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||1878 – Crawford Long, American surgeon and pharmacist (b. 1815) sulfur ether anaesthetic | ||1878 – Crawford Long, American surgeon and pharmacist (b. 1815) sulfur ether anaesthetic | ||
||Ernst Jakob Lennart von Post (b. 16 June 1884) was a Swedish naturalist and geologist. He was the first to publish quantitative analysis of pollen and is counted as one of the founders of palynology. Pic. | |||
||1888 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925) | ||1888 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (d. 1925) | ||
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1522: Mathematician Johannes Stöffler uses Gnomon algorithm functions to predict and prevent Crimes against mathematical constants.
1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo born. He will write Elim (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1806: Physician, scientist, and inventor Edward Davy born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.
1839: Mathematician Julius Petersen born. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
1915: Mathematician and academic John Tukey born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.