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||1923: Bernard Morris Dwork born ... mathematician, known for his application of p-adic analysis to local zeta functions, and in particular for a proof of the first part of the Weil conjectures: the rationality of the zeta-function of a variety over a finite field. For this proof he received, together with Kenkichi Iwasawa, the Cole Prize in 1962.[1] The general theme of Dwork's research was p-adic cohomology and p-adic differential equations. Pic: https://pr.princeton.edu/pwb/98/0525/0525-2a.html | ||1923: Bernard Morris Dwork born ... mathematician, known for his application of p-adic analysis to local zeta functions, and in particular for a proof of the first part of the Weil conjectures: the rationality of the zeta-function of a variety over a finite field. For this proof he received, together with Kenkichi Iwasawa, the Cole Prize in 1962.[1] The general theme of Dwork's research was p-adic cohomology and p-adic differential equations. Pic: https://pr.princeton.edu/pwb/98/0525/0525-2a.html | ||
||1923: John Coleman Moore | ||1923: John Coleman Moore born ... mathematician. The Borel−Moore homology and Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence are named after him. Pic: https://www.math.princeton.edu/people/john-c-moore | ||
File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1931: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] and his assistant Paul Kipfer take off from Augsburg, Germany in their high-altitude balloon, reaching a record altitude of 15,781 m (51,775 ft). During the flight, Piccard gathers data on the upper atmosphere, including cosmic ray measurements. | File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1931: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] and his assistant Paul Kipfer take off from Augsburg, Germany in their high-altitude balloon, reaching a record altitude of 15,781 m (51,775 ft). During the flight, Piccard gathers data on the upper atmosphere, including cosmic ray measurements. | ||
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1610: Factotum and regicide François Ravaillac executed.
1897: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft born. He will be instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
1931: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard and his assistant Paul Kipfer take off from Augsburg, Germany in their high-altitude balloon, reaching a record altitude of 15,781 m (51,775 ft). During the flight, Piccard gathers data on the upper atmosphere, including cosmic ray measurements.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.