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||1922: 1922 Emmy Noether named “unofficial associate professor” at Gottingen. This purely honorary position reveals the strong prejudice of the day against women. [DSB 10, 138 and A. Dick, xiii.] Thony Christie sent me a note that says "In 1922 Emmy Noether was appointed 'außerordentliche Professur' which is not an 'unofficial associate professor' but is an official professorial post without a chair. " Thanks, Thony https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/04/on-this-day-in-math-april-6.html | ||1922: 1922 Emmy Noether named “unofficial associate professor” at Gottingen. This purely honorary position reveals the strong prejudice of the day against women. [DSB 10, 138 and A. Dick, xiii.] Thony Christie sent me a note that says "In 1922 Emmy Noether was appointed 'außerordentliche Professur' which is not an 'unofficial associate professor' but is an official professorial post without a chair. " Thanks, Thony https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/04/on-this-day-in-math-april-6.html | ||
File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|1926: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] born. | File:Gil Kane.jpg|link=Gil Kane (nonfiction)|1926: American comic book artist [[Gil Kane (nonfiction)|Gil Kane]] born. Kane will pioneer graphic novels with his books ''His Name is...Savage'' (1968) and ''Blackmark'' (1971). | ||
||1930: Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire," beginning the Salt Satyagraha. Pic. | ||1930: Gandhi raises a lump of mud and salt and declares, "With this, I am shaking the foundations of the British Empire," beginning the Salt Satyagraha. Pic. |
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1528: Painter, engraver, and mathematician Albrecht Dürer dies. Dürer is regarded as the greatest German Renaissance artist: his vast body of work will include altarpieces and religious works, numerous portraits and self-portraits, and copper engravings.
1749: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Thomas Bayes uses statistical methods to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1793: During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic.
1829: Mathematician and theorist Niels Henrik Abel dies. Abel made pioneering contributions in a variety of fields, including the discover of Abelian functions, and the first complete proof demonstrating the impossibility of solving the general quintic equation in radicals.
1889: Physicist and crime-fighter Petrus Leonardus Rijke invents the Rijke tube, which neutralizes crimes against audio constants by creating a self-quantumizing standing wave.
1926: American comic book artist Gil Kane born. Kane will pioneer graphic novels with his books His Name is...Savage (1968) and Blackmark (1971).
1992: Writer Isaac Asimov dies. He was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime.
2003: Computer scientist Anita Borg dies. She founded Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
2016: Robot 7 voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Reality television show Dennis Paulson of Mars wins Pulitzer Prize for "inspiring humanity to reach for the stars."