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||1818: Angelo Secchi born ... astronomer and academic ... pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.
||1818: Angelo Secchi born ... astronomer and academic ... pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.


||1864: Ashutosh Mukherjee born ... educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician. He was the first student to be awarded a dual degree (MA in Mathematics and Physics) from Calcutta University. Perhaps the most emphatic figure of Indian education, he was a man of great personality, high self-respect, courage and towering administrative ability. The second Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23), Mukherjee was responsible for the foundation of the Bengal Technical Institute in 1906 and the College of Science of the Calcutta University in 1914. Mukherjee also played a vital role in the founding of the University College of Law popularly known as Hazra Law College. The Calcutta Mathematical Society was also founded by Mukherjee in 1908 and he served as the president of the Society from 1908 to 1923. He was also the president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress in 1914. The Ashutosh College was also founded under his stewardship in 1916, when he was Vice-chancellor of University of Calcutta. He was often called "Banglar Bagh" ("Tiger of Bengal") for his high self-esteem, courage, academic integrity and a general intransigent attitude towards the British Government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashutosh_Mukherjee
||1864: Ashutosh Mukherjee born ... educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician. He was the first student to be awarded a dual degree (MA in Mathematics and Physics) from Calcutta University. Perhaps the most emphatic figure of Indian education, he was a man of great personality, high self-respect, courage and towering administrative ability. The second Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23), Mukherjee was responsible for the foundation of the Bengal Technical Institute in 1906 and the College of Science of the Calcutta University in 1914. Mukherjee also played a vital role in the founding of the University College of Law popularly known as Hazra Law College. The Calcutta Mathematical Society was also founded by Mukherjee in 1908 and he served as the president of the Society from 1908 to 1923. He was also the president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress in 1914. The Ashutosh College was also founded under his stewardship in 1916, when he was Vice-chancellor of University of Calcutta. He was often called "Banglar Bagh" ("Tiger of Bengal") for his high self-esteem, courage, academic integrity and a general intransigent attitude towards the British Government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashutosh_Mukherjee Pic.


File:George Ellery Hale.jpg|link=George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|1868: Astronomer and journalist [[George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|George Ellery Hale]] born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.
File:George Ellery Hale.jpg|link=George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|1868: Astronomer and journalist [[George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|George Ellery Hale]] born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.

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