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||1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) | ||1910 – Tjalling Koopmans, Dutch-American mathematician and economist Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985) | ||
|| | ||1916 – C. Wright Mills American sociologist and author (d. 1962) | ||
||1916 – Jack Vance, American author (d. 2013) | |||
||1917 – Jack Kirby, American author and illustrator (d. 1994) | |||
||1918 – L. B. Cole, American illustrator and publisher (d. 1995) | |||
||1919 – Godfrey Hounsfield, English biophysicist and engineer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004) | |||
||1921 – John Herbert Chapman, Canadian physicist and engineer (d. 1979) | |||
||1965 – Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (b. 1909) | ||1965 – Giulio Racah, Italian-Israeli physicist and mathematician (b. 1909) | ||
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1801: Mathematician and philosopher Antoine Augustin Cournot born. He will introduce the ideas of functions and probability into economic analysis.
1966: New study reveals that the Brainiac Explains lecture series is funded by a Brownian racket.
1967: New form of Brownian ratchet discovered.