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|link=Marjorie Rice (nonfiction)|1923: [[Marjorie Rice (nonfiction)|Marjorie Rice]] born ... amateur mathematician most famous for her discoveries in geometry. Pic search. | |link=Marjorie Rice (nonfiction)|1923: [[Marjorie Rice (nonfiction)|Marjorie Rice]] born ... amateur mathematician most famous for her discoveries in geometry. Pic search. | ||
File:Friedrich Reinitzer.jpg|link=Friedrich Reinitzer (nonfiction)|1927: Botanist and chemist [[Friedrich Reinitzer (nonfiction)|Friedrich Reinitzer]] dies. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, Reinitzer discovered the properties of what would later be called liquid crystals; although the discovery attracted attention, interest soon faded as no practical uses were found at the time. | ||||File:Friedrich Reinitzer.jpg|link=Friedrich Reinitzer (nonfiction)|1927: Botanist and chemist [[Friedrich Reinitzer (nonfiction)|Friedrich Reinitzer]] dies. In late 1880s, experimenting with cholesteryl benzoate, Reinitzer discovered the properties of what would later be called liquid crystals; although the discovery attracted attention, interest soon faded as no practical uses were found at the time. | ||
||1927: Friedrich Beck born ... physicist. His research interests were focused on superconductivity, nuclear and elementary particle physics, relativistic quantum field theory, and late in his life, biophysics and theory of consciousness. Pic. | ||1927: Friedrich Beck born ... physicist. His research interests were focused on superconductivity, nuclear and elementary particle physics, relativistic quantum field theory, and late in his life, biophysics and theory of consciousness. Pic. | ||
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||1991: Nicaraguan Contra leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. | ||1991: Nicaraguan Contra leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua. | ||
File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1997: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] dies. She conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved. | ||File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1997: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] dies. She conducted the Wu experiment, which contradicted the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved. | ||
||1997: Leon Bankoff dies ... dentist, mathematician and Esperantist. He was responsible for the publication of some 300 top problems in the area of plane geometry, particularly Morley's trisector theorem, and the arbelos of Archimedes. Among his discoveries with the arbelos was the Bankoff circle, which is equal in area to Archimedes' twin circles. Pic: http://math.fau.edu/yiu/AEG2013/BankoffCMJ.pdf | ||1997: Leon Bankoff dies ... dentist, mathematician and Esperantist. He was responsible for the publication of some 300 top problems in the area of plane geometry, particularly Morley's trisector theorem, and the arbelos of Archimedes. Among his discoveries with the arbelos was the Bankoff circle, which is equal in area to Archimedes' twin circles. Pic: http://math.fau.edu/yiu/AEG2013/BankoffCMJ.pdf | ||
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||1995: Martin Kneser dies ... mathematician. His name has been given to Kneser graphs, which he studied in 1955. | ||1995: Martin Kneser dies ... mathematician. His name has been given to Kneser graphs, which he studied in 1955. | ||
File:Harry Hinsley.jpg|link=Harry Hinsley (nonfiction)|1998: Historian and cryptanalyst [[Harry Hinsley (nonfiction)|Francis Harry Hinsley]] dies. Hinsley worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the war. | ||File:Harry Hinsley.jpg|link=Harry Hinsley (nonfiction)|1998: Historian and cryptanalyst [[Harry Hinsley (nonfiction)|Francis Harry Hinsley]] dies. Hinsley worked at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and wrote widely on the history of international relations and British Intelligence during the war. | ||
||2009: Konrad Dannenberg dies ... rocket pioneer and member of the German rocket team brought to the United States after World War II. Pic. | ||2009: Konrad Dannenberg dies ... rocket pioneer and member of the German rocket team brought to the United States after World War II. Pic. | ||
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1698: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer born. He will be known as "the father of naval architecture".
1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.
1960: Mathematician and crime-fighter The Eel (left) stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter (right) from infiltrating Operation Sandblast, the U.S. Navy submarine circumnavigation of the globe.
1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.