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||1736: Stephen Gray dies ... astronomer and physicist. Pic: http://blog.wireandcableyourway.com/stephen-gray-and-the-invention-of-wire | ||1736: Stephen Gray dies ... astronomer and physicist. Pic: http://blog.wireandcableyourway.com/stephen-gray-and-the-invention-of-wire | ||
||1804: John Deere born ... blacksmith and businessman, founded Deere & Company. Pic search | ||1804: John Deere born ... blacksmith and businessman, founded Deere & Company. Pic search. | ||
||1819: Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar. Pic. | ||1819: Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar. Pic. | ||
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File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1889: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|Harry Nyquist]] born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory. | File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1889: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|Harry Nyquist]] born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory. | ||
||1893: Joseph Algernon Pearce born ... astrophysicist and astronomer. Pic search | ||1893: Joseph Algernon Pearce born ... astrophysicist and astronomer. Pic search. | ||
||1897: Maxwell Newman born ... mathematician and codebreaker. Pic. | ||1897: Maxwell Newman born ... mathematician and codebreaker. Pic. | ||
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||1926: Bill Hoest born ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||1926: Bill Hoest born ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||
||1937: George Roger Sell born ... mathematician, specializing in differential equations, dynamical systems, and applications to fluid dynamics, climate modeling, control systems. U of MN. Pic search | ||1937: George Roger Sell born ... mathematician, specializing in differential equations, dynamical systems, and applications to fluid dynamics, climate modeling, control systems. U of MN. Pic search. | ||
||1902: Howard Walter Gilmore dies - "Take her down" - submarine commander in the United States Navy who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his self-sacrifice during World War II. Pic. | |||
File:John von Neumann.gif|link=John von Neumann (nonfiction)|1949: Mathematician, physicist, and computer crime investigator [[John von Neumann (nonfiction)|John von Neumann]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[Crimes against physics|crimes against both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons]]. | File:John von Neumann.gif|link=John von Neumann (nonfiction)|1949: Mathematician, physicist, and computer crime investigator [[John von Neumann (nonfiction)|John von Neumann]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[Crimes against physics|crimes against both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons]]. | ||
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||1987: Adriaan van Wijngaarden dies ... mathematician and computer scientist, who is considered by many to have been the founding father of informatica (computer science) in the Netherlands. Even though he was trained as an engineer, Van Wijngaarden would emphasize and promote the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numerical analysis, then in programming languages and finally in design principles of programming languages. Pic. | ||1987: Adriaan van Wijngaarden dies ... mathematician and computer scientist, who is considered by many to have been the founding father of informatica (computer science) in the Netherlands. Even though he was trained as an engineer, Van Wijngaarden would emphasize and promote the mathematical aspects of computing, first in numerical analysis, then in programming languages and finally in design principles of programming languages. Pic. | ||
||1990: Alan Perlis dies ... computer scientist and academic. Pic search | ||1990: Alan Perlis dies ... computer scientist and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1990: Max Koecher dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1990: Max Koecher dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
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1877: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
1889: Engineer and theorist Harry Nyquist born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory.
1897: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
1898: Novelist, playwright, and journalist Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.
1949: Mathematician, physicist, and computer crime investigator John von Neumann publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.
1960: Physicist and academic Igor Kurchatov dies. Kurchatov played a leading role in the Soviet Union's clandestine nuclear weapons program, culminating in the First Lightning bomb test.
1967: Pyramid of the Sun voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
1999: NASA launches the spacecraft Stardust. On January 2, 2004 it will fly by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to earth on 15 January 2006.