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||1871 – Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948)
||1871 – Harry Brearley, English inventor (d. 1948)
||George Udny Yule (b. 18 February 1871), usually known as Udny Yule, was a British statistician. He will make important contributions to the theory and practice of correlation, regression, and association, as well as to time series analysis. He pioneered the use of preferential attachment stochastic processes to explain the origin of power law distribution. The Yule distribution, a discrete power law, is named after him. Pic.


||1880 – Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (b. 1812)
||1880 – Nikolay Zinin, Russian organic chemist (b. 1812)

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