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| ||1625: Johann Bayer dies ... lawyer and cartographer. No DOB. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=johann+bayer
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| File:Joseph_Nicéphore_Niépce.jpg|link=Nicéphore Niépce (nonfiction)|1765: Inventor [[Nicéphore Niépce (nonfiction)|Nicéphore Niépce]] born. He will invent heliography, a technique he will use to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process. | | File:Joseph_Nicéphore_Niépce.jpg|link=Nicéphore Niépce (nonfiction)|1765: Inventor [[Nicéphore Niépce (nonfiction)|Nicéphore Niépce]] born. He will invent heliography, a technique he will use to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process. |
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| File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1788: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] born. He will pioneer the study of electric and luminescent phenomena. | | File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1788: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] born. He will pioneer the study of electric and luminescent phenomena. |
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| ||1792: John Herschel born ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic.
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| ||1809: Jean-Pierre Blanchard dies ... inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight. Pic.
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| ||1837: Henry Draper born ... physician and astronomer ... pioneer of astrophotography. Pic.
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| ||1838: Robert Townsend dies ... American spy. Pic.
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| ||1839: Ludwig Mond born ... chemist and industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls. Pic.
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| ||1857: Julius Wagner-Jauregg born ... physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... the first psychiatrist to have done so. His Nobel award was "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica". Pic.
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| ||1857: Arthur Rudolf Hantzsch born ... chemist. Pic.
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| ||1869: Ernst Julius Cohen born ... chemist known for his work on the allotropy of metals. Pic.
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| File:Flying Bison.jpg|link=Flying bison|[[Flying bison|1875: Flying bison (Bison pterobonasus)]] sighted near Roswell, New Mexico.
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| File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1876: [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)]] is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
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| File:G I Taylor.jpg|link=G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|1886: Mathematician and physicist [[G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|G. I. Taylor]] born. He will make major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory. | | File:G I Taylor.jpg|link=G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|1886: Mathematician and physicist [[G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|G. I. Taylor]] born. He will make major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory. |
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| ||1870: Ernst Leonard Lindelöf born ... mathematician, who made contributions in real analysis, complex analysis and topology. Lindelöf spaces are named after him. Pic.
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| ||1880: Physicist Richard Gans born. He will invent Gans theory, which gives the solutions to the Maxwell equations for prolate and oblate spheroidal particles. Pic: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00016-008-0416-0
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| ||1897: Gustav Adolph Kenngott dies ... mineralogist. He was the first to describe enstatite, and the disocverer of a new mineral which he named pisanite in honor of Felice Pisani. Pic.
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| ||1899: Hungarian Tivadar Millner dies ... inventor who developed tungsten lamps. Working at Tungsram, Tivadar Millner, along with Pál Túry, co-developed large-crystal tungsten technology for the production of more reliable and longer-lasting coiled filament lamps. Pic.
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| ||1905: Mathematician and academic John Macnaghten Whittaker born. He will work in complex analysis, and also contribute to the cardinal function theory of his father, E. T. Whittaker. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Macnaghten+Whittaker
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| ||1914: Takeo Yoshikawa born ... Japanese spy in Hawaii before the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Takeo+Yoshikawa
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| File:Johannes Diderik van der Waals.jpg|link=Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|1898: Theoretical physicist and crime fighter [[Johannes Diderik van der Waals (nonfiction)|Johannes Diderik van der Waals]] uses the equation of state for gases and liquids to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]].
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| ||1900: Physicist and academic Fritz Wolfgang London born. He will make fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces (London dispersion forces). With his brother Heinz London, he will make a significant contribution to understanding electromagnetic properties of superconductors with the London equations. Pic.
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| ||1900: Joseph Ehrenfried Hofmann born ... historian of mathematics, known for his research on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Pic.
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| ||1909: Roger Randall Dougan Revelle born ... scientist and scholar who was instrumental in the formative years of the University of California San Diego and was among the early scientists to study anthropogenic global warming, as well as the movement of Earth's tectonic plates. Pic.
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| File:Betty Holberton.jpg|link=Betty Holberton (nonfiction)|1917: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer [[Betty Holberton (nonfiction)|Betty Holberton]] born. She will be one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and the inventor of breakpoints in computer debugging. | | File:Betty Holberton.jpg|link=Betty Holberton (nonfiction)|1917: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer [[Betty Holberton (nonfiction)|Betty Holberton]] born. She will be one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and the inventor of breakpoints in computer debugging. |
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| ||1922: Olga Ladyzhenskaya born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
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| ||1922: Axel Thue dies ... mathematician, known for highly original work in diophantine approximation, and combinatorics. He stated in 1914 the so-called word problem for semigroups or Thue problem, closely related to the halting problem. Pic.
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| ||1928: Ray Kunze born ... mathematician who chaired the mathematics departments at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Georgia. His mathematical research concerned the representation theory of groups and noncommutative harmonic analysis. Pic.
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| ||1947: Sidney Richard Coleman born ... theoretical physicist who studied under Murray Gell-Mann. He is noted for his research in high-energy theoretical physics. Pic.
