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||1911 – Bronisław Żurakowski, Polish pilot and engineer (d. 2009) | ||1911 – Bronisław Żurakowski, Polish pilot and engineer (d. 2009) | ||
||Ernst Witt (b. 26 June 1911) was a German mathematician, one of the leading algebraists of his time. Pic. | |||
||1913 – Maurice Wilkes, English computer scientist and physicist (d. 2010) | ||1913 – Maurice Wilkes, English computer scientist and physicist (d. 2010) |
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1730: Astronomer Charles Messier born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1823: Havelock announces plan to collaborate with David Rittenhouse and Lord Kelvin on building an orrery which models the heat death of the universe.
1824: Lord Kelvin born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1842: Clock Head advises Judge Havelock to drink less Extract of Radium, less often.