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File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1473: Mathematician and astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]] born. He will formulate a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. | File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1473: Mathematician and astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]] born. He will formulate a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe. | ||
||1511: Erasmus Reinhold born ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic search | ||1511: Erasmus Reinhold born ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic search. | ||
||1519: Froben Christoph of Zimmern born ... author of the Zimmern Chronicle. Pic. | ||1519: Froben Christoph of Zimmern born ... author of the Zimmern Chronicle. Pic. | ||
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||1866: Thomas Jefferson Jackson (T. J. J.) born ... astronomer whose promulgated theories in astronomy and physics were eventually disproven. His educational and professional career were dogged by conflict, including his attacks on relativity. He was fired from his position at two observatories, eventually serving out his professional years in an island outpost in California. Pic. | ||1866: Thomas Jefferson Jackson (T. J. J.) born ... astronomer whose promulgated theories in astronomy and physics were eventually disproven. His educational and professional career were dogged by conflict, including his attacks on relativity. He was fired from his position at two observatories, eventually serving out his professional years in an island outpost in California. Pic. | ||
||1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph. | ||1878: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph. TO_DO | ||
||1889: Ernest Marsden born ... physicist. He is recognized internationally for his contributions to science while working under Ernest Rutherford, which led to the discovery of new theories on the structure of the atom. Pic. | ||1889: Ernest Marsden born ... physicist. He is recognized internationally for his contributions to science while working under Ernest Rutherford, which led to the discovery of new theories on the structure of the atom. Pic. | ||
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File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1946: Mathematician and academic [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] presents the "Proposal for the Development in the Mathematics Division of an Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) to a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL); the proposal will be approved at a second meeting held a month later. | File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1946: Mathematician and academic [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] presents the "Proposal for the Development in the Mathematics Division of an Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) to a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL); the proposal will be approved at a second meeting held a month later. | ||
||1949: Danielle Bunten Berry born ... game designer and programmer. Pic. | |||
||1949: Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University. Pic. | ||1949: Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University. Pic. | ||
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||1988: André Frédéric Cournand dies ... physician and physiologist, shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards for the development of cardiac catheterization. Pic. | ||1988: André Frédéric Cournand dies ... physician and physiologist, shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards for the development of cardiac catheterization. Pic. | ||
||1990: Otto E. Neugebauer dies ... mathematician and historian of science who became known for his research on the history of astronomy and the other exact sciences in antiquity and into the Middle Ages. By studying clay tablets, he discovered that the ancient Babylonians knew much more about mathematics and astronomy than had been previously realized. Pic search | ||1990: Otto E. Neugebauer dies ... mathematician and historian of science who became known for his research on the history of astronomy and the other exact sciences in antiquity and into the Middle Ages. By studying clay tablets, he discovered that the ancient Babylonians knew much more about mathematics and astronomy than had been previously realized. Pic search. | ||
||1991: Milton Spinoza Plesset ... applied physicist who worked in the field of fluid mechanics and nuclear energy. Pic. | ||1991: Milton Spinoza Plesset ... applied physicist who worked in the field of fluid mechanics and nuclear energy. Pic. | ||
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||2014: Valeri Kubasov dies ... engineer and astronaut. Kubasov performed the first welding experiments in space, along with Georgy Shonin. Pic. | ||2014: Valeri Kubasov dies ... engineer and astronaut. Kubasov performed the first welding experiments in space, along with Georgy Shonin. Pic. | ||
||2014: Jim Weirich dies ... computer scientist, developed Rake Software. Pic search | ||2014: Jim Weirich dies ... computer scientist, developed Rake Software. Pic search. | ||
File:Phagey the Extract of Radium mascot.png|link=Extract of Radium|1965: [[Extract of Radium]] sponsors re-enactment of the [[Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|eruption of Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina]]. | File:Phagey the Extract of Radium mascot.png|link=Extract of Radium|1965: [[Extract of Radium]] sponsors re-enactment of the [[Huaynaputina (nonfiction)|eruption of Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina]]. | ||
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1473: Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus born. He will formulate a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
1596: Cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction) dies. The Vigenère cipher was misattributed to him; Vigenère himself devised a different, stronger cipher.
1600: The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1616: The Inquisition asked a commission of theologians, known as qualifiers, about the propositions of the heliocentric view of the universe after Nicollo Lorin had accused Galileo Galilei of heretical remarks in a letter to his former student, Benedetto Castelli.
1799: Mathematician, physicist, and sailor Jean-Charles de Borda dies. He contributed to the development of the metric system, constructing a platinum standard meter, the basis of metric distance measurement.
1897: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass dies. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".
1919: Mathematician and academic Alexander Andreevich Samarskii born. Samarskii will contribute to applied mathematics, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, and finite difference methods.
1937: Physicist and crime-fighter Maria Goeppert-Mayer publishes mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells which detects and prevents crimes against physical constants.
1946: Mathematician and academic Alan Turing presents the "Proposal for the Development in the Mathematics Division of an Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) to a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Physical Laboratory (NPL); the proposal will be approved at a second meeting held a month later.
1965: Extract of Radium sponsors re-enactment of the eruption of Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina.
2016: Novelist, literary critic, and philosopher Umberto Eco dies. He cited James Joyce and Jorge Luis Borges as the two modern authors who have influenced his work the most.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta Paragliding reveals encrypted data "almost certainly related to secret programs within the ENIAC program."
2016: Steganographic analysis of Three Kings 2 reveals "five hundred and twelve kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
2017: Mathematician and dissident Igor Shafarevich dies. He made fundamental contributions to algebraic number theory, algebraic geometry, and arithmetic algebraic geometry.