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||1865: Heinrich Lenz dies ... physicist and academic. | ||1865: Heinrich Lenz dies ... physicist and academic. | ||
||1873: Egon Schweidler | ||1873: Egon Schweidler born ... physicist. He pointed out (in 1899) the statistical nature of the radioactive decay or the magnetic deflection of beta radiation as fast electrons. His predicted variations (1905) of the ionization radiation formed in the end a large number of theoretical and experimental investigations. | ||
||1883: Edith Clarke born ... electrical engineer. | ||1883: Edith Clarke born ... electrical engineer. She specialized in electrical power system analysis and wrote ''Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems''. Pic. | ||
||1885: Hardy Cross born ... structural engineer and the developer of the moment distribution method for structural analysis of statically indeterminate structures. The method was in general use from c. 1935 until c. 1960 when it was gradually superseded by other methods. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hardy+Cross | |||
||1891: Sofia Kovalevskaya dies ... mathematician and physicist (b. 1850) ... made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was the first major Russian female mathematician and a pioneer for women in mathematics around the world. | ||1891: Sofia Kovalevskaya dies ... mathematician and physicist (b. 1850) ... made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. She was the first major Russian female mathematician and a pioneer for women in mathematics around the world. | ||
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1575: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Giovanni Antonio Magini promotes the geocentric system of the world, failing to understand the nature of crimes against astronomical constants.
1630: Mathematician and alleged time-traveller René Descartes publishes new theory of mind and reason which anticipates modern Gnomon algorithm techniques for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer David Brewster dies.
1900: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen dies. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
1902: Physicist and academic Walter Houser Brattain born. He will share the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 "for research on semiconductors and the discovery of the transistor effect."
1912: Surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister dies. He pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.
1952: Inventor Edward Hugh Hebern dies. He was a pioneer of rotor encryption machines.
1957: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, performs new work based on Gnomon algorithm functions.
1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
1967: New isotope of Plutonium discovered, revealing secret history of the Manhattan Project.
2017: Green City Skyline voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.