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||1914 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995) | ||1914 – Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (d. 1995) | ||
|| | ||Richard Laurence Millington Synge (b. 28 October 1914) was a British biochemist, and shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Archer Martin. Pic. | ||
||1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838) | ||1916 – Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist and academic (b. 1838) | ||
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1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Jean le Rond d'Alembert uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to crimes against mathematical constants.
2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
Illustration of Cantor Parabola contains "several terabytes of encrypted data," according to new steganographic analysis.