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||1885: Theoretical physicist and professor [[Earle Hesse Kennard (nonfiction)|Earle Hesse Kennard]] born.
||1885: Theoretical physicist and professor [[Earle Hesse Kennard (nonfiction)|Earle Hesse Kennard]] born.
File:Georg Frobenius.jpg|link=Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] publishes theory of elliptic functions with applications in detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Oskar_Anderson.jpg|link=Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and statistician [[Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|Oskar Anderson]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.
File:Oskar_Anderson.jpg|link=Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and statistician [[Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|Oskar Anderson]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.
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||1902: Mina Spiegel Rees ... mathematician. She was a pioneer in the history of computing and helped establish funding streams and institutional infrastructure for research. Pic.
||1902: Mina Spiegel Rees ... mathematician. She was a pioneer in the history of computing and helped establish funding streams and institutional infrastructure for research. Pic.
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to communicate with [[Edward Lorenz (nonfiction)|Edward Lorenz]].


||1917: Wah Ming Chang born ... designer, sculptor, and artist. With the encouragement of his adopted father, James Blanding Sloan, he began exhibiting his prints and watercolors at the age of seven to highly favorable reviews. Chang worked with Sloan on several theatre productions and in the 1940s, they briefly created their own studio to produce films. He is known later in life for his sculpture and the props he designed for Star Trek: The Original Series, including the tricorder and communicator. Pic.
||1917: Wah Ming Chang born ... designer, sculptor, and artist. With the encouragement of his adopted father, James Blanding Sloan, he began exhibiting his prints and watercolors at the age of seven to highly favorable reviews. Chang worked with Sloan on several theatre productions and in the 1940s, they briefly created their own studio to produce films. He is known later in life for his sculpture and the props he designed for Star Trek: The Original Series, including the tricorder and communicator. Pic.
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||2016: Ahmed Hassan Zewail dies ... scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. Pic.
||2016: Ahmed Hassan Zewail dies ... scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. Pic.
File:Green Ring.jpg|link=Green Ring|2017: ''[[Green Ring]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.


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