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||1748: Thomas Lowndes dies ... astronomer and academic. No DOB. No pics online.
||1748: Thomas Lowndes dies ... astronomer and academic. No DOB. No pics online.


||1803: Justus von Liebig born ... chemist and academic ... made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and was considered the founder of organic chemistry.[3] As a professor at the University of Giessen, he devised the modern laboratory-oriented teaching method, and for such innovations, he is regarded as one of the greatest chemistry teachers of all time.[4] He has been described as the "father of the fertilizer industry" for his emphasis on nitrogen and trace minerals as essential plant nutrients, and his formulation of the law of the minimum, which described how plant growth relied on the scarcest nutrient resource, rather than the total amount of resources available. Pic.
||1803: Justus von Liebig born ... chemist and academic ... made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and was considered the founder of organic chemistry. As a professor at the University of Giessen, he devised the modern laboratory-oriented teaching method, and for such innovations, he is regarded as one of the greatest chemistry teachers of all time. He has been described as the "father of the fertilizer industry" for his emphasis on nitrogen and trace minerals as essential plant nutrients, and his formulation of the law of the minimum, which described how plant growth relied on the scarcest nutrient resource, rather than the total amount of resources available. Pic.


||1806: Georg Adolf Erman born ... physicist. Pic.
||1806: Georg Adolf Erman born ... physicist. Pic.
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||1878: Anselme Payen dies ... chemist and academic ... known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose. Pic.
||1878: Anselme Payen dies ... chemist and academic ... known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose. Pic.


||1895: William Giauque born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1895: William Giauque born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1897: Ross Gunn born ... physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. The New York Times described him as "one of the true fathers of the nuclear submarine program". Pic.
||1897: Ross Gunn born ... physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. The New York Times described him as "one of the true fathers of the nuclear submarine program". Pic.


||1900: Joseph John Rochefort born ... American Naval officer and cryptanalyst. His contributions and those of his team were pivotal to victory in the Pacific War. Rochefort was a major figure in the United States Navy's cryptographic and intelligence operations from 1925 to 1946, particularly in the Battle of Midway.
||1900: Joseph Rochefort born ... American Naval officer and cryptanalyst. His contributions and those of his team were pivotal to victory in the Pacific War. Rochefort was a major figure in the United States Navy's cryptographic and intelligence operations from 1925 to 1946, particularly in the Battle of Midway. Pic.


||1906: William Maurice "Doc" Ewing born ... geophysicist and oceanographer.  
||1906: William Maurice "Doc" Ewing born ... geophysicist and oceanographer.  

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