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||1909: Friedrich Bachmann born ... mathematician who specialized in geometry and group theory. PIc. | ||1909: Friedrich Bachmann born ... mathematician who specialized in geometry and group theory. PIc. | ||
||1914: Alexander Ross Clarke dies ... geodesist who made calculations of the size and shape of the Earth (the Clarke ellipsoid) were the first to approximate accepted modern values with respect to both polar flattening and equatorial radius. The figures from his second determination (1866) became a standard reference for U.S. geodesy for most of the twentieth century until satellites could improve accuracy. In 1880, Clarke coined the term "Geodesy" when he published his famous book by that title. Pic. | |||
||1915: Richard Hamming born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1915: Richard Hamming born ... mathematician and academic. | ||
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||1921: Jacques Friedel born ... physicist and material scientist. Pic. | ||1921: Jacques Friedel born ... physicist and material scientist. Pic. | ||
||1923: Wilhelm Killing dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||1923: Wilhelm Killing dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||1924: Jacques Loeb dies ... American physiologist and biologist. Messaging. Pic. | ||1924: Jacques Loeb dies ... American physiologist and biologist. Messaging. Pic. | ||
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1617: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini dies. He supported a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.
1618: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes publishes his essay Man's Inhumanity to Man, which will profoundly influence three generations of Enlightenment-era thinkers.
1650: Mathematician and philosopher René Descartes dies. He is remembered as the father of modern Western philosophy.
1760: First known use of Japanese rod calculus to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1847: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison born. He will develop the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
1884: Set theorist and crime-fighter Georg Cantor saves Edward Lear from attack by math criminals.
1898: Physicist and academic Leo Szilard born. He will conceive the nuclear chain reaction in 1933, and patent the idea of a nuclear reactor with Enrico Fermi.
1930: Mathematician, statistician, and crime-fighter Oskar Anderson publishes new theory of mathematical statistics based on Gnomon algorithm functions with applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1931: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons dies. He invented the compound steam turbine, and worked on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.
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1944: Mathematical physicist and crime-fighter Charles Critchfield uses burst of neutrons to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1973: Nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize laureate J. Hans D. Jensen dies. He shared half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.