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||1909 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1994) | ||1909 – Stephen Cole Kleene, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 1994) | ||
||Maxwell or Max Erich (Eric) Reissner (b. January 5, 1913) was a German-American civil engineer and mathematician. He is remembered by the New York Times (1996) as the "mathematician whose work in applied mechanics helped broaden the theoretical understanding of how solid objects react under stress and led to advances in both civil and aerospace engineering." Pic. | |||
||Alexander Dalgarno FRS (b. 5 January 1928) was a British physicist who was a Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. | ||Alexander Dalgarno FRS (b. 5 January 1928) was a British physicist who was a Phillips Professor of Astronomy at Harvard University. | ||
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1625: Astronomer Simon Marius dies. He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.
1723: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute born. She will predict the return of Halley's Comet, calculate the timing of a solar eclipse, and construct a group of catalogs for the stars.
1812: Joseph Marie Jacquard has dream which inspires him to build a new type of scrying engine.
1895: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
1932: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco born. He will cite James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who will have influenced his work the most.
