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1678: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan born. His observations and experiments will inspire the beginning of what will be known as the study of biological circadian rhythms.
1753: Mathematician and APTO theorist Abraham de Moivre publishes new edition of his book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, with an addendum on applications of Gnomon algorithm functions to the psychology of crimes against mathematical constants.
2011: The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.

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 ||1810: William George Armstrong born ... industrialist who founded the Armstrong Whitworth manufacturing concern on Tyneside. He was also an eminent scientist, inventor and philanthropist. In collaboration with the architect Richard Norman Shaw, he built Cragside in Northumberland, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. He is regarded as the inventor of modern artillery. Pic.
-||1817: Charles Adolphe Wurtz born ... chemist. He is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds
+||1817: Charles Adolphe Wurtz born ... chemist. He is best remembered for his decades-long advocacy for the atomic theory and for ideas about the structures of chemical compounds. Pic.
-||1832: Rudolph Koenig born ... physicist and academic.
+||1832: Rudolph Koenig born ... physicist and academic.  He was a pioneer of acoustical physics and engineering; his Koenig sound analyzer revolutionized musical and scientific worlds by demonstrated visually that musical notes and voices were in fact made up of simple sounds. Pic.
 ||1836: John Loudon McAdam dies ... engineer.