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File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi engraving.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1764: Mathematician [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi engraving.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1764: Mathematician [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1798 | ||1798: Thomas Sandby dies ... cartographer, painter, and architect. | ||
||1814 | ||1814: Gabriel Auguste Daubrée born ... geologist and engineer. | ||
||1864 | ||1864: Walther Nernst born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1866 | ||1866: Alexander von Nordmann dies ... biologist and paleontologist. | ||
||1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist and neurophysiologist (b. 1811) | ||1868 – Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist and neurophysiologist (b. 1811) | ||
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||1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980) | ||1911 – William Howard Stein, American chemist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980) | ||
||Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov | ||1928: Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov born ... theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics, with Vitaly Ginzburg and Anthony James Leggett, for theories about how matter can behave at extremely low temperatures. Pic. | ||
||1935 | ||1935: Charles Sheffield born ... mathematician, physicist, and author. | ||
|| | ||1941: Alfred Pringsheim dies ... mathematician and patron of the arts. He will study real and complex functions, following the power-series-approach of the Weierstrass school. Pringsheim published numerous works on the subject of complex analysis, with a focus on the summability theory of infinite series and the boundary behavior of analytic functions. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1943: The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein murdered in Auschwitz. | ||
||1959 | ||1944: The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died. | ||
||1959: Bobbie Vaile born ... astrophysicist and astronomer. | |||
||1960: Walter Baade dies, German astronomer and author. He will discover that there are two types of Cepheid variable stars. Using this discovery he recalculated the size of the known universe, doubling the previous calculation made by Hubble in 1929. | ||1960: Walter Baade dies, German astronomer and author. He will discover that there are two types of Cepheid variable stars. Using this discovery he recalculated the size of the known universe, doubling the previous calculation made by Hubble in 1929. |
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1593: Physician and archaeologist Michele Mercati dies. He was one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
1671: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli dies. He experimented with pendulums and falling bodies, discussed arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduced the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
1764: Mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1907: Nuclear physicist J. Hans D. Jensen born. He will share half of the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics with Maria Goeppert-Mayer for their proposal of the nuclear shell model.
1997: An unmanned Progress spacecraft collides with the Russian space station Mir.
2011: Computer scientist, mathematician, and engineer Annie Easley dies. She was a leading member of the team which develops software for the Centaur rocket stage, and one of the first African-Americans to work as a computer scientist at NASA.
2017: New computational analysis of The Eel Time-Surfing reveals previously unknown cache of steganographic data.