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||1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory. | ||1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory. | ||
||Corrado Segre (b. 20 August 1863) was an Italian mathematician who is remembered today as a major contributor to the early development of algebraic geometry. | |||
||1915 – Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854) | ||1915 – Paul Ehrlich, German physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1854) | ||
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1672: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt dies in a riot. The rioters will partially eat his body.
1923: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1961: Physicist and academic Percy Williams Bridgman dies. He won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures.
1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.