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||1779: Jeremiah Dixon born ... surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason–Dixon line. Pic: grave marker.
||1779: Jeremiah Dixon born ... surveyor and astronomer who is best known for his work with Charles Mason, from 1763 to 1767, in determining what was later called the Mason–Dixon line. Pic: grave marker.
||1799: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure dies ... physicist and meteorologist ... often called the founder of alpinism and modern meteorology, and considered to be the first person to build a successful solar oven. Pic.


||1840: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach dies ... physician, physiologist, and anthropologist. Pic.
||1840: Johann Friedrich Blumenbach dies ... physician, physiologist, and anthropologist. Pic.
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||1866: Gustav de Vries born ... mathematician, who is best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation with Diederik Korteweg. Pic.
||1866: Gustav de Vries born ... mathematician, who is best remembered for his work on the Korteweg–de Vries equation with Diederik Korteweg. Pic.


||1867: William Snow Harris dies ... physician and electrical researcher, nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris, and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships. It took many years of campaigning, research and successful testing before the British Royal Navy changed to Harris's conductors from their previous less effective system. One of the successful test vessels was HMS Beagle which survived lightning strikes unharmed on her famous voyage with Charles Darwin. No pic (Beagle).
||1867: William Snow Harris dies ... physician and electrical researcher, nicknamed Thunder-and-Lightning Harris, and noted for his invention of a successful system of lightning conductors for ships. It took many years of campaigning, research and successful testing before the British Royal Navy changed to Harris's conductors from their previous less effective system. One of the successful test vessels was HMS Beagle which survived lightning strikes unharmed on her famous voyage with Charles Darwin. Pic: Beagle.


||1874: Leonard Eugene Dickson born ... was an American mathematician. He was one of the first American researchers in abstract algebra, in particular the theory of finite fields and classical groups, and is also remembered for a three-volume history of number theory, History of the Theory of Numbers. Pic not Wikipedia.
||1874: Leonard Eugene Dickson born ... was an American mathematician. He was one of the first American researchers in abstract algebra, in particular the theory of finite fields and classical groups, and is also remembered for a three-volume history of number theory, History of the Theory of Numbers. Pic not Wikipedia.

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