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| File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1950: Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] served as a Soviet spy. | | File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1950: Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] served as a Soviet spy. |
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| ||1951: William Draper Harkins dies ... chemist, notably for his contributions to nuclear chemistry. Harkins researched the structure of the atomic nucleus and was the first to propose the principle of nuclear fusion, four years before Jean Baptiste Perrin published his theory in 1919-20. His findings enabled, among other things, the development of the H-bomb. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=William+Draper+Harkins
| | File:Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer.jpg|link=Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1)|2019: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1)]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least two-hundred and fifty-six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions. |
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| ||1954: Otto Diels dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| ||1954: Ludwik Hirszfeld dies ... microbiologist and serologist. He is considered a co-discoverer of the inheritance of ABO blood types. Pic.
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| ||1958: John Ronald Womersley dies ... mathematician and computer scientist who made important contributions to computer development, and hemodynamics. Nowadays he is principally remembered for his contribution to blood flow, fluid dynamics and the eponymous Womersley number, a dimensionless parameter characterising unsteady flow. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Ronald+Womersley | |
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| ||1962: Eduard Rüchardt dies ... physicist. In modern times Rüchardt is mainly noted for the experiment named after him. However, Rüchardt's chief topic was the study of canal rays. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=Eduard+Rüchardt
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| ||1964: Samuel S. Wilks dies ... American mathematician and academic who played an important role in the development of mathematical statistics, especially in regard to practical applications. During World War II he was a consultant with the Office of Naval Research. Both during and after the War he had a profound impact on the application of statistical methods to all aspects of military planning. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=samuel+s.+wilks
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| ||1966: Georg Faber dies ... Faber's most important work was on the polynomial expansion of functions. This is the problem of expanding an analytical function in an area bounded by a smooth curve as a sum of polynomials, where the polynomials are determined by the area. These polynomials are now known as 'Faber polynomials' and first appear in Faber's 1903 paper Über polynomische Entwickelungen published in Mathematische Annalen. Another important paper which he also published in Mathematische Annalen, this time in 1909, was Über stetige Funktionen. In this paper he introduced the 'hierarchical basis' and explicitly used it for the representation of functions. In fact Faber was building on the idea of Archimedes who computed approximately using a hierarchy of polygonal approximations of a circle. Only in the 1980s was Faber's idea seen to be an important ingredient for the efficient solution of partial differential equations. One further achievement of Faber is worthy of mention. In 1894 Lord Rayleigh made the following claim:" ... given a fixed area of ox-hide to make a drum, the ground tone is lowest if you make your drum circular. " Two mathematicians independently verified Rayleigh's conjecture, Faber and Edgar Krahn. *SAU Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=georg+faber+mathematician
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| ||1971: Richard Montague dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic.
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| ||1971: The Apollo 14 Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment observed a series of bursts of 48.6 eV water vapor ions at the lunar surface during a 14-h period. The maximum flux observed was 108 ions cm−2 s−1 sr−1. These ions were also observed at Apollo 12, 183 km to the west. Evaluation of specific artificial sources including the Apollo missions and the Russian Lunokhod leads to the conclusion that the water vapor did not come from a man-made source. Natural sources exogenous to the Moon such as comets and the solar wind are also found to be inadequate to explain the observed fluxes. Consequently, these water vapor ions appear to be of lunar origin. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00562753
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| ||1978: Arthur Batcheller dies ... pioneer in early radio. Pic.
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| ||1982: Ida Barney dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and academic. Pic.
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| ||1984: Charles Pisot dies ... mathematician. He is chiefly recognized as one of the primary investigators of the numerical set associated with his name, the Pisot–Vijayaraghavan numbers. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Pisot.html
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| ||1986: Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS ''Preserver'' locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
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| ||1997: Edward Mills Purcell dies ... physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures. Pic.
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| ||1999: Sidney Gottlieb dies ... chemist, theorist, and poisoner. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=sidney+gottlieb
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| ||1999: Stanley Kubrick dies ... director, producer, and screenwriter ... one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinematic history. His films, which are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories, cover a wide range of genres, and are noted for their realism, dark humor, unique cinematography, extensive set designs, and evocative use of music. Pic.
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| ||2008: David Gale dies ... mathematician and economist. He was a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with the departments of mathematics, economics, and industrial engineering and operations research. He has contributed to the fields of mathematical economics, game theory, and convex analysis. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=david+gale
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| ||2017: Hans Georg Dehmelt dies ... physicist, who was awarded Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, for co-developing the ion trap technique (Penning trap) with Wolfgang Paul, for which they shared one-half of the prize (the other half of the Prize in that year was awarded to Norman Foster Ramsey). Their technique was used for high precision measurement of the electron magnetic moment. Pic.
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| File:Shell.jpg|link=Shell (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Shell (nonfiction)|Shell]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
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| ||2017: Peter Manfred Gruber dies ... mathematician working in geometric number theory as well as in convex and discrete geometry. Pic.
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