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File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1608: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei, Crime Fighter|1608: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1742 – Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
||1742: Friedrich Hoffmann dies ... physician and chemist.


||1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, French astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris (b. 1736)
||1746: Jacques Alexandre César Charles born ... inventor, scientist, mathematician, and balloonist. Pic.


||1793 – Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz, Livonian physician and botanist (d. 1831) traveller
||1793: Jean Sylvain Bailly dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and politician, 1st Mayor of Paris.


||Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (b. 12 November 1833) was a Russian Romantic composer of Georgian-Russian origin, as well as a doctor and chemist. Pic.
||1793: Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz born ... physician and botanist ... traveller


||1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator, created The Thinker (d. 1917)
||1833: Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin born ... composer of Georgian-Russian origin, as well as a doctor and chemist. Pic.


||1842 – John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM, PC, PRS (/ˈreɪli/; 12 November 1842 – 30 June 1919) was a physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, which can be used to explain why the sky is blue, and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves.
||1840: Auguste Rodin born ... sculptor and illustrator, created The Thinker.


||1847 – William Christopher Zeise, Danish chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds (b. 1789)
||1842: John William Strutt born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... with William Ramsay, discovered argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, which can be used to explain why the sky is blue, and predicted the existence of the surface waves now known as Rayleigh waves.


||1902 – William Henry Barlow, English engineer (b. 1812)
||1847: William Christopher Zeise dies ... chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds.
 
||1902: William Henry Barlow dies ... engineer.


||Ogden Nicholas Rood (d. 12 November 1902) was an American physicist best known for his work in color theory. Pic.
||Ogden Nicholas Rood (d. 12 November 1902) was an American physicist best known for his work in color theory. Pic.

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