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File:Jean-Baptiste Morin.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]] dies. | File:Jean-Baptiste Morin.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]] dies. | ||
||1755 – Stanisław Staszic, Polish philosopher, poet, and geologist (d. 1824) | |||
||1771 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695) | |||
||1822 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist and academic (b. 1748) | |||
||1835 – Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist and physician, founded the Italian school of criminology (d. 1909) | |||
||1855 – E. S. Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist, founded the Human Betterment Foundation (d. 1942) | |||
||1865 – American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels. | ||1865 – American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels. | ||
||1886 – Ida Barney, American astronomer, mathematician, and academic (d. 1982) | |||
||1935 – Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers. | ||1935 – Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers. | ||
File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1944: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. | File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1944: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. | ||
||1950 – Amir Aczel, Israeli-American mathematician, historian, and academic (d. 2015) | |||
||1964 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-Swiss biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863) | |||
||1971 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. | |||
||2002 – Sid Sackson, American game designer (b. 1920) | |||
||File:Galileo's Glassworks in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Virtualization of Galileo Galilei|Advances in [[Virtualization of Galileo Galilei|virtualization of Galileo]] use [[Galileo's Glassworks (nonfiction)|book]] in hydrogen bubble chamber. | ||File:Galileo's Glassworks in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Virtualization of Galileo Galilei|Advances in [[Virtualization of Galileo Galilei|virtualization of Galileo]] use [[Galileo's Glassworks (nonfiction)|book]] in hydrogen bubble chamber. | ||
Revision as of 19:15, 24 July 2017
1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin dies.
1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted.
2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.