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||1856 – Jacques Curie, French physicist and academic (d. 1941)
||1856 – Jacques Curie, French physicist and academic (d. 1941)


||1880 – Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1960)
||1880 – Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1960) Abram Fedorovich (or Fyodorovich) Ioffe (Russian: Абра́м Фёдорович Ио́ффе; 29 October [O.S. 17 October] 1880 – 14 October 1960) was a prominent Russian/Soviet physicist. He received the Stalin Prize (1942), the Lenin Prize (1960) (posthumously), and the Hero of Socialist Labor (1955). Ioffe was an expert in electromagnetism, radiology, crystals, high-impact physics, thermoelectricity and photoelectricity. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics


||1921 – Bill Mauldin, American soldier and cartoonist (d. 2003)
||1921 – Bill Mauldin, American soldier and cartoonist (d. 2003)

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  • 1675: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.

    1675: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.

  • 1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.

    1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.

  • 1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.

    1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.

  • 1965 Oct. 29: Long Shot nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska. It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States.

    1965 Oct. 29: Long Shot nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska. It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States.

  • 2017: "Brainiac is planning to kill us all," warns Lord Kelvin.

    2017: "Brainiac is planning to kill us all," warns Lord Kelvin.

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