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||Robert-Aglaé Cauchoix born ... optician and instrument maker, whose lenses played a part in the race of the great refractor telescopes in the first half of the 19th century. Pic: observatory.
||Robert-Aglaé Cauchoix born ... optician and instrument maker, whose lenses played a part in the race of the great refractor telescopes in the first half of the 19th century. Pic: observatory.
File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1863: Printer, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] patents new type of phonoautograph, which records [[crimes against mathematical constants]] as photographic images.


||1879: Felix Ehrenhaft born ... physicist who contributed to atomic physics, to the measurement of electrical charges and to the optical properties of metal colloids. He was known for his maverick and controversial style. Pic.
||1879: Felix Ehrenhaft born ... physicist who contributed to atomic physics, to the measurement of electrical charges and to the optical properties of metal colloids. He was known for his maverick and controversial style. Pic.
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||2000: George Michael Volkoff dies ... physicist and academic who helped, with J. Robert Oppenheimer, predict the existence of neutron stars before they were discovered. Pic.
||2000: George Michael Volkoff dies ... physicist and academic who helped, with J. Robert Oppenheimer, predict the existence of neutron stars before they were discovered. Pic.
Two_Creatures_2.jpg|link=Two Creatures 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Two Creatures 2 (nonfiction)|Two Creatures 2]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment unexpectedly develops spontaneous [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]].


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  • 1656: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.

    1656: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.

  • 1914: The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.

    1914: The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.

  • 1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.

    1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.

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