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||1620: Jean Picard born ... priest and astronomer. Pic: sundial.
||1620: Jean Picard born ... priest and astronomer. Pic: sundial.
File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1766: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to forecast the theoretical existence of the dwarf planet Ceres.
|File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1800: Engineer, inventor, and [[APTO]] agent [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] ... TO DO.


File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] born.  He will be an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.  
File:Henri Victor Regnault 1860s.jpg|link=Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|1810: Chemist and physicist [[Henri Victor Regnault (nonfiction)|Henri Victor Regnault]] born.  He will be an early thermodynamicist, best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases, and for mentoring William Thomson in the late 1840s.  
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||1907: John Henry Manley born ... physicist who worked with J. Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley before becoming a group leader during the Manhattan Project. Pic.
||1907: John Henry Manley born ... physicist who worked with J. Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley before becoming a group leader during the Manhattan Project. Pic.
File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1910: Physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within giant novelty Fleming tube.


File:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|1911: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory [[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] born. He will coin the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".
File:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|1911: Professor of English and philosopher of communication theory [[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] born. He will coin the expressions "the medium is the message" and "global village".
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||2016: Roger Godement dies ... mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis as well as his expository books. Pic.
||2016: Roger Godement dies ... mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis as well as his expository books. Pic.
File:Ultravore.jpg|link=Ultravore|2016: Synthetic organism [[Ultravore]] begins consuming radioactive chemical waste at the [[Hanford Site (nonfiction)|Hanford Site]].


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