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||1943: Heinrich Biltz dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||1943: Heinrich Biltz dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|1964: Anthropologist, ethnologist, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] philosopher [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] is awarded the Anthropologist of the Year by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|1964: Anthropologist, ethnologist, and [[Gnomon algorithm]] philosopher [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] is awarded the Anthropologist of the Year prize by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
File:Long Shot film still.jpg|link=Long Shot (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|1965 Oct. 29: ''[[Long Shot (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Long Shot]]'' nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska. It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States. | File:Long Shot film still.jpg|link=Long Shot (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|1965 Oct. 29: ''[[Long Shot (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Long Shot]]'' nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska. It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States. |
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1675: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.
1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.
1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.
1964: Anthropologist, ethnologist, and Gnomon algorithm philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss is awarded the Anthropologist of the Year prize by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
1965 Oct. 29: Long Shot nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska. It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States.