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||2000: Hermann Brück dies ... physicist and astronomer. | ||2000: Hermann Brück dies ... physicist and astronomer. | ||
||2000: Ta-You Wu dies ... physicist and academic. | ||2000: Ta-You Wu dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||2001: Fred Lasswell dies ... cartoonist. | ||2001: Fred Lasswell dies ... cartoonist. | ||
File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|2007: Mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem. | File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|2007: Mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem. | ||
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File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|2008: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] (D&D) with Dave Arneson. | File:Gary Gygax Gen Con 2007.jpg|link=Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|2008: Game designer [[Gary Gygax (nonfiction)|Gary Gygax]] dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] (D&D) with Dave Arneson. | ||
||2011: Alenush Terian dies ... astronomer and physicist. | ||2010: Meteorologist and academic Joanne Simpson dies. Simpson contributed to many areas of the atmospheric sciences, particularly in the field of tropical meteorology. She has researched hot towers, hurricanes, the trade winds, air-sea interactions, and helped develop the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). Pic. | ||
||2011: Alenush Terian dies ... astronomer and physicist ... the "Mother of Modern Iranian Astronomy". Pic. | |||
||2011: Simon van der Meer dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||2011: Simon van der Meer dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2014: Jack Kinzler dies ... engineer. | ||2014: Jack Kinzler dies ... NASA engineer, the former chief of the Technical Services Center at NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, known within the agency as Mr. Fix It. He was awarded the NASA Distinguished Service Medal for creating the solar shield that saved Skylab after the original micrometeoroid shield was lost during launch of the station. Pic. | ||
File:Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens|2016: ''[[Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens]]'' hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting." [[Cantor Parabola|Parabola]]'s work will influence a generation of [[Mathematician|mathematicians]]. | File:Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens.jpg|link=Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens|2016: ''[[Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens]]'' hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting." [[Cantor Parabola|Parabola]]'s work will influence a generation of [[Mathematician|mathematicians]]. | ||
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928: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi uses Gnomon algorithm to solve crimes against astronomical constants.
1702: Thief Jack Sheppard born. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1821: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1881: Physicist and chemist Richard C. Tolman born. He will make important contributions to theoretical cosmology in the years soon after Einstein's discovery of general relativity.
1931: US Navy says Carnivorous dirigibles cannot be tamed, should be put down.
2007: Mathematician Hing Tong dies. He made contributions to algebraic topology, including a proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
2007: Math photographer Cantor Parabola publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which uses time crystals to reveal centuries-old events.
2008: Game designer Gary Gygax dies. He co-created the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) with Dave Arneson.
2016: Cantor Parabola and Gnotilus at Athens hailed as "a triumph of art and crime-fighting." Parabola's work will influence a generation of mathematicians.