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File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1462: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist. | File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1462: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist. | ||
||1561: Mathematician and academic Henry Briggs born ... notable for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier into common (base 10) logarithms, which are sometimes known as Briggsian logarithms in his honor. DOB unknown. Pic search (none?) | ||1561: Mathematician and academic Henry Briggs born ... notable for changing the original logarithms invented by John Napier into common (base 10) logarithms, which are sometimes known as Briggsian logarithms in his honor. DOB unknown. Pic search (none?). | ||
||1659: Jacob Roggeveen born ... explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis, but instead came across Easter Island (called Easter Island because he landed there on Easter Day). Jacob Roggeveen also encountered Bora Bora and Maupiti of the Society Islands and Samoa. Pic search | ||1659: Jacob Roggeveen born ... explorer who was sent to find Terra Australis, but instead came across Easter Island (called Easter Island because he landed there on Easter Day). Jacob Roggeveen also encountered Bora Bora and Maupiti of the Society Islands and Samoa. Pic search. | ||
||1698: Mathematician Colin Maclaurin born. He will make important contributions to geometry and algebra. The Maclaurin series, a special case of the Taylor series, will be named after him. Pic. | ||1698: Mathematician Colin Maclaurin born. He will make important contributions to geometry and algebra. The Maclaurin series, a special case of the Taylor series, will be named after him. Pic. | ||
||1801: Jean-Baptiste Boussingault born ... chemist and academic ... made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy. Pic. | ||1801: Jean-Baptiste Boussingault born ... chemist and academic ... made significant contributions to agricultural science, petroleum science and metallurgy. Pic. | ||
||1840: William Allen Whitworth born ... mathematician and a priest in the Church of England. Author of "Choice and Chance". Pic search (book cover) | ||1840: William Allen Whitworth born ... mathematician and a priest in the Church of England. Author of "Choice and Chance". Pic search (book cover). | ||
||1847: Eduardo Torroja Caballé born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1847: Eduardo Torroja Caballé born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
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||1916: George W. Mackey born ... mathematician. Mackey was one of the pioneer workers in the intersection of quantum logic, the theory of infinite-dimensional unitary representations of groups, the theory of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. Pic. | ||1916: George W. Mackey born ... mathematician. Mackey was one of the pioneer workers in the intersection of quantum logic, the theory of infinite-dimensional unitary representations of groups, the theory of operator algebras and noncommutative geometry. Pic. | ||
||1923: Computer scientist Jerre Noe born. In the 1950s, he led the technical team for the ERMA project, the Bank of America's first venture into computerized banking. Pic search | ||1923: Computer scientist Jerre Noe born. In the 1950s, he led the technical team for the ERMA project, the Bank of America's first venture into computerized banking. Pic search. | ||
|link=Sam Edwards (nonfiction)|1928: Physicist and academic [[Sam Edwards (nonfiction)|Sam Edwards]] born. Pic. | |link=Sam Edwards (nonfiction)|1928: Physicist and academic [[Sam Edwards (nonfiction)|Sam Edwards]] born. Pic. | ||
||1940: George de Bothezat dies ... engineer, businessman, and pioneer of helicopter flight. Pic. | ||1940: George de Bothezat dies ... engineer, businessman, and pioneer of helicopter flight. Pic. | ||
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||1964: William Howard Livens dies ... engineer, a soldier in the British Army and an inventor particularly known for the design of chemical warfare and flame warfare weapons. Resourceful and clever, Livens’ successful creations were characterised by being very practical and easy to produce in large numbers. Livens is best known for inventing the Livens Projector, a simple mortar-like weapon that could throw large drums filled with inflammable or toxic chemicals. Pic. | ||1964: William Howard Livens dies ... engineer, a soldier in the British Army and an inventor particularly known for the design of chemical warfare and flame warfare weapons. Resourceful and clever, Livens’ successful creations were characterised by being very practical and easy to produce in large numbers. Livens is best known for inventing the Livens Projector, a simple mortar-like weapon that could throw large drums filled with inflammable or toxic chemicals. Pic. | ||
||1970: Alfréd Rényi dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search | ||1970: Alfréd Rényi dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search. | ||
File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1976: Physicist and academic [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] dies. He introduced the [[Uncertainty principle (nonfiction)|uncertainty principle]] -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known. | File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1976: Physicist and academic [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] dies. He introduced the [[Uncertainty principle (nonfiction)|uncertainty principle]] -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known. | ||
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1462: Polymath Johannes Trithemius born. He will be remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
1893: Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey.
1903: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet dies. He made pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.
1944: Pultizer Prize awarded to Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition).
1976: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg dies. He introduced the uncertainty principle -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known.