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||1883 – Max Fleischer, Austrian-American animator and producer (d. 1972) | ||1883 – Max Fleischer, Austrian-American animator and producer (d. 1972) | ||
||Johannes Peter Letzmann (b. 19 July 1885) was an Estonian meteorologist, and a pioneering tornado researcher. His prolific output related to severe storms concepts included: developing tornado damage studies, atmospheric vortices, theoretical studies and laboratory simulations, tornado case studies, and observation programs. It generated extensive analysis techniques and insights on tornadoes at a time when there was still very little research on the subject in the United States. Pic. | |||
||1886 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (d. 1957) | ||1886 – Michael Fekete, Hungarian-Israeli mathematician and academic (d. 1957) | ||
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1631: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini dies. His work promoted rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.
1632: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac discovers a new method of constructing magic squares, which he will soon use to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1814: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt born. He will found Colt's Manufacturing Company.
1893: Famed gem detective and diplomat Niles Cartouchian foils villains, returns stolen relics, brokers peace accord.
1894: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin born. He will become one of the founders of modern probability theory.
1895: Celebrity time-traveller Radium Jane says that Extract of Radium gives her the steady nerves she needs to fight crimes against mathematical constants.
1982: Physicist Hugh Everett III dies. He proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.
1984: New type of Lorenz system displays artificial intelligence, forecasts crimes against mathematical constants up to ten megabytes per fluid minute in advance.