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||1874: Peter Andreas Hansen dies ... astronomer and mathematician. | ||1874: Peter Andreas Hansen dies ... astronomer and mathematician. | ||
||1889: William Howard Livens born ... engineer, a soldier in the British Army and an inventor particularly known for the design of chemical warfare and flame warfare weapons. Resourceful and clever, Livens’ successful creations were characterised by being very practical and easy to produce in large numbers. Livens is best known for inventing the Livens Projector, a simple mortar-like weapon that could throw large drums filled with inflammable or toxic chemicals. Pic. | |||
||1892: Corneille Heymans born ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... blood brain | ||1892: Corneille Heymans born ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... blood brain | ||
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1794: Philosopher, mathematician, and early political scientist Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet dies. His ideas and writings were said to embody the ideals of the Age of Enlightenment and rationalism, and remain influential to this day.
1926: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1928: Mathematician and theorist Alexander Grothendieck born. He will become the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.
1943: Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition) nominated for Nobel Anti-Peace Prize.
2013: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box dies. He has been called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
2018: Signed first edition of Electrical Storm stolen from the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.