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||1839: Aleksandr Stoletov born ... physicist and academic. Pic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Stoletov
||1839: Aleksandr Stoletov born ... physicist and academic. Pic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Stoletov
||1843: Robert Adrain dies ... mathematician, whose career was spent in the USA. He was considered one of the most brilliant mathematical minds of the time in America, during a period when few academics conducted original research. He is chiefly remembered for his formulation of the method of least squares. Pic.


||1856: William Willett born ... inventor, founded British Summer Time.
||1856: William Willett born ... inventor, founded British Summer Time.

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