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||1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
||1932 – Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
||William Albert Noyes (d. October 24, 1941) was an American analytical and organic chemist. He made pioneering determinations of atomic weights. Pic.


||1945 – Founding of the United Nations.
||1945 – Founding of the United Nations.

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  • 1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.

    1601: Astronomer Tycho Brahe dies. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.

  • 1635: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard dies. He design and built calculating machines, and invented techniques for producing improved maps.

    1635: Minister, scholar, astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, and inventor Wilhelm Schickard dies. He design and built calculating machines, and invented techniques for producing improved maps.

  • 1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's astronomical observations to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1602: Physicist, inventor, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Tycho Brahe's astronomical observations to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1646: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter Evangelista Torricelli his "barometer of the indivisibles", which uses quantum pressure to detect and prevent crimes against physics.

    1646: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter Evangelista Torricelli his "barometer of the indivisibles", which uses quantum pressure to detect and prevent crimes against physics.

  • 1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.

    1655: Mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and priest Pierre Gassendi dies. He clashed with his contemporary Descartes on the possibility of certain knowledge.

  • 2015: Steganographic analysis of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.

    2015: Steganographic analysis of Asclepius Myrmidon Spear Charge reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.

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