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||1881: Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz born ... geophysicist and seismologist. Pic. | ||1881: Karl Bernhard Zoeppritz born ... geophysicist and seismologist. Pic. | ||
||1882: Edmund Dulac born ... illustrator | ||1882: Edmund Dulac born ... illustrator. | ||
||1882: N. C. Wyeth born ... painter and illustrator | ||1882: N. C. Wyeth born ... painter and illustrator. | ||
||1884: The Royal Observatory in Britain is adopted as the prime meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference. | ||1884: The Royal Observatory in Britain is adopted as the prime meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference. | ||
||1893: Ernst Öpik born ... astronomer and astrophysicist | ||1893: Ernst Öpik born ... astronomer and astrophysicist. Pic. | ||
||1893: | File:Laurance Safford.jpg|link=Laurance Safford (nonfiction)|1893: Cryptologist [[Laurance Safford (nonfiction)|Laurance Safford]] born. Safford will establish the Naval cryptologic organization after World War I, and head the effort more or less constantly until shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. | ||
||1895: Rolf Herman Nevanlinna born ... mathematician who made significant contributions to complex analysis. Pic. | ||1895: Rolf Herman Nevanlinna born ... mathematician who made significant contributions to complex analysis. Pic. | ||
||1896: Charles Glen King born ... biochemist and academic. | ||1896: Charles Glen King born ... biochemist and academic ... vitamin C. Pic. | ||
||1902: Frank Spedding born ... chemist. He was a renowned expert on rare earth elements, and on extraction of metals from minerals. The uranium extraction process helped make it possible for the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bombs. | |||
||1903: George Wells Beadle born ... scientist in the field of genetics, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate who with Edward Tatum discovered the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells in 1958. Pic. | ||1903: George Wells Beadle born ... scientist in the field of genetics, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate who with Edward Tatum discovered the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells in 1958. Pic. | ||
File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1905: Physicist and engineer [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]] born. He will be one of the founding figures of radio astronomy. | File:Karl Jansky.jpg|link=Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|1905: Physicist and engineer [[Karl Guthe Jansky (nonfiction)|Karl Guthe Jansky]] born. He will be one of the founding figures of radio astronomy. | ||
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||1916: Nathan Jacob Fine born ... mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series. He solved the Jeep problem in 1946. Pic: http://www.ams.org/notices/199506/fine.pdf | ||1916: Nathan Jacob Fine born ... mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series. He solved the Jeep problem in 1946. Pic: http://www.ams.org/notices/199506/fine.pdf | ||
||1916: Microbiologist and academic Roger Stanier born. Stanier will be influential in the development of modern microbiology, making important contributions to the taxonomy of bacteria, including the classification of blue-green algae as cyanobacteria. Pic. | |||
||1920: Timothy Leary born ... psychologist and writer known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. Pic. | |||
||1921: Alexander Kronrod born ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic. | ||1921: Alexander Kronrod born ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic. | ||
||1922: Marvin Leonard Goldberger born ... theoretical physicist. Pic. | ||1922: Marvin Leonard Goldberger born ... theoretical physicist. Pic. | ||
File:Marc_Julia.jpg|link=Marc Julia (nonfiction)|1922: Chemist [[Marc Julia (nonfiction)|Marc Julia]] born. Julia (along with his colleague Jean-Marc Paris) will discover the Julia olefination reaction in 1973. | |||
File:Nikola Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1927: Physicist, engineer, and inventor [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power. | File:Nikola Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1927: Physicist, engineer, and inventor [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power. | ||
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||1979: Reinhold Baer dies ... mathematician, known for his work in algebra. He introduced injective modules in 1940. He is the eponym of Baer rings and Baer groups. Pic. | ||1979: Reinhold Baer dies ... mathematician, known for his work in algebra. He introduced injective modules in 1940. He is the eponym of Baer rings and Baer groups. Pic. | ||
||2002: Irene Fischer dies ... geodesist and mathematician. Pic search | ||1986: Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt dies ... biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and discovering many of the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle and the molecular basis of muscle contraction. | ||
||2002: Irene Fischer dies ... geodesist and mathematician. Pic search. | |||
||2002: Richard Helms dies ... American intelligence agent and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence. | ||2002: Richard Helms dies ... American intelligence agent and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence. | ||
||2008: India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1. | ||2008: India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1. | ||
||2015: Murphy Anderson dies ... illustrator ... DC Comics | ||2015: Murphy Anderson dies ... illustrator ... DC Comics. | ||
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1659: Chemist and physician Georg Ernst Stahl born. His works on phlogiston will be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.
1792: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil dies. He discovered what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).
1879: Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
1893: Cryptologist Laurance Safford born. Safford will establish the Naval cryptologic organization after World War I, and head the effort more or less constantly until shortly after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
1905: Physicist and engineer Karl Guthe Jansky born. He will be one of the founding figures of radio astronomy.
1922: Chemist Marc Julia born. Julia (along with his colleague Jean-Marc Paris) will discover the Julia olefination reaction in 1973.
1927: Physicist, engineer, and inventor Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power.