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||1887 – James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955) | ||1887 – James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955) | ||
File:Georgy Voronoy.jpg|link=Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|1897: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Georgy Voronoy (nonfiction)|Georgy Voronoy]] uses what are today called [[Voronoi diagram (nonfiction)|Voronoi diagrams]] to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1898 – Arthur R. von Hippel, German-American physicist and academic (d. 2003) | ||1898 – Arthur R. von Hippel, German-American physicist and academic (d. 2003) | ||
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1700: Priest and physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet born. In 1746 he will gather about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He will then discharge a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observe that each man reacts at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation is very high.
1834: Physicist and academic Georg Hermann Quincke born. He will conduct prolonged research on the subject of the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.
1897: Mathematician and crime-fighter Georgy Voronoy uses what are today called Voronoi diagrams to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1936: Television talk show host Dick Cavett born.