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||1783 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
||1783 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
||Gaston Tissandier (b. November 21, 1843) was a French chemist, meteorologist, aviator and editor. Adventurer could be added to the list of his titles, as he managed to escape besieged Paris by balloon in September 1870. He founded and edited the scientific magazine La Nature and wrote several books. Pic.


||Gustav Roch (d. 21 November 1866) was a German mathematician who made significant contributions to the theory of Riemann surfaces in a career that ended when he died at the age of 26. Pic.
||Gustav Roch (d. 21 November 1866) was a German mathematician who made significant contributions to the theory of Riemann surfaces in a career that ended when he died at the age of 26. Pic.

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  • 1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer Jan Brożek dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of Nicolaus Copernicus' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.

    1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer Jan Brożek dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of Nicolaus Copernicus' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.

  • 1675: Isaac Newton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1675: Isaac Newton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1676: Astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

    1676: Astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

  • 1904: Mechanical engineer Clock Head 2 warns theoretical physicist Albert Einstein that the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², will have "earth-shaking consequences."

    1904: Mechanical engineer Clock Head 2 warns theoretical physicist Albert Einstein that the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², will have "earth-shaking consequences."

  • 1905: Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

    1905: Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

  • 1984: Physicist and crime-fighter Harry Lehmann uses a combination of the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.

    1984: Physicist and crime-fighter Harry Lehmann uses a combination of the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.

  • 1996: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam dies. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.

    1996: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam dies. He shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.

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