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||1974: Alexander Dinghas dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1974: Alexander Dinghas dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1975: Percy Lavon Julian dies ... chemist and academic ... a pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants. He was the first to synthesize the natural product physostigmine, plus a pioneer in the industrial large-scale chemical synthesis of the human hormones progesterone and testosterone from plant sterols such as stigmasterol and sitosterol. His work laid the foundation for the steroid drug industry's production of cortisone, other corticosteroids, and birth control pills. Pic. | |||
||1981: The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it. | ||1981: The U.S. Navy nuclear submarine USS George Washington accidentally collides with the Nissho Maru, a Japanese cargo ship, sinking it. | ||
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1860: On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
1881: Mathematician Karl Mikhailovich Peterson dies. He discovered equations which were subsequently named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space.
1882: Large herd of Flying bison (Bison pterobonasus) migrates from Periphery to New Minneapolis, Canada.
1912: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg born. He will share the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.
1914: Mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce dies. He is remembered as "the father of pragmatism".
1932: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use set theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2016: Chromatographic analysis of Violet Spiral reveals "at least two, probably three" previously unknown shades of violet.
2016: Theoretical physicist, theoretical chemist, and Nobel laureate Walter Kohn dies. He developed density functional theory, which makes it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density.
2019: The Great Nerd Giveaway begins. By the end of Minicon 54, hundreds of nerd items will have found new homes, with lots of fun generated in the process.