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||1459: Martin Behaim born ... navigator and geographer, best known for his Erdapfel, the world's oldest surviving globe, which he produced for the Imperial City of Nuremberg in 1492. Pic. | ||1459: Martin Behaim born ... navigator and geographer, best known for his Erdapfel, the world's oldest surviving globe, which he produced for the Imperial City of Nuremberg in 1492. Pic. | ||
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||1897: Florence B. Seibert born ... biochemist and academic ... will identify the active agent in the antigen tuberculin as a protein, and subsequently isolate a pure form of tuberculin, purified protein derivative (PPD), enabling the development and use of a reliable TB test. Pic. | ||1897: Florence B. Seibert born ... biochemist and academic ... will identify the active agent in the antigen tuberculin as a protein, and subsequently isolate a pure form of tuberculin, purified protein derivative (PPD), enabling the development and use of a reliable TB test. Pic. | ||
||1903: Ernest Walton born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
|| | ||1908: Sergei Sobolev born ... mathematician and academic. TO_DO in play. | ||
|| | ||1912: Walter William Skeat dies ... pre-eminent philologist of his time. He was instrumental in developing the English language as a higher education subject in the United Kingdom. Pic. | ||
||1918: Abraham Robinson born ... mathematician who is most widely known for development of non-standard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were reincorporated into modern mathematics. Nearly half of Robinson's papers were in applied mathematics rather than in pure mathematics. Pic. | ||1918: Abraham Robinson born ... mathematician who is most widely known for development of non-standard analysis, a mathematically rigorous system whereby infinitesimal and infinite numbers were reincorporated into modern mathematics. Nearly half of Robinson's papers were in applied mathematics rather than in pure mathematics. Pic. | ||
||1921: Evgenii Landis born ... mathematician and theorist. | ||1921: Evgenii Landis born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||
||1924: Bruce Irons born ... engineer and mathematician, known for his fundamental contribution to the finite element method, including the patch test, the frontal solver and, along with Ian C. Taig, the isoparametric element concept. Pic. | ||1924: Bruce Irons born ... engineer and mathematician, known for his fundamental contribution to the finite element method, including the patch test, the frontal solver and, along with Ian C. Taig, the isoparametric element concept. Pic. | ||
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||1995: 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the second major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it. | ||1995: 51 Pegasi is discovered to be the second major star apart from the Sun to have a planet orbiting around it. | ||
||2007: Robert W. Bussard dies ... physicist who worked primarily in nuclear fusion energy research. Bussard ramjet. Pic | ||2007: Robert W. Bussard dies ... physicist who worked primarily in nuclear fusion energy research. Bussard ramjet. Pic search. | ||
||2007: Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe. | ||2007: Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe. (Born 13 September 1967; alive March 2020.) Pic. | ||
||2007: Asteroid 2008 TC3 discovered ... an 80-metric-ton (80-long-ton; 90-short-ton), 4.1-meter (13 ft) diameter asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere on October 7, 2008. It exploded at an estimated 37 kilometers (23 mi) above the Nubian Desert in Sudan. Some 600 meteorites, weighing a total of 10.5 kilograms (23.1 lb), were recovered; many of these belonged to a rare type known as ureilites, which contain, among other minerals, nanodiamonds. It was the first time that an asteroid impact had been predicted prior to its entry into the atmosphere as a meteor. Pic. | ||2007: Asteroid 2008 TC3 discovered ... an 80-metric-ton (80-long-ton; 90-short-ton), 4.1-meter (13 ft) diameter asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere on October 7, 2008. It exploded at an estimated 37 kilometers (23 mi) above the Nubian Desert in Sudan. Some 600 meteorites, weighing a total of 10.5 kilograms (23.1 lb), were recovered; many of these belonged to a rare type known as ureilites, which contain, among other minerals, nanodiamonds. It was the first time that an asteroid impact had been predicted prior to its entry into the atmosphere as a meteor. Pic. | ||
||2013: Nicolaas 'Nico' Godfried van Kampen dies ... theoretical physicist, who worked mainly on statistical mechanics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. | ||2013: Nicolaas 'Nico' Godfried van Kampen dies ... theoretical physicist, who worked mainly on statistical mechanics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. Pic search. | ||
File:Violet Spiral.jpg|link=Violet Spiral (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Violet Spiral (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Violet Spiral.jpg|link=Violet Spiral (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Violet Spiral (nonfiction)|Violet Spiral]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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1570: Gerolamo Cardano imprisoned for 87 days on charges of impiety (casting a horoscope of Christ). He spent the remaining five years of his life in Rome under the eye of a suspicious pope who nonetheless gave him a pension.
1735: Mathematician, astronomical and scientific instrument maker Jesse Ramsden born. He will build his reputation on his engraving and design of dividing engines, which allowed high accuracy measurements of angles and lengths in instruments. Ramsden will produce instruments for astronomy that will be especially well-known for maritime use (needed for the measurement of latitudes), and for his surveying instruments (widely used for cartography and land survey).
1784: Mathematician, engineer, cartographer, economist, and politician Charles Dupin born. In 1826 he will create the earliest known choropleth map.
1785: Mathematician, philosopher, and phenomenological crime-fighter Thomas Reid publishes new theory of sensus communis) based on the belief that there is a Gnomon algorithm which accurately represents the external world. Reid's work will soon find applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against physical constants.
1831: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind born. He will make important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.
1851: Mechanical soldier Clock Head co-founds the town of Periphery.
1866: Inventor Reginald Fessenden born. He will perform pioneering experiments in radio, including the use of continuous waves and the early—and possibly the first—radio transmissions of voice and music.
1880: Mathematician Benjamin Peirce dies. He made contributions to celestial mechanics, statistics, number theory, algebra, and the philosophy of mathematics; he became known for the statement that "Mathematics is the science that draws necessary conclusions".
1889: American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
1967: Mathematician, academic, and APTO matrix security specialist Olga Taussky-Todd discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use the computational stability of complex matrices to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Violet Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.