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1749: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet born. She translated and commented upon on Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.
1892: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton born. He will win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, demonstrating the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
1976: Screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo dies.

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 File:Emilie Chatelet portrait by Latour.jpg|link=Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|1749: Mathematician and physicist [[Émilie du Châtelet (nonfiction)|Émilie du Châtelet]] born.  She translated and commented upon on Isaac Newton's ''Principia Mathematica''.
-File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1954: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]].
+File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|link=Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|1892:  American physicist and academic [[Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|Arthur Compton]] born. He will win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, demonstrating the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
 File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|1976: Screenwriter and novelist [[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] dies.
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