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File:James Prescott Joule.jpg|link=James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|1889: Physicist and brewer [[James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|James Prescott Joule]] dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work. | File:James Prescott Joule.jpg|link=James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|1889: Physicist and brewer [[James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|James Prescott Joule]] dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work. | ||
||1903: Kazimierz Kordylewski born ... was a Polish astronomer. In 1956 he claimed the discovery of the Kordylewski clouds which are believed to be large transient concentrations of dust at the Trojan points of the Earth-Moon system. The existence of the clouds is still contested. Pic. | |||
||1910: Cahit Arf born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1910: Cahit Arf born ... mathematician and academic. |
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1708: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus dies. He invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation.
1851: Famed gem detective and crime-fighter Niles Cartouchian (1900s) accuses rival gem detective Egon Rhodomunde of trafficking in illegal time crystals.
1889: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1940: Mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.
1965: Documentary photography and photojournalist Dorothea Lange dies.
2002: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde accuses actor-crytographer Niles Cartouchian of trafficking in illegal time crystals.
2016: Signed first edition of Spiral Rings 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.