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||1578 – William Harvey, English physician and academic (d. 1657) | |||
||1640 – Georg Mohr, Danish mathematician and academic (d. 1697) | |||
File:Sophie Germain.jpg|link=Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|1776: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|Sophie Germain]] born. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem will a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after. | File:Sophie Germain.jpg|link=Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|1776: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|Sophie Germain]] born. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem will a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after. | ||
||1826 – Samuel Morey received a patent for a compressionless "Gas or Vapor Engine". | |||
||1865 – Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1929) | |||
||1874 – Ernest Barnes, English mathematician and theologian (d. 1953) | |||
File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1890: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by shooting first. | File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1890: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by shooting first. | ||
File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1891: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] uses census data to locate [[Havelock]]. | File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1891: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] uses census data to locate [[Havelock]]. | ||
File:William James Sidis 1914.jpg|link=William James Sidis (nonfiction)|1898: Mathematician and anthropologist [[William James Sidis (nonfiction)|William James Sidis]] born. He will become famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life. | File:William James Sidis 1914.jpg|link=William James Sidis (nonfiction)|1898: Mathematician and anthropologist [[William James Sidis (nonfiction)|William James Sidis]] born. He will become famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life. | ||
||1916 – Sheila May Edmonds, British mathematician (d. 2002) | |||
File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''. | File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''. | ||
||1960 – The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space. | |||
||Lev Davidovich Landau (Russian: Лев Дави́дович Ланда́у; IPA: [lʲɛv dɐˈvidəvʲitɕ lɐnˈda.u] (About this sound listen); January 22 [O.S. January 9] 1908 – 1 April 1968) was a Soviet physicist who made fundamental contributions to many areas of theoretical physics. | |||
||1976 – Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in Cupertino, California, USA. | |||
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Revision as of 10:09, 29 October 2017
1776: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain born. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem will a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
1890: Havelock survives shootout by shooting first.
1891: Inventor Herman Hollerith uses census data to locate Havelock.
1898: Mathematician and anthropologist William James Sidis born. He will become famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.