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||1959 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876) | ||1959 – Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876) | ||
||Harold Davenport (d. 9 June 1969) was an English mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory. Pic. | |||
||1989 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) | ||1989 – George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) | ||
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1861: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem born. He will write: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1950: Dalton Trumbo photographed by authorities.