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||William Edward Ayrton, FRS (b. 14 September 1847) was an English physicist and electrical engineer. | ||William Edward Ayrton, FRS (b. 14 September 1847) was an English physicist and electrical engineer. | ||
||Carl August von Steinheil (d. 14 September 1870) was a German physicist, inventor, engineer and astronomer. Pic. | |||
||Karl Heinrich Emil Becker (b. 14 September 1879) was a German weapons engineer and artillery general. He advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development. | ||Karl Heinrich Emil Becker (b. 14 September 1879) was a German weapons engineer and artillery general. He advocated and implemented close ties of the military to science for purposes of advanced weapons development. | ||
Revision as of 19:33, 13 May 2018
1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.
1894: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.