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||1857: Charles Scott Sherrington born ... physiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1857: Charles Scott Sherrington born ... physiologist, bacteriologist, and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1867: Chemist Nikolai Kischner born ... He significantly contributed to the understanding of alicyclic compounds, their intermediate position between fatty (acyclic) and aromatic compounds and relationships with heterocyclic compounds. He also developed several efficient catalytic synthesis methods that were used by the Soviet dye industry. Pic. | |||
||1871: Giovanni Giorgi born ... physicist and engineer. | ||1871: Giovanni Giorgi born ... physicist and engineer. | ||
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1754: Mathematician and theorist Abraham de Moivre dies. His book on probability theory, The Doctrine of Chances, is prized by gamblers.
1810: The Berners Street hoax brings traffic to a standstill in parts of London.
1852: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace dies. She did pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1971: The The Mars 2 landing module crashes on Mars after its parachute fails to deploy.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a moment of silence in memory of the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 crash.
