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||1902 – Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and academic (d. 2003) | ||1902 – Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and academic (d. 2003) | ||
||1915 | File:Clifford Shull 1949.jpg|link=Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|1915: Physicist and academic [[Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|Clifford Shull]] born. He will share the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Canadian Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique. | ||
||1926 – André Cassagnes, French toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (d. 2013) | ||1926 – André Cassagnes, French toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch (d. 2013) | ||
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1877: Mathematician and astronomer Urbain Le Verrier dies. He predicted the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics, an event widely regarded as one of the most remarkable moments of 19th century science.
1915: Physicist and academic Clifford Shull born. He will share the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Canadian Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique.