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||1809: Johann Friedrich August Göttling born ... chemist. Pic (document). | ||1809: Johann Friedrich August Göttling born ... chemist. Pic (document). | ||
||1835: William Stanley Jevons born ... economist and logician. | ||1835: William Stanley Jevons born ... economist and logician. Pic. | ||
||1856: Sergei Winogradsky (b. 1 September 1856) was a Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the cycle-of-life concept. Pic. | ||1856: Sergei Winogradsky (b. 1 September 1856) was a Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the cycle-of-life concept. Pic. | ||
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||1861: Lazăr Edeleanu born ... chemist of Jewish origin. He is known for being the first chemist to synthesize amphetamine at the University of Berlin and for inventing the modern method of refining crude oil. | ||1861: Lazăr Edeleanu born ... chemist of Jewish origin. He is known for being the first chemist to synthesize amphetamine at the University of Berlin and for inventing the modern method of refining crude oil. | ||
||1877: Francis William Aston born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1877: Francis William Aston born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1889: Elmer Tiling Cunningham born ... entrepreneur and businessman, specializing in vacuum tubes and radio manufacturing. He is best known for being the most successful business person to produce unlicensed counterfeit vacuum tubes. Pic tube. | ||1889: Elmer Tiling Cunningham born ... entrepreneur and businessman, specializing in vacuum tubes and radio manufacturing. He is best known for being the most successful business person to produce unlicensed counterfeit vacuum tubes. Pic tube. | ||
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1599: Explorer Cornelis de Houtman dies. He discovered a new sea route from Europe to Indonesia, beginning the Dutch spice trade.
1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1938: Asclepius Myrmidon publishes On Halting Problems, about the computational and medical problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the program will finish running or continue to run forever.
1944: Mathematician and crime fighter Stefan Banach publishes new theory of modern functional analysis which enables mathematicians to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1982: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry dies. He is known for his work in combinatory logic.
2017: Signed first edition of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge sells for two and a half million dollars.