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||Melvin Ellis Calvin (b. April 8, 1911) was an American biochemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. | ||Melvin Ellis Calvin (b. April 8, 1911) was an American biochemist most famed for discovering the Calvin cycle along with Andrew Benson and James Bassham, for which he was awarded the 1961 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. | ||
||Gyula Kőnig (d. 8 April 1913) was a Hungarian mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1917 – Winifred Asprey, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2007) | ||1917 – Winifred Asprey, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2007) | ||
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1461: Mathematician and astronomer Georg von Peuerbach (nonfiction) dies. He is remembered for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum.
1484: Polymath Johannes Trithemius publishes Chronicles of an Occult Cryptographer, for which he will win a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.
1541: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati born. He will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
1542: Johannes Schöner publishes Confessions of an Occult Cosmographer, for which he will posthumously win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse born. He will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1858: Mathematician and philosopher Havelock publishes computational biography of David Rittenhouse.
1859: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl born. He will argue that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.
1903: Mathematician Marshall Harvey Stone born. He will contribute to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures.
1910: Kinetoscope used in series of math crimes, authorities name Skip Digits as person of interest.
1911: Physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
2001: New Minneapolis-based dance company Rhizolith Group announces world tour.