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• ... that mathematician and physicist '''[[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]]''' introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant in his 1583 book ''Geometria rotundi''? | |||
• ... that mathematician and physicist '''[[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]]''' introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant in his 1583 book ''Geometria rotundi''? | |||
• ... that engineer and inventor '''[[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]]''' built several hand-powered submarines? | • ... that engineer and inventor '''[[Wilhelm Bauer (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Bauer]]''' built several hand-powered submarines? | ||
• ... that physicist '''[[Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|Hendrik Lorentz]]''' shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect, and that the Nobel Foundation wrote: "It may well be said that Lorentz was regarded by all theoretical physicists as the world's leading spirit, who completed what was left unfinished by his predecessors and prepared the ground for the fruitful reception of the new ideas based on the quantum theory."? | • ... that physicist '''[[Hendrik Lorentz (nonfiction)|Hendrik Lorentz]]''' shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect, and that the Nobel Foundation wrote: "It may well be said that Lorentz was regarded by all theoretical physicists as the world's leading spirit, who completed what was left unfinished by his predecessors and prepared the ground for the fruitful reception of the new ideas based on the quantum theory."? | ||
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• ... that mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant in his 1583 book Geometria rotundi?
• ... that engineer and inventor Wilhelm Bauer built several hand-powered submarines?
• ... that physicist Hendrik Lorentz shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect, and that the Nobel Foundation wrote: "It may well be said that Lorentz was regarded by all theoretical physicists as the world's leading spirit, who completed what was left unfinished by his predecessors and prepared the ground for the fruitful reception of the new ideas based on the quantum theory."?