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||1862: Richard F. Outcault born ... cartoonist, created ''The Yellow Kid'' and ''Buster Brown''. Pic. | ||1862: Richard F. Outcault born ... cartoonist, created ''The Yellow Kid'' and ''Buster Brown''. Pic. | ||
||1872: Morris Travers born ... chemist and academic ... "rare gas man". Pic search | ||1872: Morris Travers born ... chemist and academic ... "rare gas man". Pic search. | ||
||1877: Johann Christian Poggendorff dies ... physicist and journalist. Pic. | ||1877: Johann Christian Poggendorff dies ... physicist and journalist. Pic. | ||
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||1888: Ernst Heinkel born ... engineer and businessman, founded the Heinkel Aircraft Manufacturing Company. Pic. | ||1888: Ernst Heinkel born ... engineer and businessman, founded the Heinkel Aircraft Manufacturing Company. Pic. | ||
||1902: Oskar Morgenstern born ... economist. In collaboration with mathematician John von Neumann, he founded the mathematical field of game theory and its application to economics Pic search | ||1902: Oskar Morgenstern born ... economist. In collaboration with mathematician John von Neumann, he founded the mathematical field of game theory and its application to economics. Pic search. | ||
||1908: Hans Heinrich von Halban born ... physicist. Pic. | ||1908: Hans Heinrich von Halban born ... physicist. Pic. | ||
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||1912: Nils Aall Barricelli born ... mathematician. His computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution are considered pioneering in artificial life research. Pic. | ||1912: Nils Aall Barricelli born ... mathematician. His computer-assisted experiments in symbiogenesis and evolution are considered pioneering in artificial life research. Pic. | ||
||1914: Vladimir Potapov born ... He worked on the theory of J-contractive matrix functions, the analysis of matrix functions, and interpolation problems. mathematician. Pic search | ||1843: David Gill dies ... astronomer and author. Pic. | ||
||1914: Vladimir Potapov born ... He worked on the theory of J-contractive matrix functions, the analysis of matrix functions, and interpolation problems. mathematician. Pic search. | |||
||1918: Kenneth Greisen born ... physicist who worked on nuclear physics and the astrophysics of cosmic rays and gamma radiation. "He will be most remembered for his realization that the cosmic microwave background limits the high-energy end of the spectrum of cosmic ray protons." Pic. | ||1918: Kenneth Greisen born ... physicist who worked on nuclear physics and the astrophysics of cosmic rays and gamma radiation. "He will be most remembered for his realization that the cosmic microwave background limits the high-energy end of the spectrum of cosmic ray protons." Pic. | ||
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||1921: Susan Jane Cunningham dies ... mathematician. Cunningham was instrumental in the founding and development of Swarthmore College. Pic. | ||1921: Susan Jane Cunningham dies ... mathematician. Cunningham was instrumental in the founding and development of Swarthmore College. Pic. | ||
||1925: Meir "Manny" Lehman, born ... computer scientist and academic. His research contributions include the early realisation of the software evolution phenomenon and the eponymous Lehman's laws of software evolution. Pic search | ||1925: Meir "Manny" Lehman, born ... computer scientist and academic. His research contributions include the early realisation of the software evolution phenomenon and the eponymous Lehman's laws of software evolution. Pic search. | ||
||1931: Lars Hörmander born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1931: Lars Hörmander born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
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1798: Mathematician Karl Georg Christian von Staudt born. He will use synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic.
1879: Glassblower, physicist, and inventor Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geißler dies. He invented the Geissler tube, made of glass and used as a low pressure gas-discharge luminescence tube.
1960: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises funds for new film about the upcoming Goldsboro B-52 crash.
1961: Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
1977: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he is "confident that the upcoming Kosmos 954 radioactive debris scattering event is a sound business investment."
1978: Soviet satellite Kosmos 954, with a nuclear reactor on board, burns up in Earth's atmosphere, scattering radioactive debris over Canada's Northwest Territories. Only 1% is recovered.
1988: Mathematician and academic Werner Fenchel dies. He established the basic results of convex analysis and nonlinear optimization theory which would, in time, serve as the foundation for nonlinear programming.
2016: John Hoyland's Lebanon stolen in broad daylight by agents of the criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.
2016: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky dies. Minsky's inventions include the first head-mounted graphical display (1963) and the confocal microscope (1957, a predecessor to today's widely used confocal laser scanning microscope).
2018: Steganographic analysis of Blue Foliage unexpectedly reveals "at least four hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
2017: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants," says mathematician and crime-fighter Janet Beta.