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||1792: John Smeaton dies ... engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge. EXISTS - Pic. | ||1792: John Smeaton dies ... engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge. EXISTS - Pic. | ||
||1794: Robert Liston born ... surgeon. Liston was noted for his skill in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival. | ||1794: Robert Liston born ... surgeon. Liston was noted for his skill in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival. Pic. | ||
||1804: Pierre François Verhulst born ... mathematician and theorist. | ||1804: Pierre François Verhulst born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||
||1841: Johan August Arfwedson dies ... chemist and academic. | ||1841: Johan August Arfwedson dies ... chemist and academic. | ||
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||1014: Richard Laurence Millington Synge born ... biochemist, and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin. Pic. | ||1014: Richard Laurence Millington Synge born ... biochemist, and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin. Pic. | ||
||1916: Cleveland Abbe dies ... meteorologist and academic. | ||1916: Cleveland Abbe dies ... meteorologist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1918: Ulisse Dini dies ... mathematician and politician .... known for his contribution to real analysis. | ||1918: Ulisse Dini dies ... mathematician and politician .... known for his contribution to real analysis. | ||
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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.
1892: Charles-Émile Reynaud performs the first of his Pantomimes Lumineuses shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.
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.