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||1886 – Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) | ||1886 – Robert Robinson, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1975) | ||
||Arthur Amos Noyes (b. September 13, 1866) was a U.S. chemist, educator, and inventor. Along with Willis Rodney Whitney, he formulated the Noyes–Whitney equation, which relates the rate of dissolution of solids to the properties of the solid and the dissolution medium. Pic. | |||
||1887 – Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976) | ||1887 – Leopold Ružička, Croatian-Swiss biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1976) | ||
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1592: Philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
1873: Mathematician and author Constantin Carathéodory born. He will pioneer the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.
1898: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.
1900: Social activist and alleged superhero The Governess shames math criminals into returning stolen digits, paying compensation for lost computational power, and personally apologizing to everyone who was inconvenienced by this sorry episode of bad behavior, which will never be repeated.
2014: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Military contractors call technique "Astonishing breakthrough."