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||1882: Paul Koebe born. His work dealt exclusively with the complex numbers, his most important results being on the uniformization of Riemann surfaces in a series of four papers in 1907–1909. Pic. | ||1882: Paul Koebe born. His work dealt exclusively with the complex numbers, his most important results being on the uniformization of Riemann surfaces in a series of four papers in 1907–1909. Pic. | ||
||1889: Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen dies ... geologist and academic. He studied the coal-formation of Westphalia and northern Europe generally, and contributed to the theory and practice of mining and metallurgical works in Rhenish Prussia. Pic. | ||1889: Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen dies ... geologist and academic. He studied the coal-formation of Westphalia and northern Europe generally, and contributed to the theory and practice of mining and metallurgical works in Rhenish Prussia. Pic. | ||
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||1944: Aleksandr Serebrov born ... engineer and cosmonaut. Pic: postage stamp. | ||1944: Aleksandr Serebrov born ... engineer and cosmonaut. Pic: postage stamp. | ||
File:ENIAC.jpg|link=ENIAC (nonfiction)|1946: [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]], the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. | File:ENIAC.jpg|link=ENIAC (nonfiction)|1946: [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]], the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. |
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1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics."
1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to defeat the Forbidden Ratio in single combat.
1739: Mathematician, astronomer and poet Eustachio Manfredi dies. Manfredi's observations of asteroids provided early evidence, albeit unsought, of the revolution of the Earth around the Sun.
1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1946: ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
1959: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson dies. He won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
1988: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.
2011: The Stardust spacecraft flies by comet Tempel 1.