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||1717 | ||1717: Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier born ... botanist and physicist. | ||
||Alexis Bouvard | ||1767: Alexis Bouvard born ... astronomer. He is particularly noted for his careful observations of the irregularities in the motion of Uranus and his hypothesis of the existence of an eighth planet in the solar system. Pic. | ||
||Augustus De Morgan | ||1806: Augustus De Morgan born ... mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous. | ||
||1829 – James Smithson, English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1765) | ||1829 – James Smithson, English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1765) | ||
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File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge. | File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge. | ||
||1952 | ||1952: Max Dehn dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||
||1954 | ||1954: The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow. | ||
| | ||1973: Nixon Enemies List: The list became public knowledge on June 27, 1973, when Dean mentioned during hearings with the Senate Watergate Committee that a list existed containing those whom the president did not like. | ||
File:G I Taylor.jpg|link=G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|1975: Mathematician and physicist [[G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|G. I. Taylor]] dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory. | File:G I Taylor.jpg|link=G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|1975: Mathematician and physicist [[G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|G. I. Taylor]] dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory. | ||
||Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger | ||1980: Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger dies ... German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Center. Pic. | ||
||1982 | ||1982: Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4. | ||
||1994 | ||1994: Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured. | ||
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2010: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)]]. | File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2010: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)]]. | ||
||2013 | ||2013: NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun. | ||
||2018: Hayabusa2 arrival at target asteroid 162173 Ryugu ... an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese space agency, JAXA. It follows on from Hayabusa and addresses weak points identified in that mission. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and arrived at near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu in June 2018. It is intended to survey the asteroid for a year and a half, depart in December 2019, and return to Earth in December 2020. Hayabusa2 arrived at the target asteroid 162173 Ryugu (formerly designated 1999 JU3) on 27 June 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2 | ||2018: Hayabusa2 arrival at target asteroid 162173 Ryugu ... an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese space agency, JAXA. It follows on from Hayabusa and addresses weak points identified in that mission. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and arrived at near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu in June 2018. It is intended to survey the asteroid for a year and a half, depart in December 2019, and return to Earth in December 2020. Hayabusa2 arrived at the target asteroid 162173 Ryugu (formerly designated 1999 JU3) on 27 June 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2 | ||
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1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
1880: Mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt dies. He contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1975: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
2010: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says Niles Cartouchian (1900s).