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||1900: Eugenio Beltrami dies ... mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics. His work was noted especially for clarity of exposition.  
||1900: Eugenio Beltrami dies ... mathematician notable for his work concerning differential geometry and mathematical physics. His work was noted especially for clarity of exposition.  
||1913: Chemist Frederick Soddy introduced the term "isotope". Soddy was an English chemist and physicist who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1921 for investigating radioactive substances. He suggested that different elements produced in different radioactive transformations were capable of occupying the same place on the Periodic Table, and on 18 Feb 1913 he named such species "isotopes" from Greek words meaning "same place." He is credited, along with others, with the discovery of the element protactinium in 1917. *TIS https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-18.html Pic.


||1919: Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III born ... mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science.
||1919: Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III born ... mathematician, natural philosopher, and historian of science.

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