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||1899 – Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin (d. 1978) | ||1899 – Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin (d. 1978) | ||
||1903 – Hans Rohrbach, German mathematician (d. 1993) | ||1903 – Hans Rohrbach, German mathematician (d. 1993) He worked both as an algebraist and a number theorist and later worked as cryptanalyst at Pers Z S, the German Foreign Office cipher bureau, during World War II. | ||
||1904 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1996) | ||1904 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1996) | ||
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1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot dies. He invented the figure of John Bull.
1881: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer born. He will make contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
1967: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.