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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.

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 ||Sir Charles Vernon Boys, FRS (d. 30 March 1944) was a British physicist, known for his careful and innovative experimental work.
-||1949 – Friedrich Bergius, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
+||Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius (d. 30 March 1949) was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1931, together with Carl Bosch) in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods. Pic.
 ||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.