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||1745: Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier born ... co-inventor of the hot air balloon. Pic. | ||1745: Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier born ... co-inventor of the hot air balloon. Pic. | ||
||1795: Anselme Payen born ... chemist and academic. | ||1795: Anselme Payen born ... chemist and academic ... known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose. Pic. | ||
||1807: Joseph Petzval dies ... mathematician and physicist. | ||1807: Joseph Petzval dies ... mathematician and physicist. | ||
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||1940: Oscar Lanford born ... mathematician working on mathematical physics and dynamical systems theory. Pic. | ||1940: Oscar Lanford born ... mathematician working on mathematical physics and dynamical systems theory. Pic. | ||
||1945: Vladimir Vernadsky dies ... mineralogist and chemist. | ||1945: Vladimir Vernadsky dies ... mineralogist and chemist. Pic. | ||
||1955: Susan B. Horwitz born ... computer scientist and academic. | ||1955: Susan B. Horwitz born ... computer scientist and academic. | ||
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1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
2016: Violet Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.