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||1293: Henry of Ghent dies ... philosopher. | ||1293: Henry of Ghent dies ... philosopher. No DOB. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=henry+of+ghent | ||
||1793: Josef Ressel born ... inventor, invented the propeller. | ||1793: Josef Ressel born ... inventor, invented the propeller. Pic. | ||
||1807: Moritz Abraham Stern born ... mathematician. Stern was interested in primes that cannot be expressed as the sum of a prime and twice a square (now known as Stern primes). He is known for formulating Stern's diatomic series, which counts the number of ways to write a number as a sum of powers of two with no power used more than twice. Pic. | ||1807: Moritz Abraham Stern born ... mathematician. Stern was interested in primes that cannot be expressed as the sum of a prime and twice a square (now known as Stern primes). He is known for formulating Stern's diatomic series, which counts the number of ways to write a number as a sum of powers of two with no power used more than twice. Pic. | ||
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||1909: Kôdi Husimi born ... theoretical physicist who served as the president of the Science Council of Japan.[1] Husimi trees in graph theory, the Husimi Q representation in quantum mechanics, and Husimi's theorem in the mathematics of paper folding are named after him. No pic online (except diagrams from papers). | ||1909: Kôdi Husimi born ... theoretical physicist who served as the president of the Science Council of Japan.[1] Husimi trees in graph theory, the Husimi Q representation in quantum mechanics, and Husimi's theorem in the mathematics of paper folding are named after him. No pic online (except diagrams from papers). | ||
||1924: Robert Simpson Woodward dies ... physicist and mathematician. | ||1924: Robert Simpson Woodward dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic. | ||
File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1963: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] uses new theory of quantum electronics to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1963: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] uses new theory of quantum electronics to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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1868: Astronomer and journalist George Ellery Hale born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.
1869: Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Astonishing Illustration of the Year.
1895: Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley dies. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1896: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky born. He will work with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
1963: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov uses new theory of quantum electronics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.