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||1921 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (d. 1979) | ||1921 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (d. 1979) | ||
||Julius Edgar Lilienfeld (d. August 28, 1963) was a Jewish Austro-Hungarian-born German-American physicist and electronic engineer, credited with the first patents on the field-effect transistor (FET) (1925) and electrolytic capacitor (1931). | |||
||1965 – Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (b. 1909) | ||1965 – Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (b. 1909) | ||
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1801: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot born. He will introduce the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
1802: Mathematician and engineer Gaspard Monge publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on his pioneering work in differential geometry, which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
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1916: Sociologist and author C. Wright Mills born. He will be published widely in popular and intellectual journals, advocating public and political engagement over disinterested observation.
1966: New study reveals that the Brainiac Explains lecture series is funded by a Brownian racket.