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||1689: General Enea Silvio Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enea_Silvio_Piccolomini_Duomo_Siena.jpg | ||1689: General Enea Silvio Piccolomini of Austria burns down Skopje to prevent the spread of cholera. He died of cholera himself soon after. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enea_Silvio_Piccolomini_Duomo_Siena.jpg | ||
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||1874: Martin Lowry born ... chemist and academic. He developed the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory simultaneously with and independently of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted. Pic. | ||1874: Martin Lowry born ... chemist and academic. He developed the Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory simultaneously with and independently of Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted. Pic. | ||
||1911: Shiing-Shen Chern born ... mathematician who made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He was widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century. | ||1911: Shiing-Shen Chern born ... mathematician who made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He was widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century. Pic. | ||
File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1922: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] publishes breakthrough survey of applications of matter at low temperatures to the computation and detection of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1922: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] publishes breakthrough survey of applications of matter at low temperatures to the computation and detection of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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File:Alexey Krylov 1910s.jpg|link=Aleksey Krylov (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician and naval engineer [[Aleksey Krylov (nonfiction)|Aleksey Krylov]] dies. Fame came to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship became internationally known. | File:Alexey Krylov 1910s.jpg|link=Aleksey Krylov (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician and naval engineer [[Aleksey Krylov (nonfiction)|Aleksey Krylov]] dies. Fame came to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship became internationally known. | ||
||1957: Gerty Cori dies ... biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1957: Gerty Cori dies ... biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1968: Mathematician Sergei Bernstein dies ... known for contributions to partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theory, and approximation theory. Pic. | ||1968: Mathematician Sergei Bernstein dies ... known for contributions to partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theory, and approximation theory. Pic. | ||
||1968: Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission. | ||1968: Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy pilots Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission. Pic (postage stamp). | ||
||1970: Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert dies ... astronomer of Belgian origin. He will be a pioneer of solar research, specializing in spectroscopy and the study of stellar atmospheres. Minnaert was also interested in bubbles and musical nature of the sounds made by running water (see Minnaert resonance). Pic. | ||1970: Marcel Gilles Jozef Minnaert dies ... astronomer of Belgian origin. He will be a pioneer of solar research, specializing in spectroscopy and the study of stellar atmospheres. Minnaert was also interested in bubbles and musical nature of the sounds made by running water (see Minnaert resonance). Pic. | ||
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||2007: Arthur Kornberg dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize. Pic (science!). | ||2007: Arthur Kornberg dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize. Pic (science!). | ||
||2008: Martin Arthur Pomerantz dies ... physicist who served as Director of the Bartol Research Institute and who had been a leader in developing Antarctic astronomy. | ||2008: Martin Arthur Pomerantz dies ... physicist who served as Director of the Bartol Research Institute and who had been a leader in developing Antarctic astronomy. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Martin+Arthur+Pomerantz | ||
||2015: Leo Kadanoff dies ... physicist and academic. | ||2015: Leo Kadanoff dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||2015: S. Barry Cooper dies ... mathematician and computability theorist. His book ''Computability Theory'' made the technical research area accessible to a new generation of students. Pic. | ||2015: S. Barry Cooper dies ... mathematician and computability theorist. His book ''Computability Theory'' made the technical research area accessible to a new generation of students. Pic. | ||
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1764: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth dies. His work ranged from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".
1848: Mathematician and crime-fighter Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi publishes landmark paper on the application of elliptic functions to the computation and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1849: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand Georg Frobenius born. He will make contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.
1922: Physicist and crime-fighter Heike Kamerlingh Onnes publishes breakthrough survey of applications of matter at low temperatures to the computation and detection of crimes against mathematical constants.
1923: Mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz dies. He fostered the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which advanced the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States.
1923: Clock Head 2 remembers mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz as "a genius, and a true friend."
1945: Mathematician and naval engineer Aleksey Krylov dies. Fame came to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship became internationally known.
1972: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky dies. He pioneered both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
1972: Space pilot and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt remembers aircraft engineer Igor Sikorsky as "a genius, and a true friend."
1983: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred Tarski dies. He was a prolific author, contributing to model theory, metamathematics, algebraic logic, abstract algebra, topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and analytic philosophy.
2017: Lend a Hand voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.