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||1933 – Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and theorist dies. He is known for the Mellin transform. Pic. | ||1933 – Hjalmar Mellin, Finnish mathematician and theorist dies. He is known for the Mellin transform. Pic. | ||
||Donald Lynden-Bell (b. 5 April 1935) was a British theoretical astrophysicist. He was the first to determine that galaxies contain supermassive black holes at their centres, and that such black holes power quasars. Pic. | |||
||Klaus Weber (b. 5 April 1936) was a German scientist who made many fundamentally important contributions to biochemistry, cell biology, and molecular biology. Pic. | ||Klaus Weber (b. 5 April 1936) was a German scientist who made many fundamentally important contributions to biochemistry, cell biology, and molecular biology. Pic. | ||
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1523: Cryptographer and diplomat Blaise de Vigenère (nonfiction) born. The Vigenère cipher will be misattributed to him; Vigenère himself will devise a different, stronger cipher.
1869: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin born. He will be known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.
1870: Adventurer Wallace War-Heels publishes autobiography.
1900: Mathematician, economist, and academic Joseph Louis François Bertrand dies. He worked in the fields of number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.
1910: Havelock and Nikola Tesla share Nobel Prize in Physics for research into electrical field modulation and data transmission.
1976: Businessman, investor, aviator, film director, and philanthropist Howard Hughes dies. He was known during his lifetime as one of the most financially successful individuals in the world.