Events
Birthdays
- Scott Aaronson [1981]
American theoretical computer scientist - Sandy Douglas [1921]
Creator of the first graphical computer game, OXO (Noughts and Crosses) - Henri Rousseau [1844]
French Post-Impressionist painter - Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis [1792]
French mathematician known for the Coriolis effect and coining the word 'work' for energy
Death Anniversaries
- James Franck [1964]
German physicist who proved the quantum nature of atoms - Hugo de Vries [1935]
Dutch botanist who rediscovered Mendel's laws of heredity - Otto von Guericke [1686]
Inventor of the vacuum pump