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||1868: Carlo Matteucci dies ... physicist and neurophysiologist. | ||1868: Carlo Matteucci dies ... physicist and neurophysiologist. | ||
||1868: Alexander Mitchell dies ... blind engineer, invented the Screw-pile lighthouse. Pic search | ||1868: Alexander Mitchell dies ... blind engineer, invented the Screw-pile lighthouse. Pic search. | ||
||1874: Rose O'Neill born ... cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. | ||1874: Rose O'Neill born ... cartoonist, illustrator, artist, and writer. | ||
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||1928: Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov born ... theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures. Pic. | ||1928: Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov born ... theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1928: Alexander Toth born ... cartoonist active from the 1940s through the 1980s. Toth's work began in the American comic book industry, but he is also known for his animation designs for Hanna-Barbera throughout the 1960s and 1970s. His work included Super Friends, Fantastic Four, Space Ghost, Sealab 2020, The Herculoids and Birdman. Toth's work has been resurrected in the late-night, adult-themed spin-offs on Cartoon Network: Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Sealab 2021 and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1931: Anatoli Georgievich Vitushkin born ... mathematician noted for his work on mathematical analysis and analytic capacity. Pic search. | ||
||1935: Charles Sheffield born ... mathematician, physicist, and author. Pic search | ||1933: Roy Dommett born ... scientist and engineer ... rockets. Pic search. | ||
||1935: Charles Sheffield born ... mathematician, physicist, and author. Pic search. | |||
||1941: Alfred Pringsheim dies ... mathematician and patron of the arts. He will study real and complex functions, following the power-series-approach of the Weierstrass school. Pringsheim published numerous works on the subject of complex analysis, with a focus on the summability theory of infinite series and the boundary behavior of analytic functions. Pic. | ||1941: Alfred Pringsheim dies ... mathematician and patron of the arts. He will study real and complex functions, following the power-series-approach of the Weierstrass school. Pringsheim published numerous works on the subject of complex analysis, with a focus on the summability theory of infinite series and the boundary behavior of analytic functions. Pic. | ||
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1593: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati dies. He was one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
1671: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli dies. He experimented with pendulums and falling bodies, discussed arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduced the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
1764: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1907: Nuclear physicist J. Hans D. Jensen born. He will share half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.
1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.
2017: New computational analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing reveals previously unknown cache of steganographic data.