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||1665: Kenelm Digby dies ... astrologer, courtier, and diplomat. Powder of sympathy. Pic. | ||1665: Kenelm Digby dies ... astrologer, courtier, and diplomat. Powder of sympathy. Pic. | ||
||1723: Johann Georg Palitzsch born ... astronomer. He became famous for recovering Comet 1P/Halley (better known as Halley's Comet) on Christmas Day, 1758. | ||1723: Johann Georg Palitzsch born ... astronomer. He became famous for recovering Comet 1P/Halley (better known as Halley's Comet) on Christmas Day, 1758. The periodic nature of this comet had been deduced by its namesake Edmond Halley in 1705, but Halley had died before seeing if his prediction would come true. Pic. | ||
||1842: Carl von Linde born ... engineer and academic. He discovered a refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and gas liquefaction processes. Pic. | ||1842: Carl von Linde born ... engineer and academic. He discovered a refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and gas liquefaction processes. Pic. | ||
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||1860: Baden Powell dies ... mathematician and Church of England priest. He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1827 to 1860. Powell was a prominent liberal theologian who put forward advanced ideas about evolution. Pic. | ||1860: Baden Powell dies ... mathematician and Church of England priest. He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1827 to 1860. Powell was a prominent liberal theologian who put forward advanced ideas about evolution. Pic. | ||
||1867: Charles Fabry born ... physicist and academic. | ||1867: Charles Fabry born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1867: Daniel Vorländer born ... chemist who synthesized most of the liquid crystals known until his retirement in 1935. An interesting discovery was that amongst the slimy liquid crystals were many soap and soap-like compounds. No pics online: https://www.google.com/search?q=Daniel+Vorländer | ||1867: Daniel Vorländer born ... chemist who synthesized most of the liquid crystals known until his retirement in 1935. An interesting discovery was that amongst the slimy liquid crystals were many soap and soap-like compounds. No pics online: https://www.google.com/search?q=Daniel+Vorländer | ||
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||1898: Ivar Waller born ... professor of theoretical physics at Uppsala University. He developed the theory of X-ray scattering by lattice vibrations of a crystal, building upon the prior work of Peter Debye. Pic. | ||1898: Ivar Waller born ... professor of theoretical physics at Uppsala University. He developed the theory of X-ray scattering by lattice vibrations of a crystal, building upon the prior work of Peter Debye. Pic. | ||
||1903: Nikolai | ||1903: Nikolai Bugaev dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1909: Natascha Artin Brunswick, née Jasny born ... mathematician and photographer. Pic. | ||1909: Natascha Artin Brunswick, née Jasny born ... mathematician and photographer. Pic. | ||
||1910: Jacques Cousteau born ... biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung. | ||1910: Jacques Cousteau born ... biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung. Pic. | ||
File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1914: ''The Safe-Cracker'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time." | File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1914: ''The Safe-Cracker'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time." | ||
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1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli write in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.
1914: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time."
1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to Thefixisin.
2017: Signed first edition of Red Spiral sells for thirty thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.