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File:Rasmus_Bartholin.jpg|link=Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|1625: Physician, mathematician, and physicist [[Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|Rasmus Bartholin]] born. He will discover the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669. | File:Rasmus_Bartholin.jpg|link=Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|1625: Physician, mathematician, and physicist [[Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|Rasmus Bartholin]] born. He will discover the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669. | ||
||1710: William Heberden born ... physician and scholar. "In 1766, he recommended to the College of Physicians the first design of the Medical Transactions, in which he proposed to collect together such observations as might have occurred to any of their body, and were likely to illustrate the history or cure of diseases. The plan was soon adopted, and three volumes (were) successively laid before the public." Pic. | |||
||1756: James Gillray born ... caricaturist and printmaker. Pic. | ||1756: James Gillray born ... caricaturist and printmaker. Pic. | ||
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File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1819: Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] born. He will make pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics. | File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1819: Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] born. He will make pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics. | ||
||1822: Amateur mathematician Jean-Robert Argand dies. In 1806, while managing a bookstore in Paris, he published the idea of geometrical interpretation of complex numbers known as the Argand diagram and is known for the first rigorous proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. Pic search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Robert_Argand | |||
||1822: Heinrich Louis d'Arrest born ... astronomer. Pic. | ||1822: Heinrich Louis d'Arrest born ... astronomer. Pic. | ||
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||1896: Mathematician Philipp Ludwig von Seidel dies. He formulated the notion of uniform convergence. Pic: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Ludwig_von_Seidel ... AMA says 23 Oct. | ||1896: Mathematician Philipp Ludwig von Seidel dies. He formulated the notion of uniform convergence. Pic: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Ludwig_von_Seidel ... AMA says 23 Oct. | ||
||1898: Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found. Pic. | ||1898: Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found. Pic. | ||
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||1932: Nguyen Dinh Ngoc born ... Army officer and a Vietnamese mathematician. Pic: http://khoahoc.tv/nha-khoa-hoc-diep-vien-nguyen-dinh-ngoc-24831 | ||1932: Nguyen Dinh Ngoc born ... Army officer and a Vietnamese mathematician. Pic: http://khoahoc.tv/nha-khoa-hoc-diep-vien-nguyen-dinh-ngoc-24831 | ||
File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1942: Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]]. | File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1942: Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]]. | ||
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||2014: Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani honored with the Fields Medal. Pic. | ||2014: Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani honored with the Fields Medal. Pic. | ||
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1625: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin born. He will discover the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.
1819: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet born. He will make pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.
1863: Artist Eugène Delacroix dies. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.
1942: Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.