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||1795: Anselme Payen born ... chemist and academic ... known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose. Pic. | ||1795: Anselme Payen born ... chemist and academic ... known for discovering the enzyme diastase, and the carbohydrate cellulose. Pic. | ||
File:Erik Laxmann.png|link=Erik Laxmann (nonfiction)|1796: Natural scientist, explorer, and clergyman [[Erik Laxmann (nonfiction)|Erik Laxmann]] dies. Laxmann contribute to the taxonomy of Siberian fauna, and attempted to establish relations between Imperial Russia and Tokugawa Japan. | |||
||1807: Joseph Petzval born ... mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics. Pic. | ||1807: Joseph Petzval born ... mathematician, inventor, and physicist best known for his work in optics. Pic. | ||
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1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.
1796: Natural scientist, explorer, and clergyman Erik Laxmann dies. Laxmann contribute to the taxonomy of Siberian fauna, and attempted to establish relations between Imperial Russia and Tokugawa Japan.
1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.
1990: Physicist and academic Pavel Cherenkov dies. Cherenkov shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in physics in 1958 with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm for the discovery of Cherenkov radiation, made in 1934.
2016: Violet Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.