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||1803 – Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic (d. 1873) | ||1803 – Justus von Liebig, German chemist and academic (d. 1873) | ||
||Alexander William Williamson (b. 1 May 1824) was an English chemist of Scottish descent. He is best known today for the Williamson ether synthesis. Pic. | |||
File:Johann Jakob Balmer.jpg|link=Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|1825: Mathematician and physicist [[Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|Johann Jakob Balmer]] born. He will develop an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom. | File:Johann Jakob Balmer.jpg|link=Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|1825: Mathematician and physicist [[Johann Jakob Balmer (nonfiction)|Johann Jakob Balmer]] born. He will develop an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom. | ||
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1825: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer born. He will develop an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.
1891: Inventor Herman Hollerith uses census data to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1960: Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
1961: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon warns that U-2 incident may have released a new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1970: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley dies. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory.