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||John Wilson (d. 18 October 1793) was an English mathematician. Wilson's theorem is named after him. Pic. | ||John Wilson (d. 18 October 1793) was an English mathematician. Wilson's theorem is named after him. Pic. | ||
||Jean-Dominique, comte de Cassini (d. 18 October 1845) was a French astronomer, son of César-François Cassini de Thury. Pic. | |||
||Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (b. 18 October 1847) was a Russian electrical engineer and inventor, one of inventors of the incandescent light bulb. Pic. | ||Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin (b. 18 October 1847) was a Russian electrical engineer and inventor, one of inventors of the incandescent light bulb. Pic. | ||
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1791: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.
1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.