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||1842 – Carl von Linde, German engineer and academic (d. 1934) | ||1842 – Carl von Linde, German engineer and academic (d. 1934) | ||
||1860: Baden Powell dies ... mathematician and Church of England priest. He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1827 to 1860. Powell was a prominent liberal theologian who put forward advanced ideas about evolution. Pic. | |||
||1867 – Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic (d. 1945) | ||1867 – Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic (d. 1945) | ||
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1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli write in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.
1914: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time."
1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to Thefixisin.
