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||1532L Wilhelm Xylander born ... classical scholar and humanist. | ||1532L Wilhelm Xylander born ... classical scholar and humanist. | ||
||1780: Mary Somerville born ... mathematician, astronomer, and author | ||1780: Mary Somerville born ... mathematician, astronomer, and author. | ||
File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|1791: Polymath [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]] born. He will construct mechanical computers which anticipate the concept of programmable digital computers. | File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|1791: Polymath [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]] born. He will construct mechanical computers which anticipate the concept of programmable digital computers. | ||
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||2010: Albert Ghiorso dies ... nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table. | ||2010: Albert Ghiorso dies ... nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table. | ||
||2012: Paul Trevier Bateman dies ... number theorist, known for formulating the Bateman–Horn conjecture on the density of prime number values generated by systems of polynomials and the New Mersenne conjecture relating the occurrences of Mersenne primes and Wagstaff primes. Pic: http://celebratio.org/Bateman_PT/cover/323/ | |||
File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|2016: Survey data reveals widespread [[Scrimshaw abuse|Scrimshaw binging]] the day after Christmas. | File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|2016: Survey data reveals widespread [[Scrimshaw abuse|Scrimshaw binging]] the day after Christmas. | ||
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1791: Polymath Charles Babbage born. He will construct mechanical computers which anticipate the concept of programmable digital computers.
1896: Physician and physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond dies. He discovered nerve action potential, and developed experimental electrophysiology.
1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1899: Engineer and crime-fighter Gustave Eiffel uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
2006: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal dies. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.
2016: Survey data reveals widespread Scrimshaw binging the day after Christmas.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Blue Foliage unexpectedly reveals "at least five kilobytes" of encrypted data.