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||1790: Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1736) | ||1790: Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1736) | ||
||1817: Valentine Seaman dies ... was an American physician who introduced the smallpox vaccine to the United States and mapped yellow fever in New York City. His contributions to public health also include women's education in nursing and midwifery. Pic not Wikipedia. | ||1817: Valentine Seaman dies ... was an American physician who introduced the smallpox vaccine to the United States and mapped yellow fever in New York City. His contributions to public health also include women's education in nursing and midwifery. Pic not Wikipedia. | ||
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||1897: Jesse Douglas born ... mathematician and academic. He will contribute a general solution of the Problem of Plateau, which asks whether a minimal surface exists for a given boundary. The problem, open since 1760 when Lagrange raised it, is part of the calculus of variations and is also known as the soap bubble problem. Pic: https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/jesse-douglas/ | ||1897: Jesse Douglas born ... mathematician and academic. He will contribute a general solution of the Problem of Plateau, which asks whether a minimal surface exists for a given boundary. The problem, open since 1760 when Lagrange raised it, is part of the calculus of variations and is also known as the soap bubble problem. Pic: https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/jesse-douglas/ | ||
||1903: Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer dies ... mathematician remembered best as an algebraist. Gegenbauer polynomials are named after him. Pic. | |||
||1921: Viktor von Lang dies ... chemist. He is counted among the pioneers and founders of crystal physics. | ||1921: Viktor von Lang dies ... chemist. He is counted among the pioneers and founders of crystal physics. | ||
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||1941: Włodzimierz Stożek dies was a Polish mathematician. He published numerous papers on the theory of integral equations, potential theory, as well as on many other branches of mathematics. (Death date: or July 4). Pic. | ||1941: Włodzimierz Stożek dies was a Polish mathematician. He published numerous papers on the theory of integral equations, potential theory, as well as on many other branches of mathematics. (Death date: or July 4). Pic. | ||
||1964: Isidor Pavlovich Natanson dies ... mathematician known for contributions to real analysis and constructive function theory, in particular, for his textbooks on these subjects. | ||1964: Isidor Pavlovich Natanson dies ... mathematician known for contributions to real analysis and constructive function theory, in particular, for his textbooks on these subjects. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Isidor+Natanson | ||
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File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1968: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for new film by shelling shares in the upcoming [[N1 rocket (nonfiction)|N1 rocket explosion]]. | File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1968: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for new film by shelling shares in the upcoming [[N1 rocket (nonfiction)|N1 rocket explosion]]. | ||
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1518: Physician and scientist Li Shizhen born. He will develop many innovative methods for the proper classification of herb components and medications to be used for treating diseases, earning a reputation as the greatest scientific naturalist of China.
1777: Philosopher and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau warns that "the Enlightenment itself, built as it is on the certainties of mathematics and logic, now stands in peril from the generation of math criminals now coming of age."
1881: Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher Hasan Tahsini dies. He was one of the most prominent scholars of the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century.
1968: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by shelling shares in the upcoming N1 rocket explosion.
1969: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
1970: Mathematician, dissident, and crime-fighter Igor Shafarevich publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2007: NASA approves a mission extension for Stardust, sending the spacecraft to comet Tempel 1.
2016: Chromatographic analysis of Green Tangle unexpectedly reveals "at least five, perhaps as many as ten" previously unknown shades of green.