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File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1895: While experimenting with electricity, [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] discovers the X-ray. | File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1895: While experimenting with electricity, [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] discovers the X-ray. | ||
||1900: Albert F. Frey-Wyssling born ... botanist and pioneer of submicroscopic morphology who helped to initiate the study later known as molecular biology. This scientific discipline deals with the molecular basis of living processes. Molecular biology now involves both biochemistry and biophysics. Its growth since the 1930s has been made possible by the development of such techniques as chromatography, electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction, which have revealed the structures of biologically important molecules, such as DNA, RNA, and enzymes. Heredity, and the development, organization, and function of living cells, all depend on the physical and chemical properties of the molecules involved. Pic. | |||
||1904: William Leonard Edge born ... mathematician most known for his work in finite geometry. In the 1950s Edge began to explore vector spaces over Galois fields as an entry to finite geometry. Points and lines of finite projective geometry arise as lines and planes in these spaces, and the projectivities of these spaces provide representation of some finite groups. Pic: http://hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk/tiki/William+Edge | ||1904: William Leonard Edge born ... mathematician most known for his work in finite geometry. In the 1950s Edge began to explore vector spaces over Galois fields as an entry to finite geometry. Points and lines of finite projective geometry arise as lines and planes in these spaces, and the projectivities of these spaces provide representation of some finite groups. Pic: http://hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk/tiki/William+Edge | ||
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1703: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1807: Engineer, hydrographer, and politician Pierre-Alexandre-Laurent Forfait dies. He designed and oversaw the building of ships, making structural improvements and developing techniques to improve the disposition of cargo in ships' holds.
1839: Birth of Ivan Goremykin heralds new age of Extreme Moustaches.
1848: Mathematician, logician, and philosopher Gottlob Frege born. Though will be largely ignored during his lifetime, his work will influence later generations of logicians and philosophers.
1895: While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1969: Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher dies. He performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.
1974: Green Ring tells Dick Cavett a funny story about Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography.