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||1876 – Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist and academic (d. 1956). Pic. | ||1876 – Willem Hendrik Keesom, Dutch physicist and academic (d. 1956). Pic. | ||
||Henri Édouard Tresca (d. 21 June 1885) was a French mechanical engineer and academic. He is the father of the field of plasticity, or non-recoverable deformations. Pic. | |||
||1887 – Norman L. Bowen, Canadian geologist and petrologist (d. 1956) | ||1887 – Norman L. Bowen, Canadian geologist and petrologist (d. 1956) | ||
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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.
