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||1840: Per Teodor Cleve born ... chemist, biologist, mineralogist, oceanographer, and professor. He discovered the chemical elements holmium and thulium and helped isolate helium from the uranium ore cleveite. Pic. | ||1840: Per Teodor Cleve born ... chemist, biologist, mineralogist, oceanographer, and professor. He discovered the chemical elements holmium and thulium and helped isolate helium from the uranium ore cleveite. Pic. | ||
||1842: Agnes Mary Clerke born ... astronomer and author. | ||1842: Agnes Mary Clerke born ... astronomer and author. Pic. | ||
||1861: Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America. | ||1861: Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America. | ||
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||1865: Heinrich Lenz dies ... physicist and academic. | ||1865: Heinrich Lenz dies ... physicist and academic. | ||
||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. | ||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. Pic. | ||
||1878: Claude Bernard dies ... physiologist and academic. Bernard was among the first to suggest the use of blind experiments to ensure the objectivity of scientific observations. He originated the term ''milieu intérieur'', and the associated concept of homeostasis. Pic. | |||
||1883: Edith Clarke born ... electrical engineer. She specialized in electrical power system analysis and wrote ''Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems''. Pic. | ||1883: Edith Clarke born ... electrical engineer. She specialized in electrical power system analysis and wrote ''Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems''. Pic. | ||
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||1944: E. M. Antoniadi dies ... astronomer and chess player. | ||1944: E. M. Antoniadi dies ... astronomer and chess player. | ||
||1948: Egon Schweidler, dies ... 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. | ||1948: Egon Schweidler, dies ... 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. Pic. | ||
||1952: Henry Drysdale Dakin dies ... chemist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=henry+drysdale+dakin | ||1952: Henry Drysdale Dakin dies ... chemist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=henry+drysdale+dakin | ||
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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.