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||1868 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801) | ||1868 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801) | ||
||Bronisław Knaster (b. 22 May 1893) was a Polish mathematician. He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum. Pic. | |||
||Bertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys (b. 22 May 1903) was a British physicist who carried out research on quantum theory. | ||Bertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys (b. 22 May 1903) was a British physicist who carried out research on quantum theory. | ||
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1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.
1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter Franz Ernst Neumann uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.
2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.