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||1797 – Joseph Henry, American physicist and engineer (d. 1878) | ||1797 – Joseph Henry, American physicist and engineer (d. 1878) | ||
||John Kerr FRS (b. 17 December 1824) was a Scottish physicist and a pioneer in the field of electro-optics. He is best known for the discovery of what is now called the Kerr effect. | |||
||1833 – Kaspar Hauser, German feral child (b. 1812) | ||1833 – Kaspar Hauser, German feral child (b. 1812) | ||
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500 BC: Dionysus gives speech which anticipates the coming of Saturnalia.
497 BC: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome.
1706: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet born. She will translate and comment upon on Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.
1842: Mathematician and academic Marius Sophus Lie born. He will largely create the theory of continuous symmetry and apply it to the study of geometry and differential equations.
1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn devotes himself to fighting crimes against mathematical constants.
1900: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright born. She will do pioneering work in what will later be called chaos theory.
1907: Lord Kelvin dies. He did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1938: Physicist Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
1977: High-energy literature used during Saturnalia for the first time.