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||1910: Jacques Cousteau born ... biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung. Pic. | ||1910: Jacques Cousteau born ... biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung. Pic. | ||
||1912: Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff born ... philosopher, mathematician and epistemologist.[1] He was also a university lecturer at the University of Tübingen. During World War II, Freytag-Löringhoff worked as a mathematician in the In 7/VI, that was the signals intelligence agency of the Wehrmacht and worked with Fritz Menzer on the testing of cryptographic devices and procedures. Freytag-Löringhoff worked specifically on the testing of the m-40 cipher machine. His most important contributions to the history of logic and mathematics was his studies and descriptions from 1957, of the calculating machine, built by Wilhelm Schickard. Pic. | |||
File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1914: ''The Safe-Cracker'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time." | File:The Safe-Cracker.jpg|link=The Safe-Cracker|1914: ''The Safe-Cracker'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time." | ||
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||1957: Maurice Audin dies ... mathematics assistant at the University of Algiers, a member of the Algerian Communist Party and an activist in the anticolonialist cause, who was one of the "disappeared" during the Battle of Algiers. Pic. | ||1957: Maurice Audin dies ... mathematics assistant at the University of Algiers, a member of the Algerian Communist Party and an activist in the anticolonialist cause, who was one of the "disappeared" during the Battle of Algiers. Pic. | ||
||1965: Paul B. Coremans dies ... chemist and academic. WWII monuments. Pic search | ||1965: Paul B. Coremans dies ... chemist and academic. WWII monuments. Pic search. | ||
||1968: Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types. Pic. | ||1968: Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types. Pic. | ||
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||2008: The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit. | ||2008: The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit. | ||
||2014: Susan B. Horwitz dies ... computer scientist and academic ... noted for her research on programming languages and software engineering, and in particular on program slicing and dataflow-analysis. Pic search | ||2014: Susan B. Horwitz dies ... computer scientist and academic ... noted for her research on programming languages and software engineering, and in particular on program slicing and dataflow-analysis. Pic search. | ||
File:Red Spiral.jpg|link=Red Spiral (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Red Spiral (nonfiction)|Red Spiral]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada. | File:Red Spiral.jpg|link=Red Spiral (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Red Spiral (nonfiction)|Red Spiral]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada. | ||
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1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli writes in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.
1914: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time."
1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to Thefixisin.
2017: Red Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.