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||1486: Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa dies ... magician, astrologer, and theologian. Pic.
||1637: Pierre Vernier dies ... was a French mathematician and instrument inventor. He was inventor and eponym of the vernier scale used in measuring devices. Pic: device.
||1637: Pierre Vernier dies ... was a French mathematician and instrument inventor. He was inventor and eponym of the vernier scale used in measuring devices. Pic: device.


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File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1713: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.
File:Johannes Kies.jpg|link=Johann Kies (nonfiction)|1713: Astronomer and mathematician [[Johann Kies (nonfiction)|Johann Kies]] born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.


||1769: Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt born ... polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.
||1769: Alexander von Humboldt born ... polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. Pic.


||1837: Nikolai Bugaev born ... mathematician and philosopher.
||1835: Astronomer and churchman John Mortimer Brinkley dies. He contributed to stellar astronomy, publishing his ''Elements of Plane Astronomy'' in 1808. Pic search.


||1847: William Edward Ayrton born ... physicist and electrical engineer.
||1837: Nikolai Bugaev born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic.
 
||1847: William Edward Ayrton born ... physicist and electrical engineer. Pic.


||1870: Carl August von Steinheil dies ... physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer. Pic.
||1870: Carl August von Steinheil dies ... physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer. Pic.


||1879: Karl Heinrich Emil Becker born ... weapons engineer and artillery general. He advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development.
||1873: Simion Stoilow born ... mathematician and academic. He contributed to complex analysis. Pic.


||1887: Karl Taylor Compton born ... physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948
File:Karl_Heinrich_Emil_Becker.jpg|link=Karl Heinrich Emil Becker (nonfiction)|1879: Weapons engineer and army officer [[Karl Heinrich Emil Becker (nonfiction)|Karl Heinrich Emil Becker]] born. He will promote the integration of scientific research into military goals, notably advanced weapons design.


||1891: Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov born ... mathematician and academic ... one of the creators of modern analytic number theory.
||1887: Karl Taylor Compton born ... physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948. Pic.


File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1894: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]] declines to invest in [[transdimensional corporation]], denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
||1891: Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov born ... mathematician and academic ... one of the creators of modern analytic number theory. Pic search.


||1906: Franz Rellich born ... mathematician. He made important contributions in mathematical physics, in particular for the foundations of quantum mechanics and for the theory of partial differential equations. The Rellich–Kondrachov theorem is named after him.
||1901: Chemist Richard Helmuth Frederick Manske born. First synthesized DMT. Pic: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89667801/richard-helmuth_frederick-manske


||1913: Rubby Sherr born ... physicist and academic.
||1906: Franz Rellich born ... mathematician. He made important contributions in mathematical physics, in particular for the foundations of quantum mechanics and for the theory of partial differential equations. The Rellich–Kondrachov theorem is named after him. Pic.


||1916: José Echegaray dies ... engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1912: Georg Landsberg dies ... mathematician, known for his work in the theory of algebraic functions and on the Riemann–Roch theorem. The Takagi–Landsberg curve, a fractal that is the graph of a nowhere-differentiable but uniformly continuous function, is named after Teiji Takagi and him. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georg_Landsberg_(HeidICON_28864).jpg
 
||1913: Rubby Sherr born ... nuclear physicist and academic. Pic search.
 
||1915: John Dobson born ... astronomer and author .. best known for the Dobsonian telescope, a portable, low-cost Newtonian reflector telescope; also known for his efforts to promote awareness of astronomy (and his unorthodox views of physical cosmology) through public lectures including his performances of "sidewalk astronomy." Pic.
 
||1916: José Echegaray dies ... engineer, mathematician, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:Pierre Duhem.jpg|link=Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian [[Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|Pierre Duhem]] dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
File:Pierre Duhem.jpg|link=Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian [[Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|Pierre Duhem]] dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."


File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Ypres ruins 1915.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
||1918: Mathematician C. S. Venkataraman born. He specialised in the Theory of numbers and his forte was the Theory of Arithmetic Functions. Pic.


||1918: Mathematician C. S. Venkataraman born. He specialised in the Theory of numbers and his forte was the Theory of Arithmetic Functions. Pic.
||1920: Alberto Calderón born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1920: Alberto Calderón born ... mathematician and academic.
||1926: John Louis Emil Dreyer dies ... astronomer. Pic.


||1926: John Louis Emil Dreyer dies ... astronomer.
||1930: Eugene I. Gordon born ... physicist and engineer. Pic.


||1930: Eugene I. Gordon born ... physicist and engineer.
||1942: E. S. dies born ... philanthropist and eugenicist, founded the Human Betterment Foundation. Pic.


||1954: In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village. == A tactical weapon based on the RDS-4 was also used on September 14, 1954 during Snowball military exercise near Totskoye (similar to Western Desert Rock exercises), when the bomb was dropped by the Tu-4 bomber (the copy of American B-29 bomber). The purpose of this exercise was not to test the bomb itself, but the ability of using it while breaking through enemy defenses (presumably in West Germany).
||1954: In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village. == A tactical weapon based on the RDS-4 was also used on September 14, 1954 during Snowball military exercise near Totskoye (similar to Western Desert Rock exercises), when the bomb was dropped by the Tu-4 bomber (the copy of American B-29 bomber). The purpose of this exercise was not to test the bomb itself, but the ability of using it while breaking through enemy defenses (presumably in West Germany).


||1959: The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
||1960: Arthur Percy Morris Fleming dies ... electrical engineer, researcher director, and engineering educator. Pic search.


File:Flag of OPEC.svg|link=Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|1960: The [[Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries]] (OPEC) is founded.
File:Flag of OPEC.svg|link=Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|1960: The [[Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries]] (OPEC) is founded.


||1982: Alberto González Domínguez dies ... mathematician working on analysis, probability theory and quantum field theory.
||1982: Alberto González Domínguez dies ... mathematician working on analysis, probability theory and quantum field theory. Pic search.
 
File:Hans Weinberger.jpg|link=Hans Weinberger (nonfiction)|2009: Mathematician and academic [[Hans Weinberger (nonfiction)|Hans F. Weinberger]] visits the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]], where he gives an impromptu lecture on applications of variational methods for eigenvalue problems in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||2010: Frederick Jelinek dies ... researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He is well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up". Pic: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/business/24jelinek.html
||2010: Frederick Jelinek dies ... researcher in information theory, automatic speech recognition, and natural language processing. He is well known for his oft-quoted statement, "Every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up". Pic: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/business/24jelinek.html
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||2015: The first observation of gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.
||2015: The first observation of gravitational waves was made, announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February 2016.


File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2015: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].
|File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2015: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]].


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  • 1712: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini dies. He discovered four satellites of the planet Saturn and noted the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division was named after him.

    1712: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini dies. He discovered four satellites of the planet Saturn and noted the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division was named after him.

  • 1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.

    1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.

  • 1879: Weapons engineer and army officer Karl Heinrich Emil Becker born. He will promote the integration of scientific research into military goals, notably advanced weapons design.

    1879: Weapons engineer and army officer Karl Heinrich Emil Becker born. He will promote the integration of scientific research into military goals, notably advanced weapons design.

  • 1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."

    1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."

  • 1960: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

    1960: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

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