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||1927: Walter Thirring born ... physicist after whom the Thirring model in quantum field theory is named. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=walter+thirring
||1927: Walter Thirring born ... physicist after whom the Thirring model in quantum field theory is named. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=walter+thirring


||1937: Wallace Hume Carothers born ... chemist, inventor and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, credited with the invention of nylon. Pic.
||1937: Wallace Carothers born ... chemist, inventor and the leader of organic chemistry at DuPont, credited with the invention of nylon. Pic (cool!).


||1947: Irving Fisher dies ... economist, statistician, inventor, and Progressive social campaigner. Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and general equilibrium. His research on the quantity theory of money inaugurated the school of macroeconomic thought known as monetarism. Fisher was also a pioneer of econometrics, including the development of index numbers. Pic.
||1947: Irving Fisher dies ... economist, statistician, inventor, and Progressive social campaigner. Fisher made important contributions to utility theory and general equilibrium. His research on the quantity theory of money inaugurated the school of macroeconomic thought known as monetarism. Fisher was also a pioneer of econometrics, including the development of index numbers. Pic.

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