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||1921: Bernard d'Espagnat born ... theoretical physicist, philosopher of science, and author, best known for his work on the nature of reality. Pic: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16769-concept-of-hypercosmic-god-wins-templeton-prize/ | ||1921: Bernard d'Espagnat born ... theoretical physicist, philosopher of science, and author, best known for his work on the nature of reality. Pic: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16769-concept-of-hypercosmic-god-wins-templeton-prize/ | ||
||1927: Heinrich-Wolfgang Leopoldt born ... mathematician, who worked on algebraic number theory ... Leopoldt's conjecture Pic. | |||
||1932: The first experimental television program broadcast from the BBC, London. | ||1932: The first experimental television program broadcast from the BBC, London. | ||
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1647: Physicist, mathematician, and inventor Denis Papin born. He will invent the steam digester, the forerunner of the pressure cooker and of the steam engine.
1854: Poet Jan Kochanowski dies. He established poetic patterns which would become integral to the Polish literary language.
1919: Theoretical physicist and crime-fighter Johannes Diderik van der Waals publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants based on the states of gases and liquids.
1920: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury born. The New York Times will call Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
1943: Signed first edition of Janet Beta at ENIAC traded for freshly minted 1943 Eleanor Roosevelt dime.
1974: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski dies.