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||1890 – E. E. Smith, American engineer and author (d. 1965) | ||1890 – E. E. Smith, American engineer and author (d. 1965) | ||
|| | ||Frank Byron Rowlett (b. May 2, 1908) was an American cryptologist. | ||
||1915 – Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (b. 1870) | ||1915 – Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (b. 1870) | ||
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||1979 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) | ||1979 – Giulio Natta, Italian chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) | ||
||Salomon Bochner (d. 2 May 1982) was an American mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis, probability theory and differential geometry. | |||
File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]]: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster. | File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|Chernobyl disaster]]: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster. | ||
Revision as of 15:14, 2 December 2017
1196: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, and the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1519: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
1779: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler publishes treatise on mathematical terminology and notation for use in detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson born.
1986: Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
