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||1904 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) | ||1904 – Wendell Meredith Stanley, American biochemist and virologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1971) | ||
||Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, KCB FRS (d. 16 August 1920), known simply as Norman Lockyer, was an English scientist and astronomer. Along with the French scientist Pierre Janssen he is credited with discovering the gas helium. Lockyer also is remembered for being the founder and first editor of the influential journal Nature. Pic. | |||
||1920 – Charles Bukowski, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1994) | ||1920 – Charles Bukowski, American poet, novelist, and short story writer (d. 1994) | ||
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1650: Monk, cosmographer, and cartographer Vincenzo Coronelli born. He will gain fame for his atlases and globes; some of the globes will be very large and highly detailed.
1694: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Christiaan Huygens reveals in autobiography that he uses statistical analysis and games of chance to catch math criminals in the act.
1705: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli dies. He discovered the fundamental mathematical constant e, and made important contributions to the field of probability.
1821: Mathematician and academic Arthur Cayley born. He will be the first to define the concept of a group in the modern way, as a set with a binary operation satisfying certain laws.
1899: Chemist and academic Robert Bunsen dies. He investigated emission spectra of heated elements, and discovered caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
2017: Researchers publish new evidence that "suicide-by-Ultravore" is on the rise.