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||1945: Vladimir Vernadsky dies ... mineralogist and chemist. Pic. | ||1945: Vladimir Vernadsky dies ... mineralogist and chemist. Pic. | ||
||1955: Susan B. Horwitz born ... computer scientist and academic. | ||1955: Susan B. Horwitz born ... computer scientist and academic ... noted for her research on programming languages and software engineering, and in particular on program slicing and dataflow-analysis. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Susan+B.+Horwitz | ||
||1965: William Bleckwenn dies ... neurologist, psychiatrist, and military physician, who was instrumental in developing the treatment known as "narcoanalysis" or "narcosynthesis", also known by the lay term "truth serum". Pic. | ||1965: William Bleckwenn dies ... neurologist, psychiatrist, and military physician, who was instrumental in developing the treatment known as "narcoanalysis" or "narcosynthesis", also known by the lay term "truth serum". Pic. | ||
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||2004: Thomas Greenway Stockham dies ... scientist who developed one of the first practical digital audio recording systems, and pioneered techniques for digital audio recording and processing as well. Pic. | ||2004: Thomas Greenway Stockham dies ... scientist who developed one of the first practical digital audio recording systems, and pioneered techniques for digital audio recording and processing as well. Pic. | ||
||2012: Roger Boisjoly dies ... aerodynamicist and engineer. | ||2012: Roger Boisjoly dies ... aerodynamicist and engineer. Pic. | ||
File:Violet Spiral.jpg|link=Violet Spiral (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Violet Spiral (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Violet Spiral.jpg|link=Violet Spiral (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Violet Spiral (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
2016: Violet Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.