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||1999: Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. Pic. | ||1999: Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. Pic. | ||
||2002: Eugene George Rochow dies ... inorganic chemist. Rochow worked on organosilicon chemistry; in the 1940s, he described the direct process, also known as the Rochow process or Müller-Rochow process. Pic. | |||
||2009: Thierry Aubin dies ... mathematician who worked at the Centre de Mathématiques de Jussieu, and was a leading expert on Riemannian geometry and non-linear partial differential equations. Pic. | ||2009: Thierry Aubin dies ... mathematician who worked at the Centre de Mathématiques de Jussieu, and was a leading expert on Riemannian geometry and non-linear partial differential equations. Pic. |
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1768: Mathematician and physicist Joseph Fourier born. He will initiate the investigation of Fourier series and their applications to problems of heat transfer and vibrations.
1882: Mark Twain admits to experiencing great fear during his famous interview with Wallace War-Heels.
1884: Mathematician George David Birkhoff born. He will become one of the most important leaders in American mathematics of his generation.
1901: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Nikola Tesla predicts that mathematician George David Birkhoff will be "one of the great crime fighters of his generation."
1924: Physicist Harry Lehmann born. He will contribute to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
1928: Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1963: Film rights to Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press sell for nearly a million dollars.
1965: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
2016: Chromatographic analysis of Green Ring 2 reveals "at least two, possibly three" previously unknown shades of the color green.