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||Louis Jacques Thénard (d. 21 June 1857), was a French chemist. | ||Louis Jacques Thénard (d. 21 June 1857), was a French chemist. | ||
||1863 – Max Wolf, German astronomer and academic (d. 1932) | ||1863 – Max Wolf, German astronomer and academic (d. 1932) - a pioneer in the field of astrophotography. He was chairman of astronomy at the University of Heidelberg and director of the Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory from 1902 until his death. Pic. | ||
||1870 – Clara Immerwahr, Jewish-German chemist and academic (d. 1915) | ||1870 – Clara Immerwahr, Jewish-German chemist and academic (d. 1915) | ||
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1652: Architect Inigo Jones dies. He was one of the first architects of the early modern period to employ Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry in his buildings.
1781: Mathematician and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson born. His memoirs on the theory of electricity and magnetism will constitute a new branch of mathematical physics.
1947: Lorenz system diagram develops self-awareness, invents new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1948: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson dies.
1952: Crime-fighter The Governess chastises corrupt accounting firm, compels accountants to return money embezzled from orphan's fund and personally apologize to orphans.
