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||1979: Shin'ichirō Tomonaga dies ... physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. Pic. | ||1979: Shin'ichirō Tomonaga dies ... physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger. Pic. | ||
||1979: Robert Burns Woodward dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1979: Robert Burns Woodward dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2002: Ward Kimball dies ... animator and trombonist. | ||2002: Ward Kimball dies ... animator and trombonist. | ||
||2008: Sixto Ríos García dies ... mathematician, known as the father of Spanish statistics. | ||2008: Sixto Ríos García dies ... mathematician, known as the father of Spanish statistics. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sixto+Ríos+García | ||
||2010: David Blackwell dies ... statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics. He is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. Pic. | ||2010: David Blackwell dies ... statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics. He is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. Pic. | ||
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1695: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens dies. He was a leading scientist of his time.
1759: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop publishes an analysis of Gnomon algorithm techniques which will inspire future generations of scientists to construct the ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") project.
1766: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey born. He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.
1767: Anatomist, anatomical wax modeler, and crime-fighter Anna Morandi Manzolini publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent Organic golem generation.
1947: The Roswell UFO incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.
1948: Janet Beta at ENIAC "raises more questions that it answers," says director of Project Blue Book.
1960: Pilot Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.