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||1851: Herman Melville's ''Moby-Dick'' is first published as ''The Whale'' by Richard Bentley of London. | ||1851: Herman Melville's ''Moby-Dick'' is first published as ''The Whale'' by Richard Bentley of London. | ||
||1854: Salomon August Andrée born ... engineer, physicist, aeronaut and polar explorer who died while leading an attempt to reach the Geographic North Pole by hydrogen balloon. The balloon expedition was unsuccessful in reaching the Pole and resulted in the deaths of all three of its participants. Pic. | |||
||1859: Henri Bergson born ... philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate ... known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality. Pic. | ||1859: Henri Bergson born ... philosopher and theologian, Nobel Prize laureate ... known for his arguments that processes of immediate experience and intuition are more significant than abstract rationalism and science for understanding reality. Pic. | ||
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1640: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat announced his "little theorem" in a letter to Bernard Frenicle de Bessey.
1871: Polymath Charles Babbage dies. He constructed mechanical computers which anticipated the concept of programmable digital computers.
1919: Statistician and educator George E. P. Box born. He will be called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century".
1921: Niels Bohr introduced his quantum model of the atom.
1931: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Thomas Edison dies. He developed the light bulb and the phonograph, among other inventions.
1945: The USSR's nuclear program receives plans for the United States plutonium bomb from Klaus Fuchs at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
2017: Publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule generates new interest in organic golems.