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||Herbert Hall Turner FRS (d. 20 August 1930) was a British astronomer and seismologist. | ||Herbert Hall Turner FRS (d. 20 August 1930) was a British astronomer and seismologist. | ||
||Edward Weston (d. August 20, 1936) was an English-born American chemist noted for his achievements in electroplating and his development of the electrochemical cell, named the Weston cell, for the voltage standard. Pic. | |||
||Leon Chwistek (d. 20 August 1944) was a Polish avant-garde painter, theoretician of modern art, literary critic, logician, philosopher and mathematician. | ||Leon Chwistek (d. 20 August 1944) was a Polish avant-garde painter, theoretician of modern art, literary critic, logician, philosopher and mathematician. | ||
Revision as of 13:48, 27 March 2018
1672: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt dies in a riot. The rioters will partially eat his body.
1923: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1961: Physicist and academic Percy Williams Bridgman dies. He won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures.
1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.