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||1771 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695) | ||1771 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695) | ||
||1822 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist and academic (b. 1748) | ||1822 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist and academic (b. 1748) Claude Louis Berthollet (9 December 1748 in Talloires, France – 6 November 1822 in Arcueil, France) was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804.[1] He is known for his scientific contributions to theory of chemical equilibria via the mechanism of reverse chemical reactions, and for his contribution to modern chemical nomenclature. | ||
||1835 – Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist and physician, founded the Italian school of criminology (d. 1909) | ||1835 – Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist and physician, founded the Italian school of criminology (d. 1909) | ||
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1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin dies.
1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted.
2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.