat's Last Theorem will provide a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after. |
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| ||1826: Samuel Morey received a patent for a compressionless "Gas or Vapor Engine". Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=samuel+morey
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| ||1850: Chemist Hans von Pechmann born ... he discovered diazomethane in 1894 ... Pechmann condensation and Pechmann pyrazole synthesis. Pic.
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| ||1863: Jakob Steiner dies ... mathematician who worked primarily in geometry. Pic.
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| ||1865: Richard Adolf Zsigmondy born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| ||1872: Martin Ohm dies ... mathematician. He was the first to fully develop the theory of the exponential ab when both a and b are complex numbers in 1823. He is also often credited with introducing the name "golden section" (goldener Schnitt). Pic.
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| ||1895: Mathematician Alexander Craig "Alec" Aitken born. He introduced the concept of generalized least squares, along with now standard vector/matrix notation for the linear regression model. Pic.
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| File:William James Sidis 1914.jpg|link=William James Sidis (nonfiction)|1898: Mathematician and anthropologist [[William James Sidis (nonfiction)|William James Sidis]] born. Sidis will become famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life. | | File:William James Sidis 1914.jpg|link=William James Sidis (nonfiction)|1898: Mathematician and anthropologist [[William James Sidis (nonfiction)|William James Sidis]] born. Sidis will become famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life. |
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| ||1901: François-Marie Raoult dies ... chemist who conducted research into the behavior of solutions, especially their physical properties. Pic.
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| ||1903: Lt. Philip Dalton born ... United States military scientist, pilot and engineer. Dalton is best known for his invention of several slide-rule analog flight computers, the most famous being the E6B. Pic uploaded.
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| ||1914: Sophus Mads Jørgensen dies ... chemist. He is considered one of the founders of coordination chemistry. Pic.
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| ||1916: Sheila May Edmonds born ... mathematician. Pic search.
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| ||1919: Joseph Murray born ... 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."
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| ||1922: Alan Perlis born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=alan+perlis
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| ||1920: Luigi Pigorini dies ... palaeontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer. Pic.
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| ||1960: The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
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| ||1970: Ernst Adolph Guillemin dies ... electrical engineer and computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who spent his career extending the art and science of linear network analysis and synthesis. Pic: http://museum.mit.edu/nom150/entries/1125
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| ||1976: Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in Cupertino, California, USA.
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| ||1989: Jan Aleksander Rajchman dies ... electrical engineer and computer pioneer. Pic: https://www.computerhope.com/people/jan_rajchman.htm
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| ||1994: Cliff Addison dies ... chemist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=cliff+addison+chemist
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| File:RFC 3514 IP EVIL INTENT.jpg|link=Evil bit (nonfiction)|2003: Steve Bellovin publishes Request for Comment 5314, subsequently known as the [[Evil bit (nonfiction)|evil bit]] protocol, a humorous April Fool's Day proposal. | | File:RFC 3514 IP EVIL INTENT.jpg|link=Evil bit (nonfiction)|2003: Steve Bellovin publishes Request for Comment 5314, subsequently known as the [[Evil bit (nonfiction)|evil bit]] protocol, a humorous April Fool's Day proposal. |
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