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||1837 – Francis Wayland Parker, American theorist and academic (d. 1902) | ||1837 – Francis Wayland Parker, American theorist and academic (d. 1902) | ||
||1852 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) | ||1852 – Hermann Emil Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) Hermann Emil Louis Fischer FRS FRSE FCS (9 October 1852 – 15 July 1919) was a German chemist and 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He also discovered the Fischer esterification. He developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic way of drawing asymmetric carbon atoms. | ||
||1858 – Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (d. 1935) | ||1858 – Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (d. 1935) | ||
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1581: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac born. He will do work in number theory and find a method of constructing magic squares.
1582: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin uses Copernican system of the solar system to predict imminent outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
1859: Alfred Dreyfus born. He will be wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
1903: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1918: CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt born. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt will plot the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration.
2017: Artificial intelligence based on the Golden ratio develops genuine gratitude for Michael Maestlin's approximation of the Golden ratio.
