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||1817: Martin Heinrich Klaproth dies ... chemist and academic ... discovered uranium (1789), zirconium (1789), and cerium (1803), and named titanium (1795) and tellurium (1798). Pic.
||1817: Martin Heinrich Klaproth dies ... chemist and academic ... discovered uranium (1789), zirconium (1789), and cerium (1803), and named titanium (1795) and tellurium (1798). Pic.
||1852: John George Children dies ... chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist. He invented a method to extract silver from ore without the need for mercury. Pic.


||1852: Eugène-Anatole Demarçay born ... chemist. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas. During an experiment, an explosion destroyed the sight in one of his eyes. He isolated the element europium in 1896; in 1898 he used his skills of spectroscopy to help Marie Curie confirm that she had discovered the element radium. Pic.
||1852: Eugène-Anatole Demarçay born ... chemist. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas. During an experiment, an explosion destroyed the sight in one of his eyes. He isolated the element europium in 1896; in 1898 he used his skills of spectroscopy to help Marie Curie confirm that she had discovered the element radium. Pic.


||1854: James George Frazer born ... anthropologist and academic.
||1854: James George Frazer born ... anthropologist and academic. Pic.


||1859: Michael Joseph Owens born ... inventor.
||1859: Michael Joseph Owens born ... inventor.

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  • 1548: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno born. He will be burned at the stake (17 February 1600).

    1548: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno born. He will be burned at the stake (17 February 1600).

  • 1671: Mathematician Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus removes intermediate terms from a given algebraic equation using Gnomon algorithm techniques.

    1671: Mathematician Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus removes intermediate terms from a given algebraic equation using Gnomon algorithm techniques.

  • 1748: Mathematician Johann Bernouli dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.

    1748: Mathematician Johann Bernouli dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.

  • 1891: Astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered a "stellar object" that moved against the background of stars. At first he thought it was a fixed star, but once he noticed that it moved, he became convinced it was a planet, or as he called it, "a new star", now known as the dwarf planet Ceres.

    1891: Astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered a "stellar object" that moved against the background of stars. At first he thought it was a fixed star, but once he noticed that it moved, he became convinced it was a planet, or as he called it, "a new star", now known as the dwarf planet Ceres.

  • 1862: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada).

    1862: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada).

  • 1878: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang born. He will invent the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.

    1878: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang born. He will invent the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.

  • 1893: telephone switchboard technology modified to send and receive Gnomon algorithm data.

    1893: telephone switchboard technology modified to send and receive Gnomon algorithm data.

  • 1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

    1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.

  • 1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series wins Pulitzer Prize.

    1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series wins Pulitzer Prize.

  • 1992: Computer scientist and Admiral Grace Hopper dies. She pioneered computer programming techniques, inventing one of the first compilers, and popularizing machine-independent programming languages (leading to the development of COBOL).

    1992: Computer scientist and Admiral Grace Hopper dies. She pioneered computer programming techniques, inventing one of the first compilers, and popularizing machine-independent programming languages (leading to the development of COBOL).

  • 2018: Golden Spiral declared Picture of the Year by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2018: Golden Spiral declared Picture of the Year by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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