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||1776: James Ferguson dies ... astronomer and instrument maker. Pic. | ||1776: James Ferguson dies ... astronomer and instrument maker. Pic. | ||
||1833: Joseph Williams Lovibond born ... brewer who developed the world's first practical colorimeter as a means of ensuring the high quality of his beer. He was the originator of the Degrees Lovibond scale. Pic search | ||1833: Joseph Williams Lovibond born ... brewer who developed the world's first practical colorimeter as a means of ensuring the high quality of his beer. He was the originator of the Degrees Lovibond scale. Pic search. | ||
||1865: James McCune Smith dies ... physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author ... He used his training in medicine and statistics to refute common misconceptions about race, intelligence, medicine, and society in general. Invited as a founding member of the New York Statistics Society in 1852, which promoted a new science, he was elected as a member in 1854 of the recently founded American Geographic Society. But he was never admitted to the American Medical Association or local medical associations ... also an abolitionist. Pic. | ||1865: James McCune Smith dies ... physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author ... He used his training in medicine and statistics to refute common misconceptions about race, intelligence, medicine, and society in general. Invited as a founding member of the New York Statistics Society in 1852, which promoted a new science, he was elected as a member in 1854 of the recently founded American Geographic Society. But he was never admitted to the American Medical Association or local medical associations ... also an abolitionist. Pic. | ||
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||1973: The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. | ||1973: The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. | ||
||1986: Harold Grad dies ... applied mathematician. His work specialized in the application of statistical mechanics to plasma physics and magnetohydrodynamics. Pic. | |||
File:Robert Hofstadter.jpg|link=Robert Hofstadter (nonfiction)|1990: Physicist and academic [[Robert Hofstadter (nonfiction)|Robert Hofstadter]] dies. He shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with [[Rudolf Mössbauer (nonfiction)|Rudolf Mössbauer]]) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons". | File:Robert Hofstadter.jpg|link=Robert Hofstadter (nonfiction)|1990: Physicist and academic [[Robert Hofstadter (nonfiction)|Robert Hofstadter]] dies. He shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with [[Rudolf Mössbauer (nonfiction)|Rudolf Mössbauer]]) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons". | ||
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||2000: Louis Néel dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||2000: Louis Néel dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2015: Irma M. Wyman dies ... early computer engineer and the first woman to become vice president of Honeywell, Inc. She was a systems thinking tutor and was the first female CIO of Honeywell. Pic search | ||2015: Irma M. Wyman dies ... early computer engineer and the first woman to become vice president of Honeywell, Inc. She was a systems thinking tutor and was the first female CIO of Honeywell. Pic search. | ||
File:Green Tangle 4.jpg|link=Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|Green Tangle 4]]'' used in routine [[high-energy literature]] experiment unexpected develops [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]]. | File:Green Tangle 4.jpg|link=Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|2018: Signed first edition of ''[[Green Tangle 4 (nonfiction)|Green Tangle 4]]'' used in routine [[high-energy literature]] experiment unexpected develops [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]]. | ||
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1790: Mathematician and astronomer August Ferdinand Möbius born. He will discover the Möbius strip, a non-orientable two-dimensional surface with only one side when embedded in three-dimensional Euclidean space.
1894: John Venn invents new Demon-hunting diagram, leading to arrest of serial killer H. H. Holmes.
1894: H. H. Holmes, one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts.
1924: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz born. A "documentalist", she was particularly known for her work in thesaurus construction and machine-aided indexing, innovating techniques for punch card information retrieval.
1925: Mathematician and social activist Alice Beta interviews famed inventor and data processing pioneer Herman Hollerith.
1929: Inventor Herman Hollerith dies. He will later be recognized as a pioneer of data processing.
1949: Mathematician and crime-fighter Aleksandr Khinchin publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on modern probability theory which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1972: Industrialist, military contractor, and alleged crime boss Colonel Zersetzung privately advises Richard Nixon to "tell the reporters that you are not a crook."
1973: Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
1973: In Washington, D.C., composer and alleged math criminal Skip Digits tells 400 Associated Press managing editors that "Richard Nixon is not a crook."
1990: Physicist and academic Robert Hofstadter dies. He shared the 1961 Nobel Prize in Physics (together with Rudolf Mössbauer) "for his pioneering studies of electron scattering in atomic nuclei and for his consequent discoveries concerning the structure of nucleons".
2018: Signed first edition of Green Tangle 4 used in routine high-energy literature experiment unexpected develops artificial intelligence.