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||1965 – Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) | ||1965 – Edward Victor Appleton, English-Scottish physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892) | ||
||Frederick Vinton Hunt (d. April 21, 1972) was an inventor, a scientist and a professor at Harvard University who worked in the field of acoustic engineering. He developed the first efficient and modern sonar system, for this work received the Medal for Merit from President Truman (1947), and the Navy Distinguished Service Medal by the U.S. Navy in 1970. Pic. | |||
||1980 – Alexander Oparin, Russian biochemist and academic (b. 1894) | ||1980 – Alexander Oparin, Russian biochemist and academic (b. 1894) | ||
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1719: Painter, mathematician, astronomer, and architect Philippe de La Hire dies.
1774: Physicist, astronomer, and mathematician Jean-Baptiste Biot born. He will establish the reality of meteorites, make an early balloon flight, and study the polarization of light.
1793: American captain and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which improved maritime navigation techniques.
1822: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin born. He will invent and patent rolled celluloid photographic film.
1823: Polymath and crime-fighter Francis Galton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on psychometrics which predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1825: Mathematician Johann Friedrich Pfaff dies. He worked on partial differential equations of the first order Pfaffian systems, as they are now called, which became part of the theory of differential forms.
1882: Physicist and academic Percy Williams Bridgman born. He will win the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures.
1883: Twain reminisces about Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels, calls it "the interview of a lifetime, and a singular bauble in the treasure-chest of my heart."
1910: Writer, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer Mark Twain dies.
1910: Mathematician Richard Courant demonostrates that the existence of a physical solution does not obviate proof of crimes against mathematical constants.