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||Meghnad Saha FRS (d. 16 February 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha ionization equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars. | ||Meghnad Saha FRS (d. 16 February 1956) was an Indian astrophysicist best known for his development of the Saha ionization equation, used to describe chemical and physical conditions in stars. | ||
||Charles John Read (b. 16 February 1958) was a British mathematician known for his work in functional analysis. In operator theory, he is best known for his work in the 1980s on the invariant subspace problem, where he constructed operators with only trivial invariant subspaces on particular Banach spaces Pic. | |||
File:The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter.jpg|link=The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|1960: Mathematician and crime-fighter (left) stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] (right) from infiltrating [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the U.S. Navy submarine circumnavigation of the globe. | File:The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter.jpg|link=The Eel Fighting Neptune Slaughter|1960: Mathematician and crime-fighter (left) stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] (right) from infiltrating [[Operation Sandblast (nonfiction)|Operation Sandblast]], the U.S. Navy submarine circumnavigation of the globe. | ||
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1531: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler dies.
1610: Regicide François Ravaillac drinks Extract of Radium for the first time.
1698: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer born. He will be known as "the father of naval architecture".
1822: Statistician, progressive, polymath, sociologist, psychologist, anthropologist, eugenicist, tropical explorer, geographer, inventor, meteorologist, proto-geneticist, and psychometrician Francis Galton born.
1922: Mathematician Hing Tong born. He will provide the original proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
1960: Mathematician and crime-fighter (left) stops aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter (right) from infiltrating Operation Sandblast, the U.S. Navy submarine circumnavigation of the globe.
1960: The U.S. Navy submarine USS Triton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
1979: Mathematician and crime-fighter Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use combinatorial number logic to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.