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||1979: Christopher Riche Evans dies ... psychologist, computer scientist, and author. Pic: http://www.cdpa.co.uk/Newman/MHAN/view-item.php?Box=3&Folder=4&Item=3&Page=1 | ||1979: Christopher Riche Evans dies ... psychologist, computer scientist, and author. Pic: http://www.cdpa.co.uk/Newman/MHAN/view-item.php?Box=3&Folder=4&Item=3&Page=1 | ||
||1982: Jean Effel dies ... painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=jean+effel | |||
||1986: Gleb Wataghin dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||1986: Gleb Wataghin dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
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||1997: Michael J. S. Dewar dies ... American theoretical chemist who developed the Dewar-Chatt-Duncanson model. Dewar is known most famously for the development in the 1970s and 1980s of the Semi-empirical quantum chemistry methods, MINDO, MNDO, AM1 and PM3 that are in the MOPAC computer program, and which for the first time enabled the quantitative study of the structure and mechanism of reaction (transition state) of many real (i.e. large) systems. Pic. | ||1997: Michael J. S. Dewar dies ... American theoretical chemist who developed the Dewar-Chatt-Duncanson model. Dewar is known most famously for the development in the 1970s and 1980s of the Semi-empirical quantum chemistry methods, MINDO, MNDO, AM1 and PM3 that are in the MOPAC computer program, and which for the first time enabled the quantitative study of the structure and mechanism of reaction (transition state) of many real (i.e. large) systems. Pic. | ||
||1998: Konstantin Petrzhak dies ... nuclear physicist and university professor of Polish origin. He discovered spontaneous fission of uranium with Georgy Flyorov in 1940; in addition, he also aided in Soviet Union's atomic bomb project. | ||1998: Konstantin Petrzhak dies ... nuclear physicist and university professor of Polish origin. He discovered spontaneous fission of uranium with Georgy Flyorov in 1940; in addition, he also aided in Soviet Union's atomic bomb project. Pic. | ||
||1998: William Markowitz dies ... astronomer, principally known for his work on the standardization of time. Pic: https://aas.org/obituaries/william-markowitz-1907-1998 | ||1998: William Markowitz dies ... astronomer, principally known for his work on the standardization of time. Pic: https://aas.org/obituaries/william-markowitz-1907-1998 | ||
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1641: Torricelli arrives in Arcetri to study with Galileo. ".. postpone his arrival at Arcetri until 10 October 1641. He took up residence in Galileo’s house, where Vincenzo Viviani was already living, and stayed there in close friendship with Galileo until the latter’s death on 8 January 1642.
1708: Mathematician and astronomer David Gregory dies. At the Union of 1707, he was given the responsibility of reorganizing the Scottish Mint.
1730: Physicist and crime-fighter Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit uses precision thermometry to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1731: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish born. He will discover "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.
1888: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
1889: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren born. He will be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
1943: Mathematician and soldier Janet Beta accepts commission with secret military-intelligence program ENIAC.
2016: Crimson Blossom voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.