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File:Termómetro_Christin_1743.jpg|link=Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer '''[[Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|Jean-Pierre Christin]]''' born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer.
 
File:Samuel Bentham.jpg|link=Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|1831: Engineer and naval architect '''[[Samuel Bentham (nonfiction)|Samuel Bentham]]''' dies. He designed the first Panopticon.
 
File:Evariste Galois.jpg|link=Évariste Galois (nonfiction)|1832: Mathematician and social activist '''[[Évariste Galois (nonfiction)|Évariste Galois]]''' from wounds suffered in a duel.  While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections.
 
File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1912: Physicist '''[[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]]''' born.  She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved.
 
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  • 1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer.

    1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer.

  • 1831: Engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham dies. He designed the first Panopticon.

    1831: Engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham dies. He designed the first Panopticon.

  • 1832: Mathematician and social activist Évariste Galois from wounds suffered in a duel. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections.

    1832: Mathematician and social activist Évariste Galois from wounds suffered in a duel. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections.

  • 1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved.

    1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved.

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