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||1875: Grace Marie Bareis born ... mathematician. Bareis taught mathematics to World War II veterans in a class called the "Army Specialized Training Program" and even did so two years after her retirement because of a shortage of math instructors. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Grace+Marie+Bareis
||1875: Grace Marie Bareis born ... mathematician. Bareis taught mathematics to World War II veterans in a class called the "Army Specialized Training Program" and even did so two years after her retirement because of a shortage of math instructors. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Grace+Marie+Bareis


||1887: Balfour Stewart dies ... physicist. His studies in the field of radiant heat led to him receiving the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society in 1868.
||1887: Balfour Stewart dies ... physicist. His studies in the field of radiant heat led to him receiving the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society in 1868. Pic.


||1894: Karl Pearson introduced the Pearson family of densities. [Springer’s 1985 Statistics Calendar] *VFR https://pballew.blogspot.com/2018/12/on-this-day-in-math-december-19.html
||1894: Karl Pearson introduced the Pearson family of densities. [Springer’s 1985 Statistics Calendar] *VFR https://pballew.blogspot.com/2018/12/on-this-day-in-math-december-19.html

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  • 1714: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop born. He will be one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.

    1714: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop born. He will be one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.

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    1901: Inventor and engineer Rudolf Hell born. He will invent the Hellschreiber teleprinter system.

  • 1953: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan dies. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.

    1953: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan dies. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.

  • 1956: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.

    1956: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.

  • 2015: Steganographic analysis of still images from the Toledo giant red ball incident video unexpectedly reveals a computer virus which "specifically targets this type of red ball, and undoubtedly caused its erratic behavior."

    2015: Steganographic analysis of still images from the Toledo giant red ball incident video unexpectedly reveals a computer virus which "specifically targets this type of red ball, and undoubtedly caused its erratic behavior."

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