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||1779 – Peter Mark Roget, English physician, lexicographer, and theologian (d. 1869) | ||1779 – Peter Mark Roget, English physician, lexicographer, and theologian (d. 1869) | ||
||Sir Edward Frankland, KCB, FRS FRSE (18 January 1825 – 9 August 1899) was a British chemist. He was one of the originators of organometallic chemistry and introduced the concept of combining power or valence. An expert in water quality and analysis, he was a member of the second royal commission on the pollution of rivers, and studied London's water quality for decades. He also studied luminous flames and the effects of atmospheric pressure on dense ignited gas, and was one of the discoverers of helium. | |||
||1853 – Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African farmer, soldier, and gun-maker (d. 1900) | ||1853 – Marthinus Nikolaas Ras, South African farmer, soldier, and gun-maker (d. 1900) | ||
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1878: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel dies. He pioneered the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
1907: Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Prison unable to contain supervillain Fugitive Rubies.
1908: Mathematician, historian of science, theatre author, poet, and inventor Jacob Bronowski born.
1923: crossword puzzle modified for use with Gnomon algorithm functions.
1937: Enrico Fermi invents new class of Gnomon algorithms which reverse effects of certain crimes against mathematical constants.
1969: Vuvuzela of Doom announces world tour.
1997: New class of Crimes against mathematical constants "are overrated."