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||1893 – John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and chemist (b. 1820) | ||1893 – John Tyndall, Irish-English physicist and chemist (b. 1820) | ||
File:Golem and Loew.jpg|link=Golem (nonfiction)|1899: Rabbi Lowe inspects [[Golem (nonfiction)|traditional golem]] for organic toxins. | |File:Golem and Loew.jpg|link=Golem (nonfiction)|1899: Rabbi Lowe inspects [[Golem (nonfiction)|traditional golem]] for organic toxins. | ||
File:Nathan Jacobson.jpg|link=Nathan Jacobson (nonfiction)|1942: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Nathan Jacobson (nonfiction)|Nathan Jacobson]] uses structure theory of rings without finiteness conditions to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1948 – Frank Benford, American physicist and engineer (b. 1883) | ||1948 – Frank Benford, American physicist and engineer (b. 1883) | ||
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1131: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám dies.
1131: Red Eyes delivers eulogy for Omar Khayyám.
1798: Physician and physicist Luigi Galvani dies. In 1780, he discovered that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.
1820: Physicist John Tyndall dies of chloral hydrate overdose. He studied diamagnetism, and made discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
1942: Mathematician and crime-fighter Nathan Jacobson uses structure theory of rings without finiteness conditions to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe makes its closest approach to the planet Jupiter, at a range of about 132,252 kilometers (82,178 mi).
2016: London Has Swollen wins Sundance Film Festival award.
2023: Bingo tokens harvested from diagramaceous soil.