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||2004: John Pople dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||2004: John Pople dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2006: George | ||2006: George W. Mackey dies ... mathematician. Mackey was one of the pioneer workers in the intersection of quantum logic, the theory of infinite-dimensional unitary representations of groups, the theory of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. Pic. | ||
||2013: James Bonk dies ... chemist and academic. Bonk taught chemistry courses for over 50 years, primarily at Duke University; he also wrote his own textbooks and laboratory manuals. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=james+bonk | ||2013: James Bonk dies ... chemist and academic. Bonk taught chemistry courses for over 50 years, primarily at Duke University; he also wrote his own textbooks and laboratory manuals. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=james+bonk | ||
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44 BC: Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
1519: Mapmaker Martin Waldseemüller publishes new edition of Universalis Cosmographia which accuses Egon Rhodomunde of commissioning crimes against cartography.
1612: Mathematician Johannes Kepler uses astrological forecasts to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1794: American captain and mathematician Nathaniel Bowditch publishes his landmark study of cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1897: Mathematician and academic James Joseph Sylvester dies. He made fundamental contributions to matrix theory, invariant theory, number theory, partition theory, and combinatorics.
1900: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel dies. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, later providing the mathematical basis for general relativity.
1911: Physicist and crime-fighter Heike Kamerlingh Onnes uses liquid helium to freeze supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1912: Mathematician Cesare Arzelà dies. He contributed to the theory of functions, notably his characterization of sequences of continuous functions.
1962: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton dies. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, which demonstrated the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
1970: Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 detects evidence of crimes against interstellar constants.
2016: Three Kings 3 declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.