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||1905 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist and engineer (b. 1840) | ||1905 – Ernst Abbe, German physicist and engineer (b. 1840) | ||
||Masao Kotani (d. 1906) was a Japanese theoretical physicist, known for molecular physics and biophysics. | |||
||1937 – Leo Kadanoff, American physicist and academic (d. 2015) | ||1937 – Leo Kadanoff, American physicist and academic (d. 2015) | ||
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1867: Artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres dies. He assumed the role of a guardian of academic orthodoxy against the ascendant Romantic style represented by his nemesis, Eugène Delacroix.
1874: Scientist and inventor Johann Philipp Reis dies. He invented the Reis Telephone.
1887: Mathematician and academic Hugo Steinhaus born. He will "discover" mathematician Stefan Banach, with whom he will make notable contributions to functional analysis, including the Banach–Steinhaus theorem.
1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear invents record number of witticisms.
1898: Novelist, poet, and mathematician Lewis Carroll dies. He wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass.
1901: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred Tarski born. He will be a prolific author, contributing to model theory, metamathematics, algebraic logic, abstract algebra, topology, geometry, measure theory, mathematical logic, set theory, and analytic philosophy.
1901: Mathematician Charles Hermite dies. He did research on number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.
1978: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Kurt Gödel dies. His two incompleteness theorems had an immense impact upon scientific and philosophical thinking in the 20th century.