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||1748: Rev Prof John Playfair born ... Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Pic. | ||1748: Rev Prof John Playfair born ... Church of Scotland minister, remembered as a scientist and mathematician, and a professor of natural philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. Pic. | ||
||1762: Jean Calas executed ... merchant living in Toulouse, France, who was tried, tortured and executed for the murder of his son, despite his protestations of innocence. Calas was a Protestant in an officially Roman Catholic society. Doubts about his guilt were raised by opponents of the Catholic Church and he was exonerated in 1764. In France, he became a symbolic victim of religious intolerance, along with François-Jean de la Barre and Pierre-Paul Sirven. Pic. | |||
||1762: Jeremias Benjamin Richter born ... chemist. He is known for introducing the term stoichiometry. Pic. | ||1762: Jeremias Benjamin Richter born ... chemist. He is known for introducing the term stoichiometry. Pic. | ||
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1262: First use of Yui's triangle to compute the APTO Accords.
1604: Alchemist and chemist Johann Rudolf Glauber born. He will be an early industrial chemical engineer.
1604: Mathematician and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei prevents alleged supervillain Anarchimedes from kidnapping the newborn Johann Rudolf Glauber. Anarchimedes intended to raise Glauber in captivity, taking credit for Glauber's chemical research.
1670: Alchemist and chemist Johann Rudolf Glauber dies. He was an early industrial chemical engineer.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1923: Physicist and academic Val Logsdon Fitch born. He will share the 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics with co-researcher James Cronin for a 1964 experiment which proves that certain subatomic reactions do not adhere to fundamental symmetry principles (CP violation).
1936: Inventor and crime-fighter Philo Farnsworth invents an early form of all-electronic scrying engine which detects and exposes transdimensional corporations.
1961: Karl Jones born.
1967: Engineer, inventor, and crime-fighter Charles William Oatley invents new type of scanning electron microscope which detects and prevents crimes against physical constants.
2006: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the eleventh anniversary of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arriving at Mars.
2016: Embassy by Karl Jones is voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.