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||1960: Georges Claude dies ... engineer and inventor, created Neon lighting. Pic. | ||1960: Georges Claude dies ... engineer and inventor, created Neon lighting. Pic. | ||
||1969: Frank Gray dies ... physicist and researcher at Bell Labs who made numerous innovations in television, both mechanical and electronic, and is remembered for the Gray code. The Gray code, or reflected binary code (RBC), appearing in Gray's 1953 patent, is a binary numeral system often used in electronics, with many applications in mathematics Pic: http://www.tvhistory.tv/1930-ATT-BELL-pg26-27.JPG | ||1969: Frank Gray dies ... physicist and researcher at Bell Labs who made numerous innovations in television, both mechanical and electronic, and is remembered for the Gray code. The Gray code, or reflected binary code (RBC), appearing in Gray's 1953 patent, is a binary numeral system often used in electronics, with many applications in mathematics Pic: http://www.tvhistory.tv/1930-ATT-BELL-pg26-27.JPG | ||
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||2015: John Forbes Nash, Jr. dies ... mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||2015: John Forbes Nash, Jr. dies ... mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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1707: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus born. He will formalize the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
1734: Physician Franz Mesmer born. Mesmer will theorize that there is a natural energy transference which occurs between all animated and inanimate objects which he will call animal magnetism. The effects which he will observe will later be attributed to hypnosis.
1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician Franz Ernst Neumann dies. His 1831 study on the specific heats of compounds included what is now known as Neumann's Law: the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents.
1917: Meteorologist, mathematician, and chaos theory pioneer Edward Lorenz born. He will introduce the strange attractor notion, and coin the term butterfly effect.
1918: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."
1982: Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie dies. She was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.
1994: George P. Metesky dies. He terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.
2024: Raspberry patch flourishing.