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||2003: Bertram Brockhouse dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, neutron scattering. Pic. | ||2003: Bertram Brockhouse dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate, neutron scattering. Pic. | ||
||2006: Hilda Terry dies ... cartoonist, created the comic strip ''Teena'', which ran in newspapers from 1944 to 1964. Pic. | |||
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1597: Astronomer Johannes Kepler replied to Galileo's letter of 4 August, 1597, urging him to be bold and proceed openly in his advocacy of Copernicanism.
1687: Astronomer, lens-maker, and academic Geminiano Montanari dies. He made the observation that Algol in the constellation of Perseus varies in brightness.
1715: Priest and philosopher Nicolas Malebranche dies. He was instrumental in introducing and disseminating the work of René Descartes and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in France.
1729: Leonhard Euler mentions the gamma function in a letter to Christian Goldbach. Adrien-Marie Legendre gave the function its symbol and name in 1826.
1772: Using the San Pietro scrying engine, astronomer Charles Messier previews his discovery of a "galactic whirlpool" with a temporal accuracy of "within a year".
1773: The Whirlpool Galaxy is discovered by Charles Messier.
1774: The Custodian prevents the Whirlpool Galaxy Gang from committing crimes against astronomical constants, citing the gang's "expired transdimensional corporate license."
1890: Mathematician Georg Feigl born. He will work on the foundations of geometry and topology, studying fixed point theorems for n-dimensional manifolds. Feigl will be one of the initial authors of the Mathematisches Wörterbuch.
1987: Physicist and academic Walter Houser Brattain dies. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 "for research on semiconductors and the discovery of the transistor effect."
1989: Lorenz system develops self-awareness, experiences irrational fear of the number thirteen.
2018: Signed first edition of Red Spiral 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.