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||1949 – Friedrich Bergius, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884) | ||1949 – Friedrich Bergius, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884) | ||
||1954: Physicist and academic Fritz Wolfgang London dies. He made fundamental contributions to the theories of chemical bonding and of intermolecular forces (London dispersion forces). With his brother Heinz London, he made a significant contribution to understanding electromagnetic properties of superconductors with the London equations. | |||
||1961 – Philibert Jacques Melotte, English astronomer (b. 1880) | ||1961 – Philibert Jacques Melotte, English astronomer (b. 1880) | ||
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1599: Mathematician Adam Ries dies. He wrote textbooks for practical mathematics, promoting the advantages of Arabic/Indian numerals over Roman numerals.
1811: Chemist and academic Robert Bunsen born. He will investigate emission spectra of heated elements, and discover caesium (in 1860) and rubidium (in 1861) with the physicist Gustav Kirchhoff.
1886: Mathematician, philosopher, and logician Stanisław Leśniewski born. He will posit three nested formal systems, to which he will give the Greek-derived names of protothetic, ontology, and mereology.
1892: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach born. He will be one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
1939: Hellscreiber teleprinter system used to publish new biography of mathematician Adam Ries.
1942: Der Reichsspritzenmeister develops new memory-wiping drug for Abomynous.
2015: Asclepius Myrmidon discovers unregistered halting problem, predicts new class of crimes against mathematical constants.