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||Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (d. 12 April 1971) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, for their 1934 discovery of Cherenkov radiation. Pic. | ||Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (d. 12 April 1971) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Mikhailovich Frank, for their 1934 discovery of Cherenkov radiation. Pic. | ||
||Wolfgang Krull | ||1971: Wolfgang Krull dies ... mathematician who made fundamental contributions to commutative algebra, introducing concepts that are now central to the subject. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1974: Cornelis Simon Meijer dies ... mathematician at the university of Groningen who introduced the Meijer G-function, a very general function that includes most of the elementary and higher mathematical functions as special cases; he also introduced generalizations of the Laplace transform that are referred to as Meijer transforms. Pic: http://www.cs.rug.nl/jbi/History/Meijer | ||
||Edwin Thomas Layton | ||1981: The first launch of a Space Shuttle (Columbia) takes place: The STS-1 mission. | ||
||1984: Edwin Thomas Layton dies ... Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, who is most noted for his work as an intelligence officer during and before World War II. | |||
File:John Archibald Wheeler 1985.jpg|link=John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|1999: Theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use quantum foam theory to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:John Archibald Wheeler 1985.jpg|link=John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|1999: Theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use quantum foam theory to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||Hans Neurath | ||2002: Hans Neurath dies ... biochemist, a leader in protein chemistry | ||
| | ||2013: Robert Byrne dies ... chess player and author. | ||
File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] wins Pulitzer Prize for series of retro-temporal photographs of Soviet cosmonaut [[Yuri Gagarin (nonfiction)|Yuri Gagarin]]. | File:Cantor Parabola.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola|2017: Math photographer [[Cantor Parabola]] wins Pulitzer Prize for series of retro-temporal photographs of Soviet cosmonaut [[Yuri Gagarin (nonfiction)|Yuri Gagarin]]. | ||
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1817: Astronomer Charles Messier dies. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1852: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann born. He will prove (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
1947: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to manufacture high-grade clandestiphrine.
1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight (Vostok 1).
1999: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use quantum foam theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for series of retro-temporal photographs of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.