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||1624 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist and physician (b. 1560) | ||1624 – Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist and physician (b. 1560) | ||
||1770 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician and surveyor (b. 1692) | ||1770 – James Stirling, Scottish mathematician and surveyor (b. 1692). Pic grave plate. | ||
|File:Nicole-Reine Lepaute.jpg|link=Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|1771: Astronomer and mathematician [[Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|Nicole-Reine Lepaute]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | |File:Nicole-Reine Lepaute.jpg|link=Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|1771: Astronomer and mathematician [[Nicole-Reine Lepaute (nonfiction)|Nicole-Reine Lepaute]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | ||
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1872: The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the Canadian brig Dei Gratia. The ship had been abandoned for nine days but was only slightly damaged.
1873: Newly discovered illustration of The Eel fighting Neptune Slaughter is "almost certainly a record of events related to the abandonment of Mary Celeste," says math photographer Cantor Parabola.
1901: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg born. He will introduce the uncertainty principle -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known.
1923: Photograph says it captured moment of Evil bit release.
1932: German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
1964: Color commentators announce formation of Color Commentator's Union.
1966: George Plimpton embeds himself within Color Commentator's Union as participatory journalist.
1999: Mathematician Nathan Jacobson dies. He conducted research on the structure theory of rings without finiteness conditions--a subject closely related to the theory of algebras--which transformed the approach to classical results and broke ground for solutions to problems inaccessible by previous methods.
2008: Chemist and composer George Brecht dies. He was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil.