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||1929: Clemens von Pirquet dies ... physician and immunologist. He noticed that patients who had previously received injections of horse serum or smallpox vaccine had quicker, more severe reactions to a second injection. He, along with Béla Schick, coined the word ''allergy'' to describe this hypersensitivity reaction. Pic. | ||1929: Clemens von Pirquet dies ... physician and immunologist. He noticed that patients who had previously received injections of horse serum or smallpox vaccine had quicker, more severe reactions to a second injection. He, along with Béla Schick, coined the word ''allergy'' to describe this hypersensitivity reaction. Pic. | ||
||Mathematician Louis Nirenberg born ... made fundamental contributions to linear and nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) and their application to complex analysis and geometry. Pic. | ||1925: Mathematician Louis Nirenberg born ... made fundamental contributions to linear and nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs) and their application to complex analysis and geometry. Pic. | ||
||1932: Guillaume Bigourdan dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic. | ||1932: Guillaume Bigourdan dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic. | ||
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1533: Philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne born. He will be one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
1552: Clockmaker and mathematician Jost Bürgi born. He will be recognized during his own lifetime as one of the most excellent mechanical engineers of his generation.
1901: Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator Linus Pauling born.
1961: Codebreaker, historian, academic, and alleged time-traveller Florence Newman Trefethen discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use high-energy literature sensors to analyze the form and function of poetry.
2017: Steganographic analysis of excerpt from "Burglars" unexpected reveals "at least half a gigabyte of encrypted data, probably related to the ENIAC program".