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||1863 – Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1933) | ||1863 – Henry Royce, English engineer and businessman, founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1933) | ||
||Tommy Bonnesen (b. 27 March 1873) was a Danish mathematician, known for Bonnesen's inequality. | |||
||1882 – Thomas Graham Brown, Scottish mountaineer and physiologist (d. 1965) | ||1882 – Thomas Graham Brown, Scottish mountaineer and physiologist (d. 1965) | ||
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1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen born. He will win the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
1923: Chemist and physicist James Dewar dies. He invented the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases.
1925: Mathematician Carl Gottfried Neumann dies. He will studied physics with his father, and later worked as a mathematician, dealing almost exclusively with problems arising from physics.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
2011: Artist George Tooker dies. His paintings depicted his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images used flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.
2002: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.