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||1783: William Sturgeon born ... physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor. Pic. | ||1783: William Sturgeon born ... physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor. Pic. | ||
||1803: Chemist Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann born. He patented the reaction for converting ammonia to nitric acid, which was later used in the Ostwald process. Pic. | |||
||1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri. | ||1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri. |
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1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.
1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.
1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter Franz Ernst Neumann uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.
1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.
2009: Pond At Dawn voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.