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||1865: Johann Franz Encke dies ... astronomer and academic ... worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the earth to the sun, and made observations of the planet Saturn. Pic. | ||1865: Johann Franz Encke dies ... astronomer and academic ... worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the earth to the sun, and made observations of the planet Saturn. Pic. | ||
||1865: Arthur James Arnot born ... engineer, designed the Spencer Street Power Station. Pic search | ||1865: Arthur James Arnot born ... engineer, designed the Spencer Street Power Station. Pic search. | ||
||1873: Lee de Forest born ... engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube. Pic. | ||1873: Lee de Forest born ... engineer and academic, invented the Audion tube. Pic. | ||
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||1935: Karen Spärck Jones born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic. | ||1935: Karen Spärck Jones born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1961: Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson dies ... mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle. Pic search | ||1961: Howard Percy "Bob" Robertson dies ... mathematician and physicist known for contributions related to physical cosmology and the uncertainty principle. Pic search. | ||
File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1974: Pilot and explorer [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] dies. At age 25 in 1927 he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris. | File:Charles Lindbergh.jpg|link=Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|1974: Pilot and explorer [[Charles Lindbergh (nonfiction)|Charles Lindbergh]] dies. At age 25 in 1927 he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris. | ||
||1977: Mathematician and academic Robert Schatten dies. He made fundamental contributions to functional analysis, where he is the namesake of the Schatten norm and the Schatten class operators. He also studied tensor products of Banach spaces. Pic search | ||1977: Mathematician and academic Robert Schatten dies. He made fundamental contributions to functional analysis, where he is the namesake of the Schatten norm and the Schatten class operators. He also studied tensor products of Banach spaces. Pic search. | ||
||1987: Georg Wittig dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1987: Georg Wittig dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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||1998: Robert Joseph Huebner dies ... virologist whose theory that certain genes, which he called oncogenes, are involved in cancer focused researchers' attention on finding them. His investigations paved the way for the discovery of viral causes of cancers and several other serious diseases and for the development of a number of vaccines and treatments. Pic: http://www.edubilla.com/award/national-medal-of-science/robert-huebner/ | ||1998: Robert Joseph Huebner dies ... virologist whose theory that certain genes, which he called oncogenes, are involved in cancer focused researchers' attention on finding them. His investigations paved the way for the discovery of viral causes of cancers and several other serious diseases and for the development of a number of vaccines and treatments. Pic: http://www.edubilla.com/award/national-medal-of-science/robert-huebner/ | ||
||2011: Patrick C. Fischer dies ... computer scientist and academic ... noted researcher in computational complexity theory and database theory, and a target of the Unabomber. Pic search | ||2011: Patrick C. Fischer dies ... computer scientist and academic ... noted researcher in computational complexity theory and database theory, and a target of the Unabomber. Pic search. | ||
||2012: Krzysztof Wilmanski dies ... physicist and academic ... worked in the fields of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics. Pic. | ||2012: Krzysztof Wilmanski dies ... physicist and academic ... worked in the fields of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics. Pic. | ||
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1346: Hundred Years' War: The military supremacy of the English longbow over the French combination of crossbow and armored knights is established at the Battle of Crécy.
1713: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor Denis Papin dies. He invented the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.
1728: Polymath Johann Heinrich Lambert born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, physics (particularly optics), philosophy, astronomy, and map projections.
1735: Leonhard Euler presents his solution to the Königsberg bridge problem – whether it was possible to find a route crossing each of the seven bridges of the city of Königsberg once and only once – in a lecture to his colleagues at the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.
1743: Chemist and biologist Antoine Lavoisier born. He will have a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.
1795: Occultist and explorer Alessandro Cagliostro dies. He was a glamorous figure associated with the royal courts of Europe where he pursued psychic healing, alchemy, and scrying.
1896: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels sells for ninety thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1900: Biochemist Hedley Ralph Marston born. Marston's research into fallout from the British nuclear tests at Maralinga will prove the existence of significant radiation hazards at many of the Maralinga sites long after the tests.
1918: Physicist and mathematician Katherine Johnson born. Johnson will compute orbital mechanics as a NASA employee which will be critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights; she will also pioneer the use of computers to perform these tasks.
1919: Physicist, chemist, and criminal investigator Marie Curie discovers a Gnomon algorithm function which detects and prevents Extract of Radium outbreaks.
1930: Philo Farnsworth is granted a ptent (U.S. 1,773,980) for his television system . This is his first patent, with a description of his image dissector tube, and his most important contribution to the development of television.
1974: Pilot and explorer Charles Lindbergh dies. At age 25 in 1927 he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by making his Orteig Prize–winning nonstop flight from Long Island, New York, to Paris.
1995: Writer and peace activist John Brunner dies.
2018: Blue Foliage 2 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
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