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||1820: Isaac Todhunter born ... mathematician and author ... best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history. Pic. | ||1820: Isaac Todhunter born ... mathematician and author ... best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history. Pic. | ||
||1826: Johann Elert Bode dies ... astronomer known for his reformulation and | ||1826: Johann Elert Bode dies ... astronomer known for his reformulation and popularization of the Titius–Bode law. Bode determined the orbit of Uranus and suggested the planet's name. Pic. | ||
File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|1836: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|1836: Signed first edition of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess'' sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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||1874: Theodore Lyman born ... physicist and spectroscopist. He will make important studies in phenomena connected with diffraction gratings, on the wavelengths of vacuum ultraviolet light discovered by Victor Schumann and also on the properties of light of extremely short wavelength, on all of which he contributed valuable papers to the literature of physics in the proceedings of scientific societies. Pic. | ||1874: Theodore Lyman born ... physicist and spectroscopist. He will make important studies in phenomena connected with diffraction gratings, on the wavelengths of vacuum ultraviolet light discovered by Victor Schumann and also on the properties of light of extremely short wavelength, on all of which he contributed valuable papers to the literature of physics in the proceedings of scientific societies. Pic. | ||
||1882: | ||1882: Mathematician Arnold Dresden born ... known for his work in the calculus of variations and collegiate mathematics education. Pic. | ||
||1887: Henry Moseley born ... physicist and chemist. Pic. | ||1887: Henry Moseley born ... physicist and chemist. Pic. | ||
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1720: Clockmaker Jean-André Lepaute born. He will be an innovator, making numerous improvements to clockmaking, especially his pin-wheel escapement, and his clockworks in which the gears are all in the horizontal plane.
1836: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess sells for twenty thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1837: Theoretical physicist and academic Johannes Diderik van der Waals born. He will win the 1910 Nobel Prize in physics for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids.
1924: Edwin Hubble's discovery, that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way, is first published in The New York Times.
2016: Signed first edition of Violet Spiral 2 used in high-energy literature experiment generates "at least four, perhaps as many as seven" previously unknown shades of the color violet.