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||1825 – Henry Walter Bates, English geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1892) Mimicry | ||1825 – Henry Walter Bates, English geographer, biologist, and explorer (d. 1892) Mimicry | ||
||1825: Baptiste Jules Henri Jacques Giffard born ... engineer. In 1852 he invented the steam injector and the powered Giffard dirigible airship. Pic. | |||
||1834 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (d. 1907) | ||1834 – Dmitri Mendeleev, Russian chemist and academic (d. 1907) | ||
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1700: Mathematician and physicist Daniel Bernoulli born. He will be particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics.
1866: Chemist Moses Gomberg born. He will identify the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and will thus be known as the founder of radical chemistry.
1867: Didacus automaton develops self-awareness, invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.
1879: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
1933: Carnivorous dirigibles found responsible for recent wave of cattle mutilations.
1957: Mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist John von Neumann dies. He was a key figure in the development of the digital computer, and developed mathematical models of both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.