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||1854: Giovanni Battista Grassi born ... physician, zoologist, and entomologist.
||1854: Giovanni Battista Grassi born ... physician, zoologist, and entomologist.


||1855: William Libbey born ... target shooter, colonel, mountaineer, geographer, geologist, and archaeologist (d. 1927)
||1855: William Libbey born ... target shooter, colonel, mountaineer, geographer, geologist, and archaeologist.
 
||1855: James Alfred Ewing born ... physicist and engineer, best known for his work on the magnetic properties of metals and, in particular, for his discovery of, and coinage of the word, hysteresis. Pic.


||1857: Karl Pearson born ... mathematician, eugenicist, and academic.
||1857: Karl Pearson born ... mathematician, eugenicist, and academic.

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  • 1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen born. He will win the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.

    1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen born. He will win the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.

  • 1923: Chemist and physicist James Dewar dies. He invented the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases.

    1923: Chemist and physicist James Dewar dies. He invented the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases.

  • 1925: Mathematician Carl Gottfried Neumann dies. He will studied physics with his father, and later worked as a mathematician, dealing almost exclusively with problems arising from physics.

    1925: Mathematician Carl Gottfried Neumann dies. He will studied physics with his father, and later worked as a mathematician, dealing almost exclusively with problems arising from physics.

  • 1975: Statistician George E. P. Box publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on time-series analysis and Bayesian inference, which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1975: Statistician George E. P. Box publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on time-series analysis and Bayesian inference, which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2011: Artist George Tooker dies. His paintings depicted his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images used flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.

    2011: Artist George Tooker dies. His paintings depicted his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images used flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.

  • 2002: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    2002: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

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