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File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1687: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] publishes ''Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"). ''Principia'' states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically). | File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1687: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] publishes ''Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica'' ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"). ''Principia'' states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically). | ||
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||1888: Herbert Spencer Gasser born ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1888: Herbert Spencer Gasser born ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1888: Louise Freeland Jenkins born ... astronomer and academic. | ||1888: Louise Freeland Jenkins born ... astronomer and academic. Compiled a valuable catalogue of stars within 10 parsecs of the sun; edited the 3rd edition of the Yale Bright Star Catalogue. Pic. | ||
||1891: John Howard Northrop born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1891: John Howard Northrop born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1892: Geologist and Arctic explorer Lauge Koch born; expeditions to Greenland. Pic. | |||
||1904: Ernst Mayr born ... biologist and ornithologist ... taxonomy, speciation. Pic. | ||1904: Ernst Mayr born ... biologist and ornithologist ... taxonomy, speciation. Pic. | ||
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||1932: René-Louis Baire dies ... mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. Pic. | ||1932: René-Louis Baire dies ... mathematician most famous for his Baire category theorem, which helped to generalize and prove future theorems. Pic. | ||
File:Oskar Bolza.jpg|link=Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|1942: Mathematician [[Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|Oskar Bolza]] dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory. | File:Oskar Bolza.jpg|link=Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|1942: Mathematician [[Oskar Bolza (nonfiction)|Oskar Bolza]] dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory. | ||
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||2015: Yoichiro Nambu dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||2015: Yoichiro Nambu dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||2018: Evgeny Golod dies ... mathematician who proved the Golod–Shafarevich theorem on class field towers. As an application, he gave a negative solution to the Kurosh–Levitzky problem on the nilpotency of finitely generated nil algebras, and so to a weak form of Burnside's problem. Pic: http://www.advgrouptheory.com/GTArchivum/Pictures/gtphotos.html | ||2018: Evgeny Golod dies ... mathematician who proved the Golod–Shafarevich theorem on class field towers. As an application, he gave a negative solution to the Kurosh–Levitzky problem on the nilpotency of finitely generated nil algebras, and so to a weak form of Burnside's problem. Pic: http://www.advgrouptheory.com/GTArchivum/Pictures/gtphotos.html | ||
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1687: Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica ("Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy"). Principia states Newton's laws of motion, forming the foundation of classical mechanics; Newton's law of universal gravitation; and a derivation of Kepler's laws of planetary motion (which Kepler first obtained empirically).
1833: Inventor Nicéphore Niépce dies. He invented heliography, a technique which he used to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process.
1942: Mathematician Oskar Bolza dies. He is known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities later became important in control theory.
2009: Discovery of the Staffordshire hoard, the largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered in England, consisting of more than 1,500 items found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, Staffordshire.