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||1898: John "Jack" Roland Redman born ... admiral in the United States Navy. A naval communications officer, he played key roles in signals intelligence during World War II in Washington, D.C., and on the staff of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.
||1898: John "Jack" Roland Redman born ... admiral in the United States Navy. A naval communications officer, he played key roles in signals intelligence during World War II in Washington, D.C., and on the staff of Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.
||1903: Mathematician and academic Norman Macleod Ferrers dies. In 1871 he first suggested to extend the equations of motion with nonholonomic constraints.[4] His another treatise on "Spherical Harmonics," published in 1877, presented many original features. In 1881 he studied Kelvin's investigation of the law of distribution of electricity in equilibrium on an uninfluenced spherical bowl and made the addition of finding the potential at any point of space in zonal harmonics. Pic.


||1911: Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop born ... physicist and humanitarian. Pic.
||1911: Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop born ... physicist and humanitarian. Pic.

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