Template:Are You Sure/October 16

• ... that physicist Gustav Kirchhoff (12 March 1824 – 17 October 1887) contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects; that Kirchhoff coined the term "black body" radiation in 1862; and that two different sets of concepts (one in circuit theory, and one in spectroscopy) are named "Kirchhoff's laws" after him?

• ... that physicist Nicholas Metropolis (11 June 1915 – 17 October 17) led a groups of researchers, including John von Neumann and Stanislaw Ulam, who developed the Monte Carlo method, a statistical approach to deterministic many-body problems?