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||1579: Alessandro Piccolomini dies ... humanist and philosopher from Siena, who promoted the popularization in the vernacular of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises. Pic book cover.
||1579: Alessandro Piccolomini dies ... humanist and philosopher from Siena, who promoted the popularization in the vernacular of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises. Pic book cover.


||1683: John Theophilus Desaguliers born ... natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton.
||1683: John Theophilus Desaguliers born ... natural philosopher, clergyman, engineer and freemason who was elected to the Royal Society in 1714 as experimental assistant to Isaac Newton. Pic.


File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1824: Physicist and academic [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] born. He will contribute to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
File:Gustav Robert Kirchhoff.jpg|link=Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|1824: Physicist and academic [[Gustav Kirchhoff (nonfiction)|Gustav Kirchhoff]] born. He will contribute to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects.
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||1838: William Henry Perkin born ... chemist and academic.
||1838: William Henry Perkin born ... chemist and academic.


||Zerah Colburn (d. March 2, 1839) was a child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator. Pic.
||1839: Zerah Colburn dies ... child prodigy of the 19th century who gained fame as a mental calculator. Pic.


||Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila (d. 12 March 1853) was a Menorcan-born French toxicologist and chemist, the founder of the science of toxicology. Pic.
||1853: Mathieu Joseph Bonaventure Orfila dies ... toxicologist and chemist, the founder of the science of toxicology. Pic.


||Ernesto Cesàro (b. 12 March 1859) was an Italian mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. pic
||1859: Ernesto Cesàro born ... mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in ''Lezione di geometria intrinseca'' (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. pic


||1863 – Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist and chemist (d. 1945)
||1863: Vladimir Vernadsky born ... Russian mineralogist and chemist.


||1880: Henry Drysdale Dakin born ... chemist and academic.
||1880: Henry Drysdale Dakin born ... chemist and academic.
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File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1923: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] falls asleep, relapses into her [[Janet Beta]] state.  
File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1923: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] falls asleep, relapses into her [[Janet Beta]] state.  


||Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Ph.D., LL.D. (d. 12 March 1935), also known as Michael I. Pupin was a Serbian American physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils (of wire) at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire (known as "pupinization").
||1935: Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin dies ... physicist and physical chemist. Pupin is best known for his numerous patents, including a means of greatly extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils (of wire) at predetermined intervals along the transmitting wire (known as "pupinization").


||1942 – Robert Bosch, German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH (b. 1861)
||1942: Robert Bosch dies ... engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH.


||1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
||1942: William Henry Bragg dies ... physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Leonida Tonelli (d. 12 March 1946) was an Italian mathematician, noted for creating Tonelli's theorem, a variation of Fubini's theorem, and for introducing semicontinuity methods as a common tool for the direct method in the calculus of variations.
||1946: Leonida Tonelli dies ... mathematician, noted for creating Tonelli's theorem, a variation of Fubini's theorem, and for introducing semicontinuity methods as a common tool for the direct method in the calculus of variations.


||1947 – Mary Jean Harrold, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2013)
||1947: Mary Jean Harrold born ... computer scientist and academic.


||1949: Wilhelm Steinkopf dies ... chemist.
||1949: Wilhelm Steinkopf dies ... chemist.

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