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||1933: Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov born ... engineer and astronaut.
||1933: Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov born ... engineer and astronaut.
||1940: Oscar Lanford born ... mathematician working on mathematical physics and dynamical systems theory. Pic.


||1945: Vladimir Vernadsky dies ... mineralogist and chemist.
||1945: Vladimir Vernadsky dies ... mineralogist and chemist.

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  • 1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.

    1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.

  • 1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.

    1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.

  • 1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.

    1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.

  • 1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.

    1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.

  • 2016: Cold weather depresses Bergamot oil market, industry analysts predict spike in gas chromatography prices.

    2016: Cold weather depresses Bergamot oil market, industry analysts predict spike in gas chromatography prices.

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