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||1918 – Nevin Scrimshaw, American scientist (d. 2013) | ||1918 – Nevin Scrimshaw, American scientist (d. 2013) | ||
||Edwin Hewitt (b. January 20, 1920) was an American mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis and for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt–Savage zero–one law. | |||
||1921 – Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer and academic (b. 1847) | ||1921 – Mary Watson Whitney, American astronomer and academic (b. 1847) | ||
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1573: Astronomer Simon Marius born. He will discover the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.
1775: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère born. He will be one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he will referr to as "electrodynamics".
1840: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer David Brewster invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1841: Adventurer Jørgen Jørgensen dies. He sailed to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.
1898: Electrical engineer Elisha Gray uses his "telephote" technology to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1901: Electrical engineer Zénobe Gramme dies. He invented the first usefully powerful electric motor.
1933: Carnivorous dirigibles break their tethers, eat park ranger.
1997: New theory of artificial intelligence accidentally release massive wave of Kingpin inclination.
2016: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.