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File:Oswald Veblen 1915.jpg|link=Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|1880: Mathematician and academic [[Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|Oswald Veblen]] born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. | File:Oswald Veblen 1915.jpg|link=Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|1880: Mathematician and academic [[Oswald Veblen (nonfiction)|Oswald Veblen]] born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity. | ||
||1883 | ||1883: Victor Francis Hess born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1885 | ||1885: Olaf Holtedahl born ... geologist. | ||
File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|1886: ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as "most entertaining illustration of our time." | File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|1886: ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as "most entertaining illustration of our time." | ||
|| | ||1888: Georges Darmois born ... mathematician and statistician. He pioneered in the theory of sufficiency, in stellar statistics, and in factor analysis. He is one of the eponyms of the Koopman–Pitman–Darmois theorem and sufficient statistics and exponential families. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Darmois.html | ||
|| | ||1894: Marie François Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio. | ||
|| | ||1900: Wilhelm Cauer born ... mathematician and engineer. | ||
|| | ||1909: William Penney born ... mathematician and physicist. | ||
||1914 | ||1911: Ernesto Sabato born ... physicist and academic. | ||
||1914: Pearl Witherington born ... French secret agent (d. 2008) | |||
||1915 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (d. 2001) | ||1915 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (d. 2001) | ||
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1660: Priest, astromomer, and crime-fighter Giovanni Battista Riccioli publishes new scheme of lunar nomenclature which anticipates future developments in detecting and preventing crimes against astronomical constants.
1709: Public test of Bartolomeu de Gusmão's airship fails to take place.
1860: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer publishes complete working plans for a submarine which is undetectable by alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1880: Mathematician and academic Oswald Veblen born. His work will find application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.
1886: Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess wins Pulitzer prize, hailed as "most entertaining illustration of our time."