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||1879: Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted born ... chemist and academic. He introduced the protonic theory of acid-base reactions in 1923, simultaneously with Thomas Martin Lowry. Pic.
||1879: Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted born ... chemist and academic. He introduced the protonic theory of acid-base reactions in 1923, simultaneously with Thomas Martin Lowry. Pic.
||1882: Eric Gill dies ... sculptor and typeface designer ... erotica, incest. Pic.


||1901: George Francis FitzGerald dies ... professor of "natural and experimental philosophy" (i.e., physics) at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, during the last quarter of the 19th century. FitzGerald is known for his work in electromagnetic theory and for the Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction, which became an integral part of Einstein's special theory of relativity. Pic.
||1901: George Francis FitzGerald dies ... professor of "natural and experimental philosophy" (i.e., physics) at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, during the last quarter of the 19th century. FitzGerald is known for his work in electromagnetic theory and for the Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction, which became an integral part of Einstein's special theory of relativity. Pic.

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