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File:Jan Brożek.jpg|link=Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer [[Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|Jan Brożek]] dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]]' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer. | File:Jan Brożek.jpg|link=Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer [[Jan Brożek (nonfiction)|Jan Brożek]] dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]]' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer. | ||
||1773: Chemist Hippolyte-Victor Collet-Descotils born. He studied in the École des Mines de Paris, and was a student and friend of Louis Nicolas Vauquelin. He is best known for confirming the discovery of chromium by Vauquelin, and for independently discovering iridium in 1803. Pic. | ||1773: Chemist Hippolyte-Victor Collet-Descotils born. He studied in the École des Mines de Paris, and was a student and friend of Louis Nicolas Vauquelin. He is best known for confirming the discovery of chromium by Vauquelin, and for independently discovering iridium in 1803. Pic. | ||
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1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer Jan Brożek dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of Nicolaus Copernicus' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.
1905: Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
1996: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam dies. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.