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File:Jean-Antoine Nollet.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|1700: Priest and physicist [[Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine Nollet]] born. In 1746 he will gather about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He will then discharge a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observe that each man reacts at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation is very high. | File:Jean-Antoine Nollet.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|1700: Priest and physicist [[Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine Nollet]] born. In 1746 he will gather about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He will then discharge a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observe that each man reacts at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation is very high. | ||
||1703: Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner dies. | ||1703: Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner dies. Pic. | ||
||1711: Mikhail Lomonosov born ... physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer. | ||1711: Mikhail Lomonosov born ... physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer. Pic. | ||
||1822: Johann Georg Tralles dies ... mathematician and physicist. He discovered the Great Comet of 1819, also known as Comet Tralles in his honor. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Johann+Georg+Tralles | ||1822: Johann Georg Tralles dies ... mathematician and physicist. He discovered the Great Comet of 1819, also known as Comet Tralles in his honor. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Johann+Georg+Tralles | ||
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File:Willem de Sitter.jpg|link=Willem de Sitter (nonfiction)|1911: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Willem de Sitter (nonfiction)|Willem de Sitter]] publishes a paper in which he discusses the implications of cosmological data for the curvature of [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | File:Willem de Sitter.jpg|link=Willem de Sitter (nonfiction)|1911: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter [[Willem de Sitter (nonfiction)|Willem de Sitter]] publishes a paper in which he discusses the implications of cosmological data for the curvature of [[crimes against astronomical constants]]. | ||
||1912: | ||1912: Wilhelm Fiedler dies ... mathematician, known for his textbooks of geometry and his contributions to descriptive geometry. Pic. | ||
||1912: George Emil Palade born ... biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1912: George Emil Palade born ... biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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1700: Priest and physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet born. In 1746 he will gather about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He will then discharge a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observe that each man reacts at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation is very high.
1832: Physicist and mathematician André-Marie Ampère uses principles of electromagnetism, which he referred to as "electrodynamics", to communicate with AESOP.
1834: Physicist and academic Georg Hermann Quincke born. He will conduct prolonged research on the subject of the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.
1897: Mathematician and crime-fighter Georgy Voronoy uses what are today called Voronoi diagrams to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1911: Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and crime-fighter Willem de Sitter publishes a paper in which he discusses the implications of cosmological data for the curvature of crimes against astronomical constants.
1919: Mathematician Curt Meyer born. He will maKe notable contributions to number theory, including an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem.
1936: Television talk show host Dick Cavett born.