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File:Thomas Seebeck.jpg|link=Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|1770: Physicist and academic [[Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|Thomas Johann Seebeck]] born. He will discover the thermoelectric effect. | File:Thomas Seebeck.jpg|link=Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|1770: Physicist and academic [[Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|Thomas Johann Seebeck]] born. He will discover the thermoelectric effect. | ||
||George Peacock (b. 9 April 1791) was an English mathematician. | |||
||Isambard Kingdom Brunel FRS (b. 9 April 1806), was an English mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history" | ||Isambard Kingdom Brunel FRS (b. 9 April 1806), was an English mechanical and civil engineer who is considered "one of the most ingenious and prolific figures in engineering history" | ||
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1770: Physicist and academic Thomas Johann Seebeck born. He will discover the thermoelectric effect.
1864: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen uses X-rays generator to expose loaded dice, reveals organized math crime cartel in casinos around the world.
1865: Mathematician and electrical engineer Charles Proteus Steinmetz born. He will foster the development of alternating current, formulating mathematical theories which will advance the expansion of the electric power industry in the United States.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1978: Musician and alleged math criminal Skip Digits performs at the Kennedy Center for the Arts.