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||1731: Giovanni Francesco Giuseppe Malfatti, also known as Gian Francesco or Gianfrancesco born ... mathematician. Pic.
||1731: Giovanni Francesco Giuseppe Malfatti, also known as Gian Francesco or Gianfrancesco born ... mathematician. Pic.


||1754: Joseph Louis Proust born ... chemist. He was best known for his discovery of the law of constant composition in 1794, stating that chemical compounds always combine in constant proportions. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Joseph+Louis+Proust
||1754: Joseph Louis Proust born ... chemist. He was best known for his discovery of the law of constant composition in 1794, stating that chemical compounds always combine in constant proportions. Pic search.


||1766: Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi dies ... mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals.  Pic: book cover.
||1766: Giulio Carlo, Count Fagnano, and Marquis de Toschi dies ... mathematician. He was probably the first to direct attention to the theory of elliptic integrals.  Pic: book cover.
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||1910: Thorvald Nicolai Thiele dies ... astronomer and director of the Copenhagen Observatory. He was also an actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem.
||1910: Thorvald Nicolai Thiele dies ... astronomer and director of the Copenhagen Observatory. He was also an actuary and mathematician, most notable for his work in statistics, interpolation and the three-body problem.


||1933: Charles Cameron Conley born ... mathematician who worked on dynamical systems. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Charles+Cameron+Conley
||1933: Charles Cameron Conley born ... mathematician who worked on dynamical systems. Pic search.


File:Edwin Hubble.jpg|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|1943: Astronomer, cosmologist, and crime-fighter [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|Edwin Hubble]] tracks gang of [[Crimes against astronomical constants|astronomical criminals]] to the Andromeda "nebula".
File:Edwin Hubble.jpg|link=Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|1943: Astronomer, cosmologist, and crime-fighter [[Edwin Hubble (nonfiction)|Edwin Hubble]] tracks gang of [[Crimes against astronomical constants|astronomical criminals]] to the Andromeda "nebula".

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