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||Bailie Hugh Blackburn (b. 2 July 1823) was a Scottish mathematician. A lifelong friend of William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), and the husband of illustrator Jemima Blackburn, he was professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow from 1849 to 1879. Pic. | ||Bailie Hugh Blackburn (b. 2 July 1823) was a Scottish mathematician. A lifelong friend of William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), and the husband of illustrator Jemima Blackburn, he was professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow from 1849 to 1879. Pic. | ||
||Aleksander Zaytsev (b. 2 July 1841), was a Russian chemist. He worked on organic compounds and proposed Zaitsev's rule, which predicts the product composition of an elimination reaction. Pic. | |||
||William Burnside (b. 2 July 1852) was an English mathematician. He is known mostly as an early researcher in the theory of finite groups. | ||William Burnside (b. 2 July 1852) was an English mathematician. He is known mostly as an early researcher in the theory of finite groups. | ||
||Sir William Henry Bragg | ||Sir William Henry Bragg (b. 2 July 1862) was a British physicist, chemist, mathematician and active sportsman who uniquely shared a Nobel Prize with his son William Lawrence Bragg – the 1915 Nobel Prize in Physics: "for their services in the analysis of crystal structure by means of X-rays". | ||
||1876 – Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist and academic (d. 1933) | ||1876 – Harriet Brooks, Canadian physicist and academic (d. 1933) | ||
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1698: Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine. Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him.
1699: Omar Khayyam publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1778: Philosopher and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe.
1897: British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
1937: Pilot and author Amelia Earhart disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes series of pictures through the Enlightenment in France, in honor of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.