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||1919: Mathematician [[Adolf Hurwitz (nonfiction)|Adolf Hurwitz]] died. He worked on algebra, analysis, geometry and number theory. Pic. | ||1919: Mathematician [[Adolf Hurwitz (nonfiction)|Adolf Hurwitz]] died. He worked on algebra, analysis, geometry and number theory. Pic. | ||
||1922: Lawrence Christian Biedenharn, Jr. born ... theoretical nuclear physicist and mathematical physicist, a leading expert on applications of Lie group theory to physics. Biedenharn studied at MIT with an interruption in World War II from 1942 to 1946 as a lieutenant in the Signal Corps in the Pacific theater, where in 1946 he was stationed in Tokyo for a year as a radio officer. He received his bachelor's degree in absentia from MIT. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lawrence+Biedenharn | |||
||1924: Lucien Marie Le Cam born ... mathematician and statistician. Pic. | ||1924: Lucien Marie Le Cam born ... mathematician and statistician. 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.