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||1917: William David McElroy born ... biochemist and academic administrator. He initiated an independent research program in bioluminescence, recruiting students to collect fireflies to perform experiments. He discovered the key role that luciferase and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) play in the process. Pic.
||1917: William David McElroy born ... biochemist and academic administrator. He initiated an independent research program in bioluminescence, recruiting students to collect fireflies to perform experiments. He discovered the key role that luciferase and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) play in the process. Pic.
||1921: Mathematician Marie Georges Humbert dies ... worked on Kummer surfaces and the Appell–Humbert theorem and introduced Humbert surfaces.  Pic.


||1922: Camille Jordan dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
||1922: Camille Jordan dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.

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