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||1926: Robert "Bob" Osserman born ... mathematician who worked in geometry. He is specially remembered for his work on the theory of minimal surfaces. Pic. | ||1926: Robert "Bob" Osserman born ... mathematician who worked in geometry. He is specially remembered for his work on the theory of minimal surfaces. Pic. | ||
||1932: Crispin St. John Alvah Nash-Williams ... mathematician. His research interest was in the field of discrete mathematics, especially graph theory. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Nash-Williams.html | ||1932: Crispin St. John Alvah Nash-Williams born ... mathematician. His research interest was in the field of discrete mathematics, especially graph theory. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Nash-Williams.html | ||
||1939: Dmitry Aleksandrovich Grave dies ... mathematician. | ||1939: Dmitry Aleksandrovich Grave dies ... mathematician. | ||
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1601: Mathematician Robert Fludd uses Gnomon algorithm to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1714: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop born. He will be one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.
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1901: Inventor and engineer Rudolf Hell born. He will invent the Hellschreiber teleprinter system.
1953: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan dies. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
1956: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.