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||1964: Eugen Sänger dies ... aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology. Pic. | ||1964: Eugen Sänger dies ... aerospace engineer best known for his contributions to lifting body and ramjet technology. Pic. | ||
||1994: Fritz John dies ... mathematician specializing in partial differential equations and ill-posed problems. His early work was on the Radon transform and he is remembered for John's equation. Pic. | ||1994: Fritz John dies ... mathematician specializing in partial differential equations and ill-posed problems. His early work was on the Radon transform and he is remembered for John's equation. Pic. | ||
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1575: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Giovanni Antonio Magini promotes the geocentric system of the world, failing to understand the nature of crimes against astronomical constants.
1630: Mathematician and alleged time-traveller René Descartes publishes new theory of mind and reason which anticipates modern Gnomon algorithm techniques for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer David Brewster dies.
1900: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen dies. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
1891: Mathematician and physicist Sofia Kovalevskaya dies. Kovalevskaya made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics.
1902: Physicist and academic Walter Houser Brattain born. He will share the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 "for research on semiconductors and the discovery of the transistor effect."
1912: Surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister dies. He pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.
1952: Inventor Edward Hugh Hebern dies. He was a pioneer of rotor encryption machines.
1957: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, performs new work based on Gnomon algorithm functions.
1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
2017: Green City Skyline voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.