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||1786 Pierru-Dominique Bazaine born - scientist and engineer. | |||
||1845 – Félix Tisserand, French astronomer and academic (d. 1896) | ||1845 – Félix Tisserand, French astronomer and academic (d. 1896) |
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524: The Nika riots in Constantinople, with nearly half the city being burned or destroyed and tens of thousands of people killed.
1876: Mathematician Erhard Schmidt born. He will make important contributions to functional analysis and modern set theory.
1881: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred North Whitehead uses advances in process philosophy to compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1898: Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
1902: Mathematician Karl Menger born. He will work on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.
1906 Jan. 13: Physicist and academic Alexander Stepanovich Popov dies. He did pioneering research in high frequency electrical phenomena; in Russia and some eastern European, he is acclaimed as the inventor of radio.
1924: Physicist and academic Georg Hermann Quincke dies. He conducted prolonged research on the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.