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||Arthur Eichengrün (d. 23 December 1949) was a German Jewish chemist, materials scientist, and inventor. He is known for developing the highly successful anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol, the standard treatment for 50 years until the adoption of antibiotics, and for his pioneering contributions in plastics | ||Arthur Eichengrün (d. 23 December 1949) was a German Jewish chemist, materials scientist, and inventor. He is known for developing the highly successful anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol, the standard treatment for 50 years until the adoption of antibiotics, and for his pioneering contributions in plastics | ||
||Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (d. 23 December 1953) was a Soviet politician of Georgian ethnicity, Marshal of the Soviet Union and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II. | |||
||1954 – First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray. | ||1954 – First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray. | ||
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1722: Mathematician and academic Pierre Varignon dies. He simplified the proofs of many propositions in mechanics, adapted Leibniz's calculus to the inertial mechanics of Newton's Principia, and treated mechanics in terms of the composition of forces.
1822: Inventor and engineer Wilhelm Bauer born. He will design and invent submarines.
1948: Mathematician Wilhelm Ackermann publishes his research on applications of the Ackermann function to detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.