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| ||1625 – Johann Bayer, German lawyer and cartographer (b. 1572)
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| | File:Joseph_Nicéphore_Niépce.jpg|link=Nicéphore Niépce (nonfiction)|1765: Inventor [[Nicéphore Niépce (nonfiction)|Nicéphore Niépce]] born. He will invent heliography, a technique he will use to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process. |
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| ||1765 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor, invented photography (d. 1833)
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| File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1788: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] born. He will pioneer the study of electric and luminescent phenomena. | | File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1788: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] born. He will pioneer the study of electric and luminescent phenomena. |
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| ||1792 – John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
| | File:G I Taylor.jpg|link=G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|1886: Mathematician and physicist [[G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|G. I. Taylor]] born. He will make major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory. |
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| ||1809 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight (b. 1753)
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| ||1837 – Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
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| ||1839 – Ludwig Mond, German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (d. 1909)
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| ||1857 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1940)
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| ||Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch (b. 7 March 1857) was a German chemist. Pic.
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| File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1876: [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)]] is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
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| File:Gambling Den Fight.jpg|link=Gambling Den Fight|1875: ''[[Gambling Den Fight]]'' wins Royal Society award for most exciting new illustration of the year.
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| File:G I Taylor.jpg|link=G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|1886: Mathematician and physicist [[G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|G. I. Taylor]] born. He will make major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory. | |
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| ||Ernst Leonard Lindelöf (b. 7 March 1870) was a Finnish mathematician, who made contributions in real analysis, complex analysis and topology. Lindelöf spaces are named after him. Pic.
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| ||Takeo Yoshikawa (b. March 7, 1914) was a Japanese spy in Hawaii before the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
| | File:Betty Holberton.jpg|link=Betty Holberton (nonfiction)|1917: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer [[Betty Holberton (nonfiction)|Betty Holberton]] born. She will be one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and the inventor of breakpoints in computer debugging. |
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| ||Gustav Adolph Kenngott (d. March 7, 1897) was a German mineralogist. | |
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| ||1900: Physicist and academic Fritz Wolfgang London born. He will make fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces (London dispersion forces). With his brother Heinz London, he will make a significant contribution to understanding electromagnetic properties of superconductors with the London equations. | |
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| ||1917 – Betty Holberton, American engineer and programmer (d. 2001)
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| ||1922 – Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 2004)
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| ||Axel Thue (d. 7 March 1922), was a Norwegian mathematician, known for highly original work in diophantine approximation, and combinatorics. He stated in 1914 the so-called word problem for semigroups or Thue problem, closely related to the halting problem.
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| ||Ray Alden Kunze (b. March 7, 1928) was an American mathematician who chaired the mathematics departments at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Georgia.[1][2] His mathematical research concerned the representation theory of groups and noncommutative harmonic analysis.
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| File:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.jpg|link=D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|1937: [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to communicate with [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]].
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| File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1950: Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] served as a Soviet spy. | | File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1950: Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] served as a Soviet spy. |
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| ||1954 – Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
| | File:Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer.jpg|link=Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1)|2019: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1)]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least two-hundred and fifty-six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions. |
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| ||John Ronald Womersley (d. 7 March 1958) was a British mathematician and computer scientist who made important contributions to computer development, and hemodynamics. Nowadays he is principally remembered for his contribution to blood flow, fluid dynamics and the eponymous Womersley number, a dimensionless parameter characterising unsteady flow.
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| ||Eduard Rüchardt (d. March 7, 1962) was a German physicist. In modern times Rüchardt is mainly noted for the experiment named after him. However, Rüchardt's chief topic was the study of canal rays.
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| ||1971 – Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (b. 1930)
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| ||Arthur Batcheller (d. March 7, 1978) was a pioneer in early radio. Pic.
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| ||1982 – Ida Barney, American astronomer, mathematician, and academic (b. 1886)
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| ||Edward Mills Purcell (d. March 7, 1997) was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures. | |
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| ||1986 – Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
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| ||1997 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
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| ||1999 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (b. 1918)
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| ||1999 – Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1928) Stanley Kubrick (d. March 7, 1999) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer, editor, and photographer. He is frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic history. His films, which are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a wide range of genres, and are noted for their realism, dark humor, unique cinematography, extensive set designs, and evocative use of music.
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| ||David Gale (d. March 7, 2008) was an American mathematician and economist. He was a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with the departments of mathematics, economics, and industrial engineering and operations research. He has contributed to the fields of mathematical economics, game theory, and convex analysis.
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| ||Hans Georg Dehmelt (d. 7 March 2017) was a German and American physicist, who was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique (Penning trap) with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the prize (the other half of the Prize in that year was awarded to Norman Foster Ramsey). Their technique was used for high precision measurement of the electron magnetic moment. Pic.
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