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||1841: Johan August Arfwedson dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||1841: Johan August Arfwedson dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1845: Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski born ... physicist and chemist. | ||1845: Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski born ... physicist and chemist. Pic. | ||
||1871: Quirino Majorana born ... experimental physicist who investigated a wide range of phenomena | ||1871: Quirino Majorana born ... experimental physicist who investigated a wide range of phenomena | ||
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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.