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||1441: Roger Bolingbroke, English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer. No | ||1441: Roger Bolingbroke, English cleric, astronomer, astrologer, magister and alleged necromancer. No DOB. Pic search unlikely: https://www.google.com/search?q=roger+bolingbroke | ||
||1571: Hippolytus Guarinonius born ... physician and polymath. Pic. | ||1571: Hippolytus Guarinonius born ... physician and polymath. Pic. | ||
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||1832: Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ... Finnish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists. Pic. | ||1832: Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ... Finnish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists. Pic. | ||
||1833: Hugh Ronalds dies ... nurseryman who cultivated and documented 300 varieties of apples. Pic search tombstone: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hugh+Ronalds | |||
||1839: August Kundt born ... physicist and educator. Pic. | ||1839: August Kundt born ... physicist and educator. Pic. | ||
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||1889: Attilio Palatini dies ... mathematician born in Treviso. He worked in absolute differential calculus and in general relativity. Within this latter subject he gave a sound generalization of the variational principle. Pic. | ||1889: Attilio Palatini dies ... mathematician born in Treviso. He worked in absolute differential calculus and in general relativity. Within this latter subject he gave a sound generalization of the variational principle. Pic. | ||
||1897: Patrick Blackett born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1897: Patrick Blackett born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... known for his work on cloud chambers, cosmic rays, and paleomagnetism, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1948.[5] In 1925 he became the first person to prove that radioactivity could cause the nuclear transmutation of one chemical element to another. Pic. | ||
||1900: George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky born ... physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor. Pic. | ||1900: George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky born ... physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor. Pic. | ||
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1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.
1831: Physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.
1865: Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in The Saturday Press.
1866: Physicist and crime-fighter Georg Hermann Quincke uses the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1959: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.
1962: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
2013: NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the MAVEN probe to Mars.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Cowries reveals "at least three hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.