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||Daniel Hale Williams (b. January 18, 1856) was an African American general surgeon, who in 1893 performed the second documented successful pericardium surgery to repair a wound in the United States of America. He also founded Provident Hospital---the first non-segregated hospital in the United States---in Chicago, Illinois.
||Daniel Hale Williams (b. January 18, 1856) was an African American general surgeon, who in 1893 performed the second documented successful pericardium surgery to repair a wound in the United States of America. He also founded Provident Hospital---the first non-segregated hospital in the United States---in Chicago, Illinois.


||Baron Pierre Charles François Dupin (b. 18 January 1873, Paris, France) was a French Catholic mathematician, engineer, economist[1] and politician, particularly known for work in the field of mathematics, where the Dupin cyclide and Dupin indicatrix are named after him; and for his work in the field of statistical and thematic mapping, In 1826 he created the earliest known choropleth map.
File:Charles Dupin.jpg|link=Charles Dupin (nonfiction)|1873: Mathematician, engineer, cartographer, economist, and politician [[Charles Dupin (nonfiction)|Charles Dupin]] dies. In 1826 created the earliest known choropleth map.


||Alfred Arthur Robb or Alfred A. Robb FRS (18 January 1873 in Belfast) was a Northern Irish physicist.
||Alfred Arthur Robb or Alfred A. Robb FRS (18 January 1873 in Belfast) was a Northern Irish physicist.
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File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1878: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] dies. He pioneered the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1878: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] dies. He pioneered the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.


||Paul Ehrenfest (b. 18 January 1880) was an Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist, who made major contributions to the field of statistical mechanics and its relations with quantum mechanics, including the theory of phase transition[1] and the Ehrenfest theorem.
||Paul Ehrenfest (b. 18 January 1880) was an Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist, who made major contributions to the field of statistical mechanics and its relations with quantum mechanics, including the theory of phase transition and the Ehrenfest theorem.


||1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
||1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.

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