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||1804: Pierre François Verhulst born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.
||1804: Pierre François Verhulst born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.


||1841: Johan August Arfwedson dies ... chemist and academic. Pic.
File:Johan August Arfwedson.jpg|link=Johan August Arfwedson (nonfiction)|1841: Chemist and academic [[Johan August Arfwedson (nonfiction)|Johan August Arfwedson]] dies. Arfwedson discovered the element lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt.


||1845: Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski born ... physicist and chemist. Pic.
||1845: Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski born ... physicist and chemist. Pic.

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  • 1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.

    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.

    1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Jean le Rond d'Alembert uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1841: Chemist and academic Johan August Arfwedson dies. Arfwedson discovered the element lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt.

    1841: Chemist and academic Johan August Arfwedson dies. Arfwedson discovered the element lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt.

  • 1892: Charles-Émile Reynaud performs the first of his Pantomimes Lumineuses shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.

    1892: Charles-Émile Reynaud performs the first of his Pantomimes Lumineuses shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.

  • 1919: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel born. Ringel will be a pioneer of graph theory and contribute significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (later the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.

    1919: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel born. Ringel will be a pioneer of graph theory and contribute significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (later the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.

  • 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.

    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.

  • 2013: Pond At Dawn voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

    2013: Pond At Dawn voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.

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