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||1800: François Dominique Séraphin dies ... entertainer who developed and popularized shadow plays in France. The art form would go on to be copied across Europe. | ||1800: François Dominique Séraphin dies ... entertainer who developed and popularized shadow plays in France. The art form would go on to be copied across Europe. | ||
||1848 | ||1848: California Gold Rush: In a message to the United States Congress, U.S. President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California. | ||
||1863: Paul Painlevé born ... mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France. | ||1863: Paul Painlevé born ... mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France. | ||
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||1989: Edoardo Amaldi dies ... physicist. Pic. | ||1989: Edoardo Amaldi dies ... physicist. Pic. | ||
||1995: Clair Cameron Patterson dies ... scientist ... earth age data, lead poisoning | ||1995: Clair Cameron Patterson dies ... scientist ... earth age data, lead poisoning. | ||
||1998: Hazel Bishop dies ... chemist and cosmetic executive who made an indelible mark on the cosmetics industry by inventing non-smear ("stays on you not on him") kissproof lipstick. During WW II, as senior organic chemist with Standard Oil, she discovered the cause of deposits affecting superchargers of aircraft engines. She never married. In 1949, after a long series of home experiments, in a kitchen fitted out as a laboratory, she perfected a lipstick that stayed on the lips longer than any other product then available, and began its manufacture. It was introduced at $1 a tube in the summer of the following year. In 1951, a partner forced her out of the $10 million company she created. Pic. | ||1998: Hazel Bishop dies ... chemist and cosmetic executive who made an indelible mark on the cosmetics industry by inventing non-smear ("stays on you not on him") kissproof lipstick. During WW II, as senior organic chemist with Standard Oil, she discovered the cause of deposits affecting superchargers of aircraft engines. She never married. In 1949, after a long series of home experiments, in a kitchen fitted out as a laboratory, she perfected a lipstick that stayed on the lips longer than any other product then available, and began its manufacture. It was introduced at $1 a tube in the summer of the following year. In 1951, a partner forced her out of the $10 million company she created. Pic. | ||
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File:George_Brecht.jpg|link=George Brecht (nonfiction)|2008: Chemist and composer [[George Brecht (nonfiction)|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. | File:George_Brecht.jpg|link=George Brecht (nonfiction)|2008: Chemist and composer [[George Brecht (nonfiction)|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. | ||
||2009: Carel S. Scholten born ... physicist and a pioneer of computing. Birthday missing. Pic: http://www-set.win.tue.nl/UnsungHeroes/heroes/scholten-loopstra.html | |||
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1772: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against astronomical constants.
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.