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||1564: Johannes Acronius Frisius dies ... physician and mathematician. | ||1564: Johannes Acronius Frisius dies ... physician and mathematician. No DOB. No pics online. | ||
||1616: Nicholas Culpeper born ... botanist, physician, and astrologer. He spent much of his life in outdoor catalogueing of hundreds of medicinal herbs. Pic. | |||
File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1640: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] announced his "little theorem" in a letter to Bernard Frenicle de Bessey. | File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1640: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] announced his "little theorem" in a letter to Bernard Frenicle de Bessey. | ||
||1775: Christian August Crusius dies ... philosopher and theologian ... anti Liebniz. | ||1775: Christian August Crusius dies ... philosopher and theologian ... anti Liebniz. Pic. | ||
||1793: John Wilson dies ... mathematician. Wilson's theorem is named after him. Pic. | ||1793: John Wilson dies ... mathematician. Wilson's theorem is named after him. Pic. | ||
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1640: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat announced his "little theorem" in a letter to Bernard Frenicle de Bessey.
1871: 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".
1921: Niels Bohr introduced his quantum model of the atom.
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.