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File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1824: Physicist and academic [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] born. He will contribute to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. | File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1824: Physicist and academic [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] born. He will contribute to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. | ||
||1832 | ||1832: Charles Friedel born ... chemist and mineralogist. | ||
||1835 | ||1835: Simon Newcomb born ... astronomer and mathematician. | ||
||1838 | ||1838: William Henry Perkin born ... chemist and academic. | ||
||Zerah Colburn (d. March 2, 1839) was a child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator. Pic. | ||Zerah Colburn (d. March 2, 1839) was a child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator. Pic. | ||
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||1947 – Mary Jean Harrold, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2013) | ||1947 – Mary Jean Harrold, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2013) | ||
||1949 | ||1949: Wilhelm Steinkopf dies ... chemist. | ||
||Lamberto Cesari | ||1972: Louis Joel Mordell dies ... mathematician, known for pioneering research in number theory. Pic. | ||
||1990: Lamberto Cesari dies ... mathematician naturalized in the United States, known for his work on the theory of surface area, the theory of functions of bounded variation, the theory of optimal control and on the stability theory of dynamical systems: in particular, by extending the concept of Tonelli plane variation, he succeeded in introducing the class of functions of bounded variation of several variables in its full generality. | |||
||1991: Ragnar Granit dies ... neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1991: Ragnar Granit dies ... neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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1824: Physicist and academic Gustav Kirchhoff born. He will contribute to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
1882: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead develops new process philosophy using Gnomon algorithm functions, which will later be used to reverse the effects of certain crimes against mathematical constants.
1898: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer dies. He developed an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.
1923: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane falls asleep, relapses into her Janet Beta state.
2016: Mathematician and economist Lloyd Shapley dies. He defined game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation."
2016: Game theory program erases itself, unable to bear the death of Lloyd Shapley.
2016: Signed first edition of Blue Green Blossom sells for an undisclosed amount to "a prominent mathematician from New Minneapolis, Canada" in charity auction to benefit victims of evil bit crimes.
2017: Synthetic organism Ultravore consumes twenty kilograms of plutonium dust with no apparent ill effect.