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||Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch (b. 14 October 1840) was a German physicist who investigated the conductive properties of electrolytes and contributed to knowledge of their behaviour. He also investigated elasticity, thermoelasticity, and thermal conduction as well as magnetic and electrical precision measurements. | ||Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch (b. 14 October 1840) was a German physicist who investigated the conductive properties of electrolytes and contributed to knowledge of their behaviour. He also investigated elasticity, thermoelasticity, and thermal conduction as well as magnetic and electrical precision measurements. | ||
||Marcus Beck (b. 14 October 1843) was a British professor of surgery at University College Hospital. He was an early proponent of the germ theory of disease and promoted the discoveries of Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, and Joseph Lister in surgical literature of the time. | |||
||Alessandro Padoa (b. 14 October 1868) was an Italian mathematician and logician, a contributor to the school of Giuseppe Peano. He is remembered for a method for deciding whether, given some formal theory, a new primitive notion is truly independent of the other primitive notions. | ||Alessandro Padoa (b. 14 October 1868) was an Italian mathematician and logician, a contributor to the school of Giuseppe Peano. He is remembered for a method for deciding whether, given some formal theory, a new primitive notion is truly independent of the other primitive notions. | ||
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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.
1948: Musician and physicist J. R. Oppenheimer performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
2010: Mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot dies.
