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||1989: Physicist and chemical engineer Richard Collins Lord dies ... a pioneer in the use of infrared radiation for the study of molecular structure and is widely recognized for contributions made to the interpretation of the infrared spectra of molecules in terms of their vibrational motion, and also to our understanding of the cohesion of molecule by means of hydrogen bonding. His studies of the laser Raman spectroscopy of proteins and nucleic acids opened a new field of research. Pic: http://web.mit.edu/spectroscopy/events/lord.html | ||1989: Physicist and chemical engineer Richard Collins Lord dies ... a pioneer in the use of infrared radiation for the study of molecular structure and is widely recognized for contributions made to the interpretation of the infrared spectra of molecules in terms of their vibrational motion, and also to our understanding of the cohesion of molecule by means of hydrogen bonding. His studies of the laser Raman spectroscopy of proteins and nucleic acids opened a new field of research. Pic: http://web.mit.edu/spectroscopy/events/lord.html | ||
||2001: Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr. dies ... physicist and academic. Pic: http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/physics/walker_arthurbc.html | ||2001: Arthur B. C. Walker, Jr. dies ... physicist and academic ... solar physicist and a pioneer of EUV/XUV optics. He is most noted for having developed normal incidence multilayer XUV telescopes to photograph the solar corona. Pic: http://www.math.buffalo.edu/mad/physics/walker_arthurbc.html | ||
||2005: Louis Leithold dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: http://chalkboardchampions.org/education/mathematics-teacher-louis-leithold-revolutionized-the-teaching-of-calculus/ | ||2005: Louis Leithold dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic: http://chalkboardchampions.org/education/mathematics-teacher-louis-leithold-revolutionized-the-teaching-of-calculus/ | ||
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1667: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot born. He will invent the figure of John Bull.
1756: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse constructs an exceptionally accurate orrery, which he will later use to create an early form of time crystals (nonfiction).
1854: Mathematician, physicist, and engineer Henri Poincaré born. He will make many original fundamental contributions to pure and applied mathematics, mathematical physics, and celestial mechanics.
1892: Mathematicians John Havelock and Henri Poincaré co-publish a pioneering paper on applications of Gnomon algorithm functions to the early detection of emergent catastrophic events, forecasting the Chernobyl disaster to within 98.37% accuracy.
1974: Watergate scandal: United States President Richard Nixon announces the release of edited transcripts of White House tape recordings relating to the scandal.
1985: Asclepius Myrmidon discovers an unlicensed halting problem "which will almost certainly result in a major radiation release event within a year."
1986: Chernobyl disaster: American and European spy satellites capture the ruins of the 4th Reactor at the Chernobyl Power Plant.
1987: Steganographic analysis of The Shovel unexptedly reveals "at least a terabyte" of encrypted data, apparently a transdimensional contract requiring Egon Rhodomunde and Baron Zersetzung to "blow up a nuclear power plant, and this time do it right".
2018: The two creatures depicted in Two Creatures 3 officially petition the United Nations for political asylum.