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||Robert Williams Wood (b. 1868) was an American physicist and inventor. He is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to the field of optics and a pioneer of infrared and ultraviolet photography. | ||Robert Williams Wood (b. 1868) was an American physicist and inventor. He is often cited as being a pivotal contributor to the field of optics and a pioneer of infrared and ultraviolet photography. | ||
||Mauro Picone (b. 2 May 1885) was an Italian mathematician. He is known for the Picone identity, and the Sturm-Picone comparison theorem. He was also an outstanding teacher of mathematical analysis: some of the best Italian mathematicians were among his pupils. Pic. | |||
||1890 – E. E. Smith, American engineer and author (d. 1965) | ||1890 – E. E. Smith, American engineer and author (d. 1965) | ||
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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.
