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||1785: Jean Paul de Gua de Malves dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||1785: Jean Paul de Gua de Malves dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||
||1787: Nils Gabriel Sefström born ... chemist. Sefström was a student of Berzelius and, when studying the brittleness of steel in 1830, he rediscovered a new chemical element, to which he gave the name vanadium. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nils_Gabriel_Sefstr%C3%B6m_(1787-1845)_3.png | |||
||1844: Gustaf Gabriel Hällström dies ... was a Finnish scientist. He was active in several fields, contributing to the establishment of an astronomical observatory in Turku as well as initiating the earliest systematic meteorological observations in Finland. Pic. | ||1844: Gustaf Gabriel Hällström dies ... was a Finnish scientist. He was active in several fields, contributing to the establishment of an astronomical observatory in Turku as well as initiating the earliest systematic meteorological observations in Finland. Pic. | ||
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1896: Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
1922: Game theory experts predict that Lloyd Shapley will be born "within two years at the most."
1923: Mathematician and economist Lloyd Shapley born. He will define game theory as "a mathematical study of conflict and cooperation."
2014: Pharmacologist and chemist Alexander Shulgin dies. He discovered, synthesized, and personal bioassayed over 230 psychoactive compounds for their psychedelic and entactogenic potential.
2019: Signed first edition of Blue Foliage purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a consortium of Gnomon algorithm theorists based in New Minneapolis, Canada."