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||1908: Edoardo Amaldi born ... physicist. Pic. | ||1908: Edoardo Amaldi born ... physicist. Pic. | ||
||1909: Louis Bouveault dies ... chemist ... known for the Bouveault aldehyde synthesis and the Bouveault–Blanc reduction. Pic search scanty: https://www.google.com/search?q=Louis+Bouveault | |||
||1914: Nicanor Parra born ... physicist, mathematician, and poet. Parra was a professor of theoretical physics in Santiago, and read his poetry in England, France, Russia, Mexico, Cuba, and the United States; his poetic language renounced the refinement of most Latin American literature and adopted a more colloquial tone. Pic. | ||1914: Nicanor Parra born ... physicist, mathematician, and poet. Parra was a professor of theoretical physics in Santiago, and read his poetry in England, France, Russia, Mexico, Cuba, and the United States; his poetic language renounced the refinement of most Latin American literature and adopted a more colloquial tone. Pic. | ||
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||1922: Denys Wilkinson born ... physicist and academic. Wilkinson's work in nuclear physics included investigation of the properties of nuclei with low numbers of nucleons. He was amongst the first to experimentally test rules relating to isospin. He also applied concepts from physics to the study of bird navigation. He is also notable for the invention of the Wilkinson Analog-to-Digital Converter, to support his experimental work. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Denys+Wilkinson | ||1922: Denys Wilkinson born ... physicist and academic. Wilkinson's work in nuclear physics included investigation of the properties of nuclei with low numbers of nucleons. He was amongst the first to experimentally test rules relating to isospin. He also applied concepts from physics to the study of bird navigation. He is also notable for the invention of the Wilkinson Analog-to-Digital Converter, to support his experimental work. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Denys+Wilkinson | ||
||1923: Peter Glaser born ... scientist and engineer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=peter+glaser | |||
||1945: Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War. | ||1945: Cold War: Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet Union embassy clerk, defects to Canada, exposing Soviet espionage in North America, signalling the beginning of the Cold War. | ||
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File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1977: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] spacecraft launches. It will visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon Titan. | File:Voyager spacecraft diagram.png|link=Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|1977: [[Voyager 1 (nonfiction)|Voyager 1]] spacecraft launches. It will visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon Titan. | ||
||1982: Edwin | ||1982: Edwin F. Beckenbach dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1989: John Barkley Rosser Sr. (December 6, 1907 – September 5, 1989) was an American logician, a student of Alonzo Church, and known for his part in the Church–Rosser theorem, in lambda calculus. In 1936, he proved Rosser's trick, a stronger version of Gödel's first incompleteness theorem, showing that the requirement for ω-consistency may be weakened to consistency. Pic: ||1907: John Barkley Rosser Sr. born ... logician. Pic: http://sites.jmu.edu/jmuresearch/tag/j-barkley-rosser/ | ||1989: John Barkley Rosser Sr. (December 6, 1907 – September 5, 1989) was an American logician, a student of Alonzo Church, and known for his part in the Church–Rosser theorem, in lambda calculus. In 1936, he proved Rosser's trick, a stronger version of Gödel's first incompleteness theorem, showing that the requirement for ω-consistency may be weakened to consistency. Pic: ||1907: John Barkley Rosser Sr. born ... logician. Pic: http://sites.jmu.edu/jmuresearch/tag/j-barkley-rosser/ | ||
||1994: Shimshon Amitsur dies ... mathematician and scholar. Pic. | ||1994: Shimshon Amitsur dies ... mathematician and scholar. Pic. | ||
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1575: Mathematician Federico Commandino born. He will gain fame for his central role as translator of works of ancient mathematicians.
1588: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to locate alleged supervillain Anarchimedes.
1677: Theologian, natural philosopher, and diplomat Henry Oldenburg dies. He was one of the foremost intelligencers of Europe of the seventeenth century, and the creator of scientific peer review.
1725: Mathematician and theorist Jean-Étienne Montucla born. His deep interest in history of mathematics will become apparent with his publication of Histoire des Mathématiques, the first part appearing in 1758.
1947: Advances in dynastic cellular automata theory reveal new members of Bernoulli family.
1948: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman dies. He made important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
1948: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1977: Voyager 1 spacecraft launches. It will visit Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's large moon Titan.
2018: Volume one of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer published.