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File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1903: Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] born. He will make seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics. | File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1903: Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] born. He will make seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics. | ||
||Florence Nightingale (d. 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She was a pioneer in the use of infographics, effectively using graphical presentations of statistical data. Pic. | |||
||1912 – Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) | ||1912 – Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) | ||
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1863: Artist Eugène Delacroix dies. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.
1899: Mathematician, economist, and crime-fighter Joseph Louis François Bertrand publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which predict and prevent economic crimes against mathematical constants.
1903: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet born. He will make seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.
1941: Film director and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde raises money for new film by selling shares in the Manhattan Project.
1942: Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.
2017: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon discovers unregistered halting problem, predicts emergence of crimes against mathematical constants.