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File:Evariste Galois.jpg|link=Évariste Galois (nonfiction)|1832: Mathematician and social activist [[Évariste Galois (nonfiction)|Évariste Galois]] from wounds suffered in a duel.  While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections.  
File:Evariste Galois.jpg|link=Évariste Galois (nonfiction)|1832: Mathematician and social activist [[Évariste Galois (nonfiction)|Évariste Galois]] from wounds suffered in a duel.  While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections.  
File:Karl Georg Christian von Staudt.jpg|link=Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|1836: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|Karl Georg Christian von Staudt]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1841: George Green dies ...  mathematical physicist who wrote ''An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism'' (Green, 1828). The essay introduced several important concepts, among them a theorem similar to the modern Green's theorem, the idea of potential functions as currently used in physics, and the concept of what are now called Green's functions. Green was the first person to create a mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism and his theory formed the foundation for the work of other scientists. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Green_(English_shipbuilder).jpg Pic search.
||1841: George Green dies ...  mathematical physicist who wrote ''An Essay on the Application of Mathematical Analysis to the Theories of Electricity and Magnetism'' (Green, 1828). The essay introduced several important concepts, among them a theorem similar to the modern Green's theorem, the idea of potential functions as currently used in physics, and the concept of what are now called Green's functions. Green was the first person to create a mathematical theory of electricity and magnetism and his theory formed the foundation for the work of other scientists. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:George_Green_(English_shipbuilder).jpg Pic search.
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||1859: The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
||1859: The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.
File:Pascaline.jpg|link=Pascal's calculator (nonfiction)|1860: First known use of [[Pascal's calculator (nonfiction)|Pascal's calculator]] in [[Time travel (nonfiction)|time travel]] experiments.


||1861: William Peddie born ... physicist and applied mathematician, known for his research on colour vision and molecular magnetism. Pic.
||1861: William Peddie born ... physicist and applied mathematician, known for his research on colour vision and molecular magnetism. Pic.
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||2013: Tim Samaras dies ... engineer and storm chaser. Pic.
||2013: Tim Samaras dies ... engineer and storm chaser. Pic.
File:Taffy Bomb.jpg|link=Taffy Bomb (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Taffy Bomb (nonfiction)|Taffy Bomb]]'' purchased for an undisclosed amount by  "a celebrity [[Gnomon algorithm]] theorist born and raised in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]."


||2017: Muon g-2: The magnet receives its first beam of muons in its new location. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Storage_ring.jpg
||2017: Muon g-2: The magnet receives its first beam of muons in its new location. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Storage_ring.jpg


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  • 1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer.

    1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer.

  • 1831: Engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham dies. He designed the first Panopticon.

    1831: Engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham dies. He designed the first Panopticon.

  • 1832: Mathematician and social activist Évariste Galois from wounds suffered in a duel. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections.

    1832: Mathematician and social activist Évariste Galois from wounds suffered in a duel. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections.

  • 1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved.

    1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved.

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