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||1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic (d. 1972) | ||1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer and academic (d. 1972) | ||
File:George Chrystal.jpg|link=George Chrystal (nonfiction)|1893: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[George Chrystal (nonfiction)|George Chrystal]] publishes evidence that [[Seiche (nonfiction)|seiches]] (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) are vulnerable to both [[crimes against physics]] and [[crimes against chemistry]]. | |||
||1894 – Alexander Lippisch, German-American aerodynamicist and engineer (d. 1976) | ||1894 – Alexander Lippisch, German-American aerodynamicist and engineer (d. 1976) | ||
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1815: Mathematician and philosopher George Boole born. He will work in the fields of differential equations and algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic.
1893: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Chrystal publishes evidence that seiches (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) are vulnerable to both crimes against physics and crimes against chemistry.
1903: George P. Metesky born. He will terrorize New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he plants in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices.