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||1836: Alexander Mitscherlich born ... chemist and academic. His most important work was in the field of processing wood to create cellulose. He patented an early version of the sulfite process in 1882. Pic. | ||1836: Alexander Mitscherlich born ... chemist and academic. His most important work was in the field of processing wood to create cellulose. He patented an early version of the sulfite process in 1882. Pic. | ||
||1843: Noah Webster dies ... lexicographer. | ||1843: Noah Webster dies ... lexicographer. Pic. | ||
||1858: Carl Richard Nyberg born ... inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch. | ||1858: Carl Richard Nyberg born ... inventor and businessman, developed the blow torch. | ||
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1829: Army officer, trader, and lecturer John Cleves Symmes, Jr. dies. He invented a variant of the Hollow Earth Theory, with openings to the inner world at the poles.
1936: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1974: Euglena Junction wins the Prime Time Emmy for Best New Show. Broadcasting live from the Pantages Theater via NBC, host Johnny Carson calls it "an extraordinary study of the genus Euglena, and a brilliant parody of Petticoat Junction."
2015: Information scientist Claire Kelly Schultz dies.
2016: Signed first edition of Ringmaster stolen from the Guggenheim by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.