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||1880 – Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (b. 1812) | ||1880 – Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (b. 1812) | ||
||Eugenio Beltrami (d. 18 February 1900) was an Italian mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics. His work was noted especially for clarity of exposition. | |||
File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1930: While studying photographs taken in January, astronomer [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] discovers Pluto. | File:Clyde W. Tombaugh.jpg|link=Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|1930: While studying photographs taken in January, astronomer [[Clyde Tombaugh (nonfiction)|Clyde Tombaugh]] discovers Pluto. | ||
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1809: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel uses electricity to power new type of scrying engine.
1851: Mathematician and academic Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi dies. He made fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
1930: While studying photographs taken in January, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.
1930: Mathematician Emmy Noether publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which transform theoretical physics into practical physics.
1967: American physicist and academic J. Robert Oppenheimer dies. His achievements in physics included the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.
