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||1769: Alexander von Humboldt born ... polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. Pic. | ||1769: Alexander von Humboldt born ... polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. Pic. | ||
||1835: Astronomer and churchman John Mortimer Brinkley dies. He contributed to stellar astronomy, publishing his ''Elements of Plane Astronomy'' in 1808. Pic search | ||1835: Astronomer and churchman John Mortimer Brinkley dies. He contributed to stellar astronomy, publishing his ''Elements of Plane Astronomy'' in 1808. Pic search. | ||
||1837: Nikolai Bugaev born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic. | ||1837: Nikolai Bugaev born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic. | ||
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||1887: Karl Taylor Compton born ... physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948. Pic. | ||1887: Karl Taylor Compton born ... physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948. Pic. | ||
||1891: Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov born ... mathematician and academic ... one of the creators of modern analytic number theory. Pic search | ||1891: Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov born ... mathematician and academic ... one of the creators of modern analytic number theory. Pic search. | ||
||1901: Chemist Richard Helmuth Frederick Manske born. First synthesized DMT. Pic: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89667801/richard-helmuth_frederick-manske | ||1901: Chemist Richard Helmuth Frederick Manske born. First synthesized DMT. Pic: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/89667801/richard-helmuth_frederick-manske | ||
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||1912: Georg Landsberg dies ... mathematician, known for his work in the theory of algebraic functions and on the Riemann–Roch theorem. The Takagi–Landsberg curve, a fractal that is the graph of a nowhere-differentiable but uniformly continuous function, is named after Teiji Takagi and him. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georg_Landsberg_(HeidICON_28864).jpg | ||1912: Georg Landsberg dies ... mathematician, known for his work in the theory of algebraic functions and on the Riemann–Roch theorem. The Takagi–Landsberg curve, a fractal that is the graph of a nowhere-differentiable but uniformly continuous function, is named after Teiji Takagi and him. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Georg_Landsberg_(HeidICON_28864).jpg | ||
||1913: Rubby Sherr born ... physicist and academic. Pic search | ||1913: Rubby Sherr born ... physicist and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1915: John Dobson born ... astronomer and author .. best known for the Dobsonian telescope, a portable, low-cost Newtonian reflector telescope; also known for his efforts to promote awareness of astronomy (and his unorthodox views of physical cosmology) through public lectures including his performances of "sidewalk astronomy." Pic. | ||1915: John Dobson born ... astronomer and author .. best known for the Dobsonian telescope, a portable, low-cost Newtonian reflector telescope; also known for his efforts to promote awareness of astronomy (and his unorthodox views of physical cosmology) through public lectures including his performances of "sidewalk astronomy." Pic. | ||
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||1959: The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it. | ||1959: The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it. | ||
||1960: Arthur Percy Morris Fleming dies ... electrical engineer, researcher director, and engineering educator. Pic search | ||1960: Arthur Percy Morris Fleming dies ... electrical engineer, researcher director, and engineering educator. Pic search. | ||
File:Flag of OPEC.svg|link=Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|1960: The [[Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries]] (OPEC) is founded. | File:Flag of OPEC.svg|link=Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|1960: The [[Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (nonfiction)|Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries]] (OPEC) is founded. | ||
||1982: Alberto González Domínguez dies ... mathematician working on analysis, probability theory and quantum field theory. Pic search | ||1982: Alberto González Domínguez dies ... mathematician working on analysis, probability theory and quantum field theory. Pic search. | ||
File:Hans Weinberger.jpg|link=Hans Weinberger (nonfiction)|2009: Mathematician and academic [[Hans Weinberger (nonfiction)|Hans F. Weinberger]] visits the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]], where he gives an impromptu lecture on applications of variational methods for eigenvalue problems in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Hans Weinberger.jpg|link=Hans Weinberger (nonfiction)|2009: Mathematician and academic [[Hans Weinberger (nonfiction)|Hans F. Weinberger]] visits the [[Nested Radical]] coffeehouse in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]], where he gives an impromptu lecture on applications of variational methods for eigenvalue problems in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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1712: Mathematician, astronomer, and engineer Giovanni Domenico Cassini dies. He discovered four satellites of the planet Saturn and noted the division of the rings of Saturn; the Cassini Division was named after him.
1713: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies born. He will be one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and willl dedicate two of his works to the Englishman.
1916: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem dies. He wrote: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1960: The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
2009: Mathematician and academic Hans F. Weinberger visits the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada, where he gives an impromptu lecture on applications of variational methods for eigenvalue problems in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
2018: Pilgrim declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.