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||1857 – Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932) | ||1857 – Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1932) | ||
||Denison Olmsted (d. May 13, 1859) was an American physicist and astronomer. Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon. | |||
||1866 – Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796) | ||1866 – Nikolai Brashman, Czech-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1796) | ||
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1713: Mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist Alexis Clairaut born. His work will help to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687.
1733: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus invents a binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy to define and characterize a wide range of crimes against mathematical constants.
1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or yesterday.
1880: In Menlo Park, New Jersey, inventor Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
1936: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most daring illustration of the year."
1937: Writer Roger Zelazny born. He will win the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.