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|link=Carl David Anderson (nonfiction)|1932: The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by [[Carl David Anderson (nonfiction)|Carl D. Anderson]]. | |link=Carl David Anderson (nonfiction)|1932: The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by [[Carl David Anderson (nonfiction)|Carl D. Anderson]]. | ||
||1939: Harvey Spencer Lewis dies ... mystic and author. Pic. | |||
|link=|1939: Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] to develop a nuclear weapon. | |link=|1939: Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] to develop a nuclear weapon. | ||
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||File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1964: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series accidentally releases new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1964: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series accidentally releases new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1970: Angus MacFarlane-Grieve dies ... academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier. | ||1970: Angus MacFarlane-Grieve dies ... academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier. No pics online. | ||
||1974: Fred C. Allison dies ... physicist. He developed a magneto-optic spectroscopy method | ||1974: Fred C. Allison dies ... physicist. He developed a magneto-optic spectroscopy method that became known as the Allison magneto-optic method. He claimed to have discovered two new elements (later discredited) using this method. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Fred+Allison+physicist | ||
||1976: László Kalmár dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1976: László Kalmár dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
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1820: Physicist John Tyndall born. He will study diamagnetism, and make discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
1835: Electrical engineer Elisha Gray born. He will do pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the telephone.
1917: Mathematician and crime-fighter Ferdinand Georg Frobenius publishes theory of elliptic functions with applications in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1887: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson born. He will make important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.
1905: Mathematician Emmy Noether uses Gnomon algorithm to communicate with Edward Lorenz.
1922: Engineer, inventor, and academic Alexander Graham Bell dies. He patented the telephone in 1876.
1939: Albert Einstein writes President F. D. Roosevelt that "some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard ... leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable--though much less certain--that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may be constructed." Roosevelt quickly starts the Manhattan Project.
2017: Green Ring voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.