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||1860: Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao. | ||1860: Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao. | ||
||1866: Charles Nicolle born ... microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1866: Charles Nicolle born ... microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate typhus. Pic (cool tech). | ||
||1874: Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont dies ... geologist and engineer. | ||1874: Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont dies ... geologist and engineer. His theory of the origin of mountain ranges did not find general acceptance, but proved of great value to geological science, owing to the extensive additions to the knowledge of the structure of mountain ranges which its author made in endeavoring to find facts to support it. Pic. | ||
||1884: Dénes Kőnig born ... mathematician and theorist. | ||1884: Dénes Kőnig born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||
||1893: K. Ananda Rau born ... mathematician. He will work on the summability of series, the theory of functions of a complex variable, and sums of an even number of squares. Pic. | ||1893: K. Ananda Rau born ... mathematician. He will work on the summability of series, the theory of functions of a complex variable, and sums of an even number of squares. Pic. | ||
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||1899: Juliusz Paweł Schauder born ... mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis, partial differential equations and mathematical physics. Pic. | ||1899: Juliusz Paweł Schauder born ... mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis, partial differential equations and mathematical physics. Pic. | ||
||1903: Preston Tucker born ... engineer and businessman, designed the Tucker Sedan. | ||1903: Preston Tucker born ... engineer and businessman, designed the Tucker Sedan. Pic. | ||
||1905: Nikolay Nikolayevich Benardos dies ... inventor of Greek origin who in 1881 introduced carbon arc welding, which was the first practical arc welding method. Pic. | ||1905: Nikolay Nikolayevich Benardos dies ... inventor of Greek origin who in 1881 introduced carbon arc welding, which was the first practical arc welding method. Pic. | ||
||1906: Samuel Arnold dies ... conspirator. | ||1906: Samuel Arnold dies ... conspirator, Lincoln kidnap plot. Pic. | ||
||1917: Phyllis Nicolson born ... mathematician and academic ... most known for her work on the Crank–Nicolson scheme together with John Crank. | ||1917: Phyllis Nicolson born ... mathematician and academic ... most known for her work on the Crank–Nicolson scheme together with John Crank. | ||
||1918: John Gofman born ... physicist, chemist, and | ||1918: John Gofman born ... physicist, chemist, biologist, and academic. Gofman pioneered the field of clinical lipidology. With Frank T. Lindgren and other research associates, Gofman discovered and described three major classes of plasma lipoproteins, fat molecules that carry cholesterol in the blood. Pic. | ||
||1926: Léon Charles Thévenin dies ... engineer. | ||1926: Léon Charles Thévenin dies ... engineer. | ||
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1576: Gerolamo Cardano dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.
1577: Mathematician, cosmographer, and crime-fighter Pedro Nunes publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on navigation and cartography to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants at sea.
1688: Mathematician and scientist Vincenzo Viviani publishes new theory of acoustics which uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
![1781: Joseph-Louis Lagrange writes to d'Alembert: "It appears to me also that the mine [of mathematics] is already very deep and that unless one discovers new veins it will be necessary sooner or later to abandon it." This view is prevalent at the end of the eighteenth century.](/w/images/thumb/c/c8/Joseph-Louis_Lagrange.jpg/107px-Joseph-Louis_Lagrange.jpg)
1781: Joseph-Louis Lagrange writes to d'Alembert: "It appears to me also that the mine [of mathematics] is already very deep and that unless one discovers new veins it will be necessary sooner or later to abandon it." This view is prevalent at the end of the eighteenth century.
1792: French Revolution: The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the absolute monarchy.
1853: Physicist and academic Heike Kamerlingh Onnes born. He will receive widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium".
1854: Signed first edition of Leonardo Draws Clock Head sells fifty thousand dollars.
2018: Signed first edition of Spiral used in high-energy literature experiments unexpectedly develops spontaneous artificial intelligence.