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||John Louis Emil Dreyer (b. February 13, 1852) was a Danish-Irish astronomer. | ||John Louis Emil Dreyer (b. February 13, 1852) was a Danish-Irish astronomer. | ||
||Dugald Caleb Jackson (b. February 13, 1865) was an American electrical engineer. He received the IEEE Edison Medal for "outstanding and inspiring leadership in engineering education and in the field of generation and distribution of electric power". | |||
||1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect. | ||1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect. | ||
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1787: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich dies. He was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
1801: inventor, engineer, and crime-fighter James Watt adapts steam engine to perform numerical computation using Gnomon algorithm techniques.
1805: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet born. He will important make contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet will be one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.
1910: Physicist and inventor William Shockley born. He will share the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the point-contact transistor.
1955: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords, revealing new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1956: Mathematician and philosopher Jan Łukasiewicz dies. He thought innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle.
1997: Computer scientist Tony Hoare invents new class of Gnomon algorithm based on Leap Year algorithms.