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||File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1707: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to design improved [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]]. | ||File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1707: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to design improved [[Airship (nonfiction)|airship]]. | ||
||1711 – Georg Wilhelm Richmann, German-Russian physicist and academic (d. 1753) | |||
||1755 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1839) | |||
||1784 – Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1846) | |||
File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] dies. He discovered dwarf planet Ceres. | File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] dies. He discovered dwarf planet Ceres. | ||
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File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1827: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] dies. He proposed worldwide standard time zones. | File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1827: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] dies. He proposed worldwide standard time zones. | ||
||1887 – Gustav Ludwig Hertz, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) | |||
||1888 – Selman Waksman, Jewish-American biochemist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973) | |||
||1802 – Marie François Xavier Bichat, French anatomist and physiologist (b. 1771) | |||
||1826 – Giuseppe Piazzi, Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1746) | |||
||1915 – Sandford Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer and inventor, developed Standard time (b. 1827) | |||
File:Reginald Fessenden.jpg|link=Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|1932: Inventor [[Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|Reginald Fessenden]] dies. He performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music. | File:Reginald Fessenden.jpg|link=Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|1932: Inventor [[Reginald Fessenden (nonfiction)|Reginald Fessenden]] dies. He performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music. | ||
||1942 – The United States government begins compulsory civilian gasoline rationing due to the wartime demands. | |||
||1942 – Holocaust: The systematic deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto begins. | |||
||1962 – Mariner program: Mariner 1 spacecraft flies erratically several minutes after launch and has to be destroyed. | |||
File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2017: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]]. | File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2017: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alice Beta]]. | ||
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Revision as of 17:46, 21 July 2017
1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi dies. He discovered dwarf planet Ceres.
1827: Gem detective and astronomer Niles Cartouchian discovers evidence that the dwarf planet Ceres is the source of illegal time crystals.
1827: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming dies. He proposed worldwide standard time zones.
1932: Inventor Reginald Fessenden dies. He performed pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.
2017: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.