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||1962: Eduard Rüchardt dies ... physicist. In modern times Rüchardt is mainly noted for the experiment named after him. However, Rüchardt's chief topic was the study of canal rays. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=Eduard+Rüchardt | ||1962: Eduard Rüchardt dies ... physicist. In modern times Rüchardt is mainly noted for the experiment named after him. However, Rüchardt's chief topic was the study of canal rays. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=Eduard+Rüchardt | ||
||1971: Richard Montague dies ... mathematician and philosopher. | ||1964: Samuel S. Wilks dies ... American mathematician and academic who played an important role in the development of mathematical statistics, especially in regard to practical applications. During World War II he was a consultant with the Office of Naval Research. Both during and after the War he had a profound impact on the application of statistical methods to all aspects of military planning. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=samuel+s.+wilks | ||
||1971: Richard Montague dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic. | |||
||1971: The Apollo 14 Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment observed a series of bursts of 48.6 eV water vapor ions at the lunar surface during a 14-h period. The maximum flux observed was 108 ions cm−2 s−1 sr−1. These ions were also observed at Apollo 12, 183 km to the west. Evaluation of specific artificial sources including the Apollo missions and the Russian Lunokhod leads to the conclusion that the water vapor did not come from a man-made source. Natural sources exogenous to the Moon such as comets and the solar wind are also found to be inadequate to explain the observed fluxes. Consequently, these water vapor ions appear to be of lunar origin. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00562753 | ||1971: The Apollo 14 Suprathermal Ion Detector Experiment observed a series of bursts of 48.6 eV water vapor ions at the lunar surface during a 14-h period. The maximum flux observed was 108 ions cm−2 s−1 sr−1. These ions were also observed at Apollo 12, 183 km to the west. Evaluation of specific artificial sources including the Apollo missions and the Russian Lunokhod leads to the conclusion that the water vapor did not come from a man-made source. Natural sources exogenous to the Moon such as comets and the solar wind are also found to be inadequate to explain the observed fluxes. Consequently, these water vapor ions appear to be of lunar origin. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00562753 | ||
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1765: Inventor Nicéphore Niépce born. He will develop heliography, a technique he will use to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process.
1766: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Daniel Bernoulli publishes new Gnomon algorithm function combining statistics and probability which anticipate later developments in quantum (or transdimensional) corporations.
1788: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel born. He will pioneer the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
1875: Flying bison (Bison pterobonasus) sighted near Roswell, New Mexico.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction) is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
1875: Gambling Den Fight wins Royal Society award for most exciting new illustration of the year.
1886: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor born. He will make major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
1898: Theoretical physicist and crime fighter Johannes Diderik van der Waals uses the equation of state for gases and liquids to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1917: Pioneering computer scientist and programmer Betty Holberton born. She will be one of the six original programmers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, and the inventor of breakpoints in computer debugging.
1950: Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
2017: Shell voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2019: Steganographic analysis of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1) unexpectedly reveals "at least a megabyte" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.