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||1751 – Christopher Polhem, Swedish physicist and engineer (b. 1661) | |||
File:Francis Baily.jpg|link=Francis Baily (nonfiction)|1844: Astronomer [[Francis Baily (nonfiction)|Francis Baily]] dies. He observed "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836). | File:Francis Baily.jpg|link=Francis Baily (nonfiction)|1844: Astronomer [[Francis Baily (nonfiction)|Francis Baily]] dies. He observed "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836). | ||
||1852 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1911) | |||
||1856 – Carl David Tolmé Runge, German mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist (d. 1927) | |||
||1871 – Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-English physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1937) | |||
||1884 – Theodor Svedberg, Swedish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) | |||
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams (5 March 1903 – 30 August 1979), was a Welsh physicist, | |||
||1907 – John Mauchly, American physicist and co-founder of the first computer company (d. 1980) | |||
||1909 – Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott. | |||
||1912 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997) | |||
||1928 – Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1864) | |||
||1940 – J. J. Thomson, English physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856) | |||
||1941 – Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish physicist and engineer (b. 1874) | |||
||Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams (5 March 1903 – 30 August 1979), was a Welsh physicist, noted for his research on electronic instrumentation for use in nuclear physics. His work on the scale-of-two counter contributed to the development of the modern computer. | |||
||1984 – STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery takes off on its maiden voyage. | |||
||1990 – Bernard D. H. Tellegen, Dutch engineer and academic (b. 1900) | |||
||2004 – Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer and academic (b. 1906) | |||
File:Seamus Heaney 1970.jpg|link=Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|2013: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer [[Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|Seamus Heaney]] dies. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. | File:Seamus Heaney 1970.jpg|link=Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|2013: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer [[Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|Seamus Heaney]] dies. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. | ||
File:Leonardo Draws Clock Head.jpg|link=Leonardo Draws Clock Head|2017: ''[[Leonardo Draws Clock Head]]'' wins Newbery Award for Best Children's Book Cover of the Year. | File:Leonardo Draws Clock Head.jpg|link=Leonardo Draws Clock Head|2017: ''[[Leonardo Draws Clock Head]]'' wins Newbery Award for Best Children's Book Cover of the Year. | ||
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Revision as of 15:28, 7 August 2017
1844: Astronomer Francis Baily dies. He observed "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836).
1905: Mathematician Emmy Noether uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2013: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney dies. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
2017: Leonardo Draws Clock Head wins Newbery Award for Best Children's Book Cover of the Year.