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||1771 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695) | ||1771 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695) | ||
||1822 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist and academic (b. 1748) Claude Louis Berthollet ( | ||1822 – Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist and academic (b. 1748) Claude Louis Berthollet (d. 6 November 1822 in Arcueil, France) was a Savoyard-French chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804. He is known for his scientific contributions to theory of chemical equilibria via the mechanism of reverse chemical reactions, and for his contribution to modern chemical nomenclature. | ||
File:Alfred Clebsch.jpg|link=Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|1872: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Alfred Clebsch (nonfiction)|Alfred Clebsch]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use algebraic geometry and invariant theory to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1835 – Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist and physician, founded the Italian school of criminology (d. 1909) | ||1835 – Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist and physician, founded the Italian school of criminology (d. 1909) |
Revision as of 22:02, 18 January 2018
1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin dies.
1872: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred Clebsch publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use algebraic geometry and invariant theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1971: The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted.
2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.