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||1987 – Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) | ||1987 – Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) | ||
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)| | File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1989: [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] develops self-awareness, experiences irrational fear of the number thirteen. | ||
||Hans Freudenthal (d. 13 October 1990) was a German-born Dutch mathematician. He made substantial contributions to algebraic topology and also took an interest in literature, philosophy, history and mathematics education. | |||
||2003 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) | ||2003 – Bertram Brockhouse, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918) | ||
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1687: Astronomer, lens-maker, and academic Geminiano Montanari dies. He made the observation that Algol in the constellation of Perseus varies in brightness.
1773: The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.
1989: Lorenz system develops self-awareness, experiences irrational fear of the number thirteen.