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File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1878: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] dies. He pioneered the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1878: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] dies. He pioneered the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
||Paul Ehrenfest (b. 18 January 1880) was an Austrian and Dutch theoretical physicist, who made major contributions to the field of statistical mechanics and its relations with quantum mechanics, including the theory of phase transition[1] and the Ehrenfest theorem.


||1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.
||1896 – An X-ray generating machine is exhibited for the first time by H. L. Smith.

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