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| || *** DONE: Pics *** | | File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1596: Mathematician and philosopher '''[[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]]''' born. Descartes will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy. |
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| File:René Descartes.jpg|link=René Descartes (nonfiction)|1596: Mathematician and philosopher [[René Descartes (nonfiction)|René Descartes]] born. Descartes will be remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy. | | File:Etienne Bezout.jpg|link=Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|1730: Mathematician and theorist '''[[Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|Étienne Bézout]]''' born. Bezout's ''Théorie générale des équations algébriques'' will contain much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation. |
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| ||1644: Henry Winstanley born ... painter and engineer. Pic. | | File:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|link=Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and philosopher '''[[Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|Antoine Augustin Cournot]]''' dies. Cournot introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis. |
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| File:Etienne Bezout.jpg|link=Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|1730: Mathematician and theorist [[Étienne Bézout (nonfiction)|Étienne Bézout]] born. Bezout's ''Théorie générale des équations algébriques'' will contain much new and valuable matter on the theory of elimination and symmetrical functions of the roots of an equation. | | File:The Glass Tweet Game.jpg|link=The Glass Tweet Game|1943: Publication of '''''[[The Glass Tweet Game]]''''', the last full-length tweet-chain by author and alleged time-traveler Hermann Hesse. |
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| ||1777: Charles Cagniard de la Tour born ... physicist and engineer. Pic search. | | File:Explorer_1.jpg|link=Explorer 1 (nonfiction)|1970: The spacecraft '''[[Explorer 1 (nonfiction)|Explorer 1]]''' re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States. |
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| ||1806: Thomas Penyngton Kirkman born ... mathematician and ordained minister of the Church of England. Pic: https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kirkman | | File:Clifford Shull 1949.jpg|link=Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|2001: Physicist and academic '''[[Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|Clifford Shull]]''' dies. Shull shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique. |
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| ||1831: Archibald Scott Couper born ... chemist who proposed an early theory of chemical structure and bonding. He developed the concepts of tetravalent carbon atoms linking together to form large molecules, and that the bonding order of the atoms in a molecule can be determined from chemical evidence. Pic.
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| ||1840: Benjamin Baker born ... engineer, designed the Forth Bridge. Pic.
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| ||1848: Diederik Johannes Korteweg born ... mathematician. He is now best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation, together with Gustav de Vries. Pic.
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| ||1847: Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.
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| ||1850: Charles Doolittle Walcott born ... paleontologist, administrator of the Smithsonian Institution from 1907 to 1927, and geologist. He is famous for his discovery in 1909 of well-preserved fossils in the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada. Pic.
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| ||1854: Dugald Clerk born ... Scottish engineer who designed the world's first successful two-stroke engine in 1878. Pic.
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| ||1875: Friedrich Julius Richelot ... mathematician. Richelot authored numerous publications in German, French and Latin, among them — with his 1832 dissertation — the first known guide to the Euclidean construction of the regular 257-gon with compass and straightedge. Pic.
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| File:Antoine Augustin Cournot.jpg|link=Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and philosopher [[Antoine Augustin Cournot (nonfiction)|Antoine Augustin Cournot]] dies. Cournot introduced the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
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| ||1884: Adriaan van Maanen born ... astronomer and academic. Van Maanen is well known for his astrometric measurements of internal motions in spiral nebulae; ultimately his data was found to contain serious errors. Pic.
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| ||1889: The Eiffel Tower is officially opened. Pic.
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| ||1890: William Lawrence Bragg born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... X-ray crystallographer, discoverer (1912) of Bragg's law of X-ray diffraction, which is basic for the determination of crystal structure. He was joint winner (with his father, William Henry Bragg) of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915. Pic.
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| ||1894: Svein Rosseland born ... astrophysicist and a pioneer in the field of theoretical astrophysics. Pic.
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| ||1906: Shin'ichirō Tomonaga born ... physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. Pic.
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| ||1910: Klaus Wagner born ... mathematician - topology, graph theory. Wagner's theorem characterizes the planar graphs as exactly those graphs that do not have as a minor either a complete graph K5 on five vertices or a complete bipartite graph K3,3 with three vertices on each side of its bipartition. Pic.
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| ||1918: Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
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| ||1920: Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann dies ... mathematician. His major works include ''Analytische Zahlentheorie'', a work on analytic number theory in which Big O notation was first introduced. Pic.
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| ||1945: Hans Fischer dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
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| ||1945: World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messerschmitt_Me_262_Schwable.jpg Pic.
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| ||1951: Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
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| ||1966: The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
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| File:Robin Farquharson.jpg|link=Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|1967: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Robin Farquharson (nonfiction)|Robin Farquharson]] publishes proof that most voting systems are vulnerable to [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| File:Explorer_1.jpg|link=Explorer 1 (nonfiction)|1970: The spacecraft [[Explorer 1 (nonfiction)|Explorer 1]] re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit. Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States.
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| File:Coxeter circles.png|link=Coxeter's loxodromic sequence of tangent circles (nonfiction)|1971: Mathematician and crime-fighter Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter uses his famous [[Coxeter's loxodromic sequence of tangent circles (nonfiction)|loxodromic sequence of tangent circles]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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| ||1978: Charles Best dies ... physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin. Pic.
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| ||1997: Friedrich Hund dies ... physicist known for his work on atoms and molecules. Pic.
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| ||1997: Lyman Strong Spitzer, Jr. dies ... theoretical physicist, astronomer and mountaineer. As a scientist, he carried out research into star formation, plasma physics, and in 1946, conceived the idea of telescopes operating in outer space. Spitzer invented the stellarator plasma device. Pic.
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| ||1998: Michio Suzuki dies ... mathematician who studied group theory. Pic search.
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| File:Clifford Shull 1949.jpg|link=Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|2001: Physicist and academic [[Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|Clifford Shull]] dies. Shull shared the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique.
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| File:Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.jpg|link=Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|2003: Mathematician and academic [[Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter (nonfiction)|Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter]] dies. Coxeter was one of the greatest geometers of the 20th century.
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| File:Tan Lei.jpg|link=Tan Lei (nonfiction)|2004: Mathematician [[Tan Lei (nonfiction)|Tan Lei]] and crime-fighter publishes study of complex dynamics and functions of complex numbers with applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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