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||1893: Frederick McKinley Jones born ... inventor and entrepreneur. | ||1893: Frederick McKinley Jones born ... inventor and entrepreneur. | ||
||1895: Saul Adler born ... microbiologist and parasitologist. Pic. | |||
||1897: Odd Hassel born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1897: Odd Hassel born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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File:Antikythera mechanism (fragment A front).jpg|link=Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the [[Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|Antikythera mechanism]], an ancient mechanical analog computer. | File:Antikythera mechanism (fragment A front).jpg|link=Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the [[Antikythera mechanism (nonfiction)|Antikythera mechanism]], an ancient mechanical analog computer. | ||
||1909: Julius Sumner Miller born ... physicist and academic. | ||1909: Julius Sumner Miller born ... physicist and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=julius+sumner+miller | ||
||1912: Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner born ... inventor. | ||1912: Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner born ... inventor. | ||
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||1916: Boris Borisovich Golitsyn dies ... physicist and seismologist. | ||1916: Boris Borisovich Golitsyn dies ... physicist and seismologist. | ||
||1919: Gustav Naan born ... physicist and philosopher. | ||1919: Gustav Naan born ... physicist and philosopher. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=gustav+naan | ||
||1923: Dr John Paul Wild born ... scientist. In the 1950s and 1960s he made discoveries based on radio observations of the Sun. In the late 1960s and early 1970s his team built and operated the world's first solar radio-spectrographs and subsequently the Culgoora radio-heliograph. Pic. | ||1923: Dr John Paul Wild born ... scientist. In the 1950s and 1960s he made discoveries based on radio observations of the Sun. In the late 1960s and early 1970s his team built and operated the world's first solar radio-spectrographs and subsequently the Culgoora radio-heliograph. Pic. | ||
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1765: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut dies. His work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1854: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis uses Gnomon algorithm functions to prevent outbreak of Kingpin inclination.
1902: Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
1973: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): Televised hearings begin in the United States Senate.
2001: Mathematician Jacques-Louis Lions dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control.
2019: Triumph voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.