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||1914: Raymond Davis Jr. born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1914: Raymond Davis Jr. born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1918: Marcel Chaput born ... biochemist, journalist, and a militant for the independence of Quebec from Canada. Along with some 20 other people including André D'Allemagne and Jacques Bellemare, he was a founding member of the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale (RIN). Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=marcel+chaput | |||
||1932: Anatoly Larkin born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||1932: Anatoly Larkin born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
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1831: Astronomer Jean-Louis Pons dies. He was the greatest visual comet discoverer of all time: between 1801 and 1827, Pons discovered thirty-seven comets, more than any other person in history.
1881: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes calls Extract of Radium "a plague on all living things, and a curse on civilization."
1884: Inventor George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
2010: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies. Mandelbrot was a pioneer of fractal geometry: he coined the word "fractal" and discovered the Mandelbrot set.
2016: Blue City Sunset voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2019: An artificial intelligence based on the mind of Benoit Mandelbrot gives an impromptu lecture at the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada.
