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||1845 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (d. 1888) | ||1845 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (d. 1888) | ||
||Josef Lense (b. October 28, 1890) was an Austrian physicist. Lense, together with Hans Thirring, is known as one of the two discoverers of the Lense-Thirring effect. | |||
||1905 – Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician (d. 1984) | ||1905 – Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest, Dutch mathematician (d. 1984) | ||
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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.
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.
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