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Ernst Chladni
Born: November 30, 1756
Sciencea German physicist and musician, sometimes labeled as the father of acousticsmore…Martin Heinrich Klaproth
Born: December 1, 1743
Sciencea German chemist. Discoverer of uranium, zirconium, and other elementsmore…Leonhard Euler
Born: April 15, 1707
Sciencea Swiss mathematician, physicist, astronomer, geographer, logician and engineer who founded the studies of graph theory and topologymore…Nicolas Steno
Born: January 1, 1638
Sciencea Danish scientist, a pioneer in both anatomy and geology who became a Catholic bishop in his later yearsmore…Władysław Reymont
Born: May 7, 1867
Lit.Westa Polish novelist best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel Chłopi (The Peasants)more…Alexander Friedmann
Born: June 16, 1888
Sciencea Russian and Soviet physicist and mathematician. He is best known for his pioneering theory that the universe was expandingmore…
The data is sourced from Charles Murray's Human Accomplishment database available by the Open Science Framework and from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.
