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||1765: Joseph Priestley, visiting in London, is introduced to Benjamin Franklin, and other members of the "Honest Whigs" by John Canton in a popular coffee house in the shadow of St Pauls cathedral. Priestly had presented himself to Canton with a letter of introduction from Priestley's friend and rector at Warrington Academy that read, "You will find a benevolent, sensible man, with a considerable sense of learning. If Dr. Franklin be in Town,I believe Dr. Priestley would be glad to be made known of him." Before the night was over, Priestly had acquired their support for a book about their mutual efforts in the discovery of electricity. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2018/12/on-this-day-in-math-december-19.html | ||1765: Joseph Priestley, visiting in London, is introduced to Benjamin Franklin, and other members of the "Honest Whigs" by John Canton in a popular coffee house in the shadow of St Pauls cathedral. Priestly had presented himself to Canton with a letter of introduction from Priestley's friend and rector at Warrington Academy that read, "You will find a benevolent, sensible man, with a considerable sense of learning. If Dr. Franklin be in Town,I believe Dr. Priestley would be glad to be made known of him." Before the night was over, Priestly had acquired their support for a book about their mutual efforts in the discovery of electricity. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2018/12/on-this-day-in-math-december-19.html | ||
||1852: Albert Abraham Michelson born ... physicist, chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1852: Albert Abraham Michelson born ... physicist, chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1854: Louis Marcel Brillouin born ... physicist and mathematician. He will publish experimental and theoretic papers on a wide range of topics including gas kinetics, viscosity, thermodynamics, electricity, melting conditions, aircraft stability, and tidal dynamics. He also built a new model of the Eötvös balance. Pic. | ||1854: Louis Marcel Brillouin born ... physicist and mathematician. He will publish experimental and theoretic papers on a wide range of topics including gas kinetics, viscosity, thermodynamics, electricity, melting conditions, aircraft stability, and tidal dynamics. He also built a new model of the Eötvös balance. Pic. | ||
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||1993: Hans Rohrbach dies ... mathematician. He worked both as an algebraist and a number theorist and later worked as cryptanalyst at Pers Z S, the German Foreign Office cipher bureau, during World War II. Pic. | ||1993: Hans Rohrbach dies ... mathematician. He worked both as an algebraist and a number theorist and later worked as cryptanalyst at Pers Z S, the German Foreign Office cipher bureau, during World War II. Pic. | ||
||1998: Mel Fisher dies ... treasure hunter | ||1998: Mel Fisher dies ... treasure hunter. | ||
||1999: Dennis William Siahou Sciama (d. 18/19 December 1999) was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology. | ||1999: Dennis William Siahou Sciama (d. 18/19 December 1999) was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology. Pic. | ||
||2004: Herbert C. Brown dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate for his work with organobromanes. Pic. | ||2004: Herbert C. Brown dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate for his work with organobromanes. Pic. | ||
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1601: Mathematician Robert Fludd uses Gnomon algorithm to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1714: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop born. He will be one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.
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1901: Inventor and engineer Rudolf Hell born. He will invent the Hellschreiber teleprinter system.
1953: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan dies. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
1956: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
2015: Steganographic analysis of still images from the Toledo giant red ball incident video unexpectedly reveals a computer virus which "specifically targets this type of red ball, and undoubtedly caused its erratic behavior."