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||1928 – Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (d. 2001) | ||1928 – Jacques-Louis Lions, French mathematician (d. 2001) | ||
||Margaret Eliza Maltby (d. 3 May 1944) was an American physicist notable for measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions. | |||
||1947 – Doug Henning, Canadian magician (d. 2000) | ||1947 – Doug Henning, Canadian magician (d. 2000) | ||
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1779: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop dies. He was one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.
1848: Inventor David Brewster demonstrates his "lenticular stereoscope" (the first portable, 3D viewing device), now widely used in modern scrying engines.
1860: Mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra born. He will be one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.
1890: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla uses radio waves to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1910: Havelock and Nikola Tesla share Nobel Prize in Physics for research into electrical field modulation and data transmission.