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||1895 – William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982) | ||1895 – William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982) | ||
||William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (b. May 12, 1906 ) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer. | |||
||1910 – Dorothy Hodgkin, English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994) | ||1910 – Dorothy Hodgkin, English biochemist, crystallographer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994) | ||
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1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or tomorrow.
1855: Poet-Wizard Jan Kochanowski uses Nebra sky disk to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1856: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet dies. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.
1924: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann uses proof that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant, to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2014: Painter, sculptor, and set designer H. R. Giger dies. He gained fame for his work on the film Alien.
2017: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel escapes from The Nacreum using a surfboard powered by the gnomon algorithm.