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||1824: William Huggins born ... astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy together with his wife Margaret Lindsay Huggins. Pic. | ||1824: William Huggins born ... astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy together with his wife Margaret Lindsay Huggins. Pic. | ||
||1833: Jacob Mendes Da Costa born ... physician. | ||1833: Jacob Mendes Da Costa born ... physician. Pic. | ||
||1859: Mathematician and astronomer James Inman dies ... Pic: https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/%E2%80%9Codd-little-book%E2%80%9D-revealed-be-chinese-musical-gem | ||1859: Mathematician and astronomer James Inman dies ... Pic: https://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/%E2%80%9Codd-little-book%E2%80%9D-revealed-be-chinese-musical-gem | ||
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File:John Tyndall 1878.jpg|link=John Tyndall (nonfiction)|1878: Physicist [[John Tyndall (nonfiction)|John Tyndall]] uses a series of infra-red light devices to send a message from the White House to [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]] in less than seven minutes. | File:John Tyndall 1878.jpg|link=John Tyndall (nonfiction)|1878: Physicist [[John Tyndall (nonfiction)|John Tyndall]] uses a series of infra-red light devices to send a message from the White House to [[New Minneapolis, Canada|New Minneapolis]] in less than seven minutes. | ||
||1883: Eric Temple Bell born ... mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine. | ||1883: Eric Temple Bell born ... mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine. Pic. | ||
File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1889: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|Harry Nyquist]] born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory. | File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1889: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|Harry Nyquist]] born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory. | ||
||1893: Joseph Algernon Pearce born ... astrophysicist and astronomer | ||1893: Joseph Algernon Pearce born ... astrophysicist and astronomer. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joseph+Algernon+Pearce | ||
||1897: Maxwell Herman Alexander "Max" Newman born ... mathematician and codebreaker. | ||1897: Maxwell Herman Alexander "Max" Newman born ... mathematician and codebreaker. Pic. | ||
File:Galileo Ferraris.jpg|link=Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist and electrical engineer [[Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|Galileo Ferraris]] dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor. | File:Galileo Ferraris.jpg|link=Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist and electrical engineer [[Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|Galileo Ferraris]] dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor. | ||
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1877: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
1878: Physicist John Tyndall uses a series of infra-red light devices to send a message from the White House to New Minneapolis in less than seven minutes.
1889: Engineer and theorist Harry Nyquist born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory.
1897: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
1898: Novelist, playwright, and journalist Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.
1949: Mathematician, physicist, and computer crime investigator John von Neumann publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.
1961: Mathematician and military intelligence officer Janet Beta is secretly dosed with Clandestiphrine.
1999: NASA launches the spacecraft Stardust. On January 2, 2004 it will fly by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to earth on 15 January 2006.