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||Josef Lense (b. October 28, 1890) was an Austrian physicist. Lense, together with Hans Thirring, is known as one of the two discoverers of the Lense-Thirring effect. | ||Josef Lense (b. October 28, 1890) was an Austrian physicist. Lense, together with Hans Thirring, is known as one of the two discoverers of the Lense-Thirring effect. | ||
||1893: Christopher Kelk Ingold born ... chemist based in Leeds and London. His groundbreaking work in the 1920s and 1930s on reaction mechanisms and the electronic structure of organic compounds was responsible for the introduction into mainstream chemistry of concepts such as nucleophile, electrophile, inductive and resonance effects, and such descriptors as SN1, SN2, E1, and E2. Pic. | |||
||1905 – Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician (d. 1984) | ||1905 – Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician (d. 1984) | ||
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1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Jean le Rond d'Alembert uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to crimes against mathematical constants.
2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
Illustration of Cantor Parabola contains "several terabytes of encrypted data," according to new steganographic analysis.