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File:Sekiya Seikei.jpg|link=Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|1896: Geologist [[Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|Sekiya Seikei]] dies. He was one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake.
File:Sekiya Seikei.jpg|link=Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|1896: Geologist [[Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|Sekiya Seikei]] dies. He was one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake.


||Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel (b. January 8, 1905) was a German writer and philosopher. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. He is especially well known for his articulation of the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the raven paradox (also known as "Hempel's paradox").
||1905: Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel born ... writer and philosopher. He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science. He is especially well known for his articulation of the deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, which was considered the "standard model" of scientific explanation during the 1950s and 1960s. He is also known for the raven paradox (also known as "Hempel's paradox").


||Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik (b. January 8, 1915) was a Soviet mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics. Pic.
||1915: Yuri Vladimirovich Linnik born ... mathematician active in number theory, probability theory and mathematical statistics. Pic.


||William Edwin Gordon (b. January 8, 1918) was a physicist and astronomer. He is referred to as the "father of the Arecibo Observatory". Pic.
||1918: William Edwin Gordon born ... physicist and astronomer. He is referred to as the "father of the Arecibo Observatory". Pic.


||1922 – Dale D. Myers, American engineer (d. 2015)
||1922: Dale D. Myers born ... engineer.
 
||1922: Georgy Maximovich Adelson-Velsky born ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic: https://memim.com/georgy-adelson-velsky.html


File:Joseph Weizenbaum.jpg|link=Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|1923:  Computer scientist [[Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|Joseph Weizenbaum]] born. He will become one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.
File:Joseph Weizenbaum.jpg|link=Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|1923:  Computer scientist [[Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|Joseph Weizenbaum]] born. He will become one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.


||Bryce Seligman DeWitt (b. January 8, 1923) was an American theoretical physicist who studied gravity and field theories. Pic.
||1923: Bryce Seligman DeWitt born ... theoretical physicist who studied gravity and field theories. Pic.


||Paul Moritz Cohn (b. 8 January 1924) was Astor Professor of Mathematics at University College London, 1986-9, and author of many textbooks on algebra. His work was mostly in the area of algebra, especially non-commutative rings. Pic.
||1924: Paul Moritz Cohn born ... Professor of Mathematics at University College London, 1986-9, and author of many textbooks on algebra. His work was mostly in the area of algebra, especially non-commutative rings. Pic.


||1952 – Antonia Maury, American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1866)
||1952: Antonia Maury dies ... astronomer and astrophysicist.


||Greenleaf Whittier Pickard (d. January 8, 1956, Newton, Massachusetts) was a United States radio pioneer. He was responsible for the development of the crystal detector, (cat's whisker detector), a radio wave detector which was the central component in early radio receivers called crystal radios. He also experimented with antennas, radio wave propagation, and noise suppression. Pic.
||Greenleaf Whittier Pickard (d. January 8, 1956, Newton, Massachusetts) was a United States radio pioneer. He was responsible for the development of the crystal detector, (cat's whisker detector), a radio wave detector which was the central component in early radio receivers called crystal radios. He also experimented with antennas, radio wave propagation, and noise suppression. Pic.

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