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||1885: Theoretical physicist and professor [[Earle Hesse Kennard (nonfiction)|Earle Hesse Kennard]] born. | ||1885: Theoretical physicist and professor [[Earle Hesse Kennard (nonfiction)|Earle Hesse Kennard]] born. | ||
File:Oskar_Anderson.jpg|link=Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and statistician [[Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|Oskar Anderson]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics. | File:Oskar_Anderson.jpg|link=Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and statistician [[Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|Oskar Anderson]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics. | ||
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||1902: Mina Spiegel Rees ... mathematician. She was a pioneer in the history of computing and helped establish funding streams and institutional infrastructure for research. Pic. | ||1902: Mina Spiegel Rees ... mathematician. She was a pioneer in the history of computing and helped establish funding streams and institutional infrastructure for research. Pic. | ||
||1917: Wah Ming Chang born ... designer, sculptor, and artist. With the encouragement of his adopted father, James Blanding Sloan, he began exhibiting his prints and watercolors at the age of seven to highly favorable reviews. Chang worked with Sloan on several theatre productions and in the 1940s, they briefly created their own studio to produce films. He is known later in life for his sculpture and the props he designed for Star Trek: The Original Series, including the tricorder and communicator. Pic. | |||
||1918: George William Whitehead, Jr. born ... professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is known for his work on algebraic topology. He invented the J-homomorphism, and was among the first to systematically calculate the homotopy groups of spheres. Pic: http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/whitehead-george.pdf | ||1918: George William Whitehead, Jr. born ... professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is known for his work on algebraic topology. He invented the J-homomorphism, and was among the first to systematically calculate the homotopy groups of spheres. Pic: http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/whitehead-george.pdf | ||
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|link=Carl David Anderson (nonfiction)|1932: The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by [[Carl David Anderson (nonfiction)|Carl D. Anderson]]. | |link=Carl David Anderson (nonfiction)|1932: The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by [[Carl David Anderson (nonfiction)|Carl D. Anderson]]. | ||
||1939: Harvey Spencer Lewis dies ... mystic and author. Pic. | |||
|link=|1939: Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] to develop a nuclear weapon. | |link=|1939: Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] to develop a nuclear weapon. | ||
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||File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1964: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series accidentally releases new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1964: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series accidentally releases new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1970: Angus MacFarlane-Grieve dies ... academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier. | ||1970: Angus MacFarlane-Grieve dies ... academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier. No pics online. | ||
||1974: Fred C. Allison dies ... physicist. He developed a magneto-optic spectroscopy method | ||1974: Fred C. Allison dies ... physicist. He developed a magneto-optic spectroscopy method that became known as the Allison magneto-optic method. He claimed to have discovered two new elements (later discredited) using this method. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Fred+Allison+physicist | ||
||1976: László Kalmár dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1976: László Kalmár dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||2016: Ahmed Hassan Zewail dies ... scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. Pic. | ||2016: Ahmed Hassan Zewail dies ... scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. Pic. | ||
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1820: Physicist John Tyndall born. He will study diamagnetism, and make discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
1835: Electrical engineer Elisha Gray born. He will do pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the telephone.
1887: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson born. He will make important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.
1922: Engineer, inventor, and academic Alexander Graham Bell dies. He patented the telephone in 1876.
1939: Albert Einstein writes President F. D. Roosevelt that "some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard ... leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable--though much less certain--that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may be constructed." Roosevelt quickly starts the Manhattan Project.