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File:Jacques-Louis Lions.jpg|link=Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician [[Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|Jacques-Louis Lions]] dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control. | File:Jacques-Louis Lions.jpg|link=Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|2001: Mathematician [[Jacques-Louis Lions (nonfiction)|Jacques-Louis Lions]] dies. He made contributions to the theory of partial differential equations and to stochastic control. | ||
||2014: Gerald Edelman dies ... biologist and immunologist | ||2002: Dave Berg dies ... soldier and cartoonist. Pic (self portrait cartoon). | ||
||2014: Gerald Edelman dies ... biologist and immunologist ... shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for work with Rodney Robert Porter on the immune system. Edelman's Nobel Prize-winning research concerned discovery of the structure of antibody molecules.[2] In interviews, he has said that the way the components of the immune system evolve over the life of the individual is analogous to the way the components of the brain evolve in a lifetime. Pic. | |||
||2014: Clarence Ellis born ... computer scientist and academic. Ellis was a pioneer in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Groupware. He and his team at Xerox PARC created OfficeTalk, one of the first groupware systems. Ellis also pioneered Operational Transformation, which is a set of techniques that enables real-time collaborative editing of documents. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=clarence+ellis+computer+scientist | ||2014: Clarence Ellis born ... computer scientist and academic. Ellis was a pioneer in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Groupware. He and his team at Xerox PARC created OfficeTalk, one of the first groupware systems. Ellis also pioneered Operational Transformation, which is a set of techniques that enables real-time collaborative editing of documents. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=clarence+ellis+computer+scientist | ||
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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.