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||1788: Archaeologist and antiquary Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes born ... notable for his discovery, in about 1830, of flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley. Pic. | ||1788: Archaeologist and antiquary Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes born ... notable for his discovery, in about 1830, of flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley. Pic. | ||
||1797: Carl Gustaf Mosander born ... chemist. He discovered the elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium. Pic. | ||1797: Carl Gustaf Mosander born ... chemist. He discovered the elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium. Pic. | ||
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1749: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet born. She translated and commented upon on Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.
1849: Mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce born. He wil be remembered as "the father of pragmatism".
1888: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule uses the nature of heat, and its relationship to mechanical work, to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1892: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton born. He will win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, demonstrating the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
1975: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on the uncertainty principle which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1975: Mathematician, computer scientist, and crime-fighter Andrzej Trybulec uses the Mizar system to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1976: Screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo dies. He was blacklisted for refusing testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947; while blacklisted, he won Academy Awards for two films: Roman Holiday, attributed to a front author, and The Brave One under the pseudonym Robert Rich.
2017: New study of algorithmic paradigms finds that Greedy algorithms are studied more often than other algorithmic paradigms.
2018: Red Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
