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||1990 – Eliot Porter, American photographer, chemist, and academic (b. 1901) | ||1990 – Eliot Porter, American photographer, chemist, and academic (b. 1901) | ||
||Đuro Kurepa (d. November 2, 1993) was a Yugoslav mathematician. | |||
||2002 – Charles Sheffield, American physicist and author (b. 1935) | ||2002 – Charles Sheffield, American physicist and author (b. 1935) | ||
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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.