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||1859: Isambard Kingdom Brunel dies ... mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history" | ||1859: Isambard Kingdom Brunel dies ... mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history" | ||
||1883: Joseph Plateau dies ... physicist and academic. | ||1883: Joseph Plateau dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1883: Esteban Terrades i Illa born ... mathematician, scientist and engineer. He researched and taught widely in the fields of mathematics and the physical sciences. | ||1883: Esteban Terrades i Illa born ... mathematician, scientist and engineer. He researched and taught widely in the fields of mathematics and the physical sciences. |
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1736: Astronomer, mathematician, and politician Jean Sylvain Bailly born. His work as an astronomer lead to his recognition and admiration by the European scientific community.
1944: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by selling shares in the upcoming death of physicist and crime-fighter Harry Daghlian.
1945: Physicist Harry Daghlian dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1945: Extract of Radium distributor and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung uses the death of physicist and crime-fighter Harry Daghlian as a pretext for stealing the demon core.
1989: Lorenz system develops self-awareness, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm function.
2017: Mathematician and academic Hans F. Weinberger dies. He contributed to variational methods for eigenvalue problems, partial differential equations, and fluid dynamics.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Shell unexpectedly reveals "at least four-thousand and ninety six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.