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||1870 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942) | ||1870 – Jean Baptiste Perrin, French-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1942) | ||
||1882 | File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1882: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]]'s first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States. | ||
||1905 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996) | ||1905 – Nevill Francis Mott, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996) | ||
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1550: Astronomer and mathematician Michael Maestlin born. He will be a mentor to Johannes Kepler, and play a sizable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.
1882: Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.