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||1899: Herbert Arthur Stuart born ... physicist and academic. | ||1899: Herbert Arthur Stuart born ... physicist and academic. | ||
||1899: Francesco Castracane degli Antelminelli dies ... naturalist. He was reportedly one of the first to introduce microphotography into the study of biology. His first experiments in applying the camera to the microscope were made as early as 1862 with diatomaceæ, and he subsequently made these microorganisms his chief study. Pic: https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/record/2023813/https___phaidra_cab_unipd_it_o_1480.html | |||
||1902: Émile Benveniste born ... linguist and semiotician. | ||1902: Émile Benveniste born ... linguist and semiotician. | ||
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1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen born. He will win the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
1923: Chemist and physicist James Dewar dies. He invented the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases.
1925: Mathematician Carl Gottfried Neumann dies. He will studied physics with his father, and later worked as a mathematician, dealing almost exclusively with problems arising from physics.
1975: Statistician George E. P. Box publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on time-series analysis and Bayesian inference, which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2011: Artist George Tooker dies. His paintings depicted his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images used flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.
2002: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.