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||1865 – Wilbur Scoville, American chemist and pharmacist (d. 1942)
||1865 – Wilbur Scoville, American chemist and pharmacist (d. 1942)
||Sir William Snow Harris (d. January 1867) was an English physician and electrical researcher,[1] nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris,[2] and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships. It took many years of campaigning, research and successful testing before the British Royal Navy changed to Harris's conductors from their previous less effective system. One of the successful test vessels was HMS Beagle which survived lightning strikes unharmed on her famous voyage with Charles Darwin. No pic (Beagle).


||1880 – Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1956)
||1880 – Frigyes Riesz, Hungarian mathematician and academic (d. 1956)

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