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||1903: Kazimierz Kordylewski born ... was a Polish astronomer. In 1956 he claimed the discovery of the Kordylewski clouds which are believed to be large transient concentrations of dust at the Trojan points of the Earth-Moon system. The existence of the clouds is still contested. Pic. | ||1903: Kazimierz Kordylewski born ... was a Polish astronomer. In 1956 he claimed the discovery of the Kordylewski clouds which are believed to be large transient concentrations of dust at the Trojan points of the Earth-Moon system. The existence of the clouds is still contested. Pic. | ||
||1909: Ronald Richter born ... scientist who became infamous in connection with the Argentine Huemul Project and the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA). The project was intended to generate energy from nuclear fusion. Pic. | |||
||1910: Cahit Arf born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1910: Cahit Arf born ... mathematician and academic. |
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1708: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus dies. He invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation.
1851: Famed gem detective and crime-fighter Niles Cartouchian (1900s) accuses rival gem detective Egon Rhodomunde of trafficking in illegal time crystals.
1889: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1940: Mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.
1965: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange dies.
2002: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde accuses actor-crytographer Niles Cartouchian of trafficking in illegal time crystals.
2016: Signed first edition of Spiral Rings 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.