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||1684: Edme Mariotte born ... physicist and priest. Pic. | ||1684: Edme Mariotte born ... physicist and priest. Pic. | ||
||1748: Thomas Lowndes dies ... astronomer and academic. | ||1748: Thomas Lowndes dies ... astronomer and academic. No DOB. No pics online. | ||
||1803: Justus von Liebig born ... chemist and academic. | ||1803: Justus von Liebig born ... chemist and academic ... made major contributions to agricultural and biological chemistry, and was considered the founder of organic chemistry.[3] As a professor at the University of Giessen, he devised the modern laboratory-oriented teaching method, and for such innovations, he is regarded as one of the greatest chemistry teachers of all time.[4] He has been described as the "father of the fertilizer industry" for his emphasis on nitrogen and trace minerals as essential plant nutrients, and his formulation of the law of the minimum, which described how plant growth relied on the scarcest nutrient resource, rather than the total amount of resources available. Pic. | ||
||1806: Georg Adolf Erman born ... physicist. | ||1806: Georg Adolf Erman born ... physicist. | ||
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||1823: John Russell Hind born ... astronomer. Early discoverer of asteroids. Pic. | ||1823: John Russell Hind born ... astronomer. Early discoverer of asteroids. Pic. | ||
||1838: Jędrzej Śniadecki dies ... writer, physician, chemist and biologist. His achievements include the creation of modern Polish terminology in the field of chemistry. Pic. | |||
||1845: Pierre René Jean Baptiste Henri Brocard born ... meteorologist and mathematician, in particular a geometer. His best-known achievement is the invention and discovery of the properties of the Brocard points, the Brocard circle, and the Brocard triangle, all bearing his name. Pic. | ||1845: Pierre René Jean Baptiste Henri Brocard born ... meteorologist and mathematician, in particular a geometer. His best-known achievement is the invention and discovery of the properties of the Brocard points, the Brocard circle, and the Brocard triangle, all bearing his name. Pic. | ||
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1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or tomorrow.
1855: Mathematician, circus magician, and gentleman detective Jan Kochanowski uses Nebra sky disk to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1856: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet dies. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.
1857: Mathematician Oskar Bolza born. He will be known for his research in the calculus of variations; his work on variations for an integral problem involving inequalities will later became important in control theory.
1907: Mathematician, logician, and crime-fighter Stanisław Leśniewski publishes his philosophy of three nested formal systems and their application to detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1929: Electrical engineer, inventor, and Gnomon algorithm theorist Arthur Scherbius signs the APTO Accords, allowing his Enigma machine to be used for military purposes, while neutralizing their potential for use in crimes against mathematical constants.
1941: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
2014: Painter, sculptor, and set designer H. R. Giger dies. He gained fame for his work on the film Alien.
2017: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel escapes from The Nacreum using a surfboard powered by the gnomon algorithm.
2018: Pinwheel Diagram sells for $500 USD in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.