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||1983: Harrie Massey dies ... mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics. Pic. | ||1983: Harrie Massey dies ... mathematical physicist who worked primarily in the fields of atomic and atmospheric physics. Pic. | ||
||1990: Basilis C. Xanthopoulos | ||1990: Basilis C. Xanthopoulos murdered ... physicist and academic ... contributions to the study of colliding plane waves in general relativity. No DOB. Pic. | ||
||2001: A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet. | ||2001: A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet. | ||
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1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, is prized by gamblers.
1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1971: The The Mars 2 landing module crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 crash.
