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19 Sep 1648
Blaise Pascal |
Blaise Pascal (physics) Blaise Pascal's brother-in-law, Florin Périer, demonstrates in an ascent of the Puy-de-Dôme that atmospheric pressure varies with height. |
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19 Sep 1710
Ole Rømer |
death Ole Rømer Ole Rømer, Danish astronomer (born 1644) |
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19 Sep 1796
Richard Harlan |
birth Richard Harlan Richard Harlan, American zoologist (died 1843) |
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19 Sep 1798
Caesar Hawkins |
birth Caesar Hawkins Caesar Hawkins, English surgeon (died 1884) |
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19 Sep 1839
James Clark Ross |
James Clark Ross (exploration) James Clark Ross sets off on the first scientific expedition to survey Antarctica. |
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19 Sep 1843
Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis |
death Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis (born 1792), French mathematician and discoverer of the Coriolis effect. |
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19 Sep 1905
Thomas Barnardo |
death Thomas Barnardo Thomas Barnardo (born 1845), physician and philanthropist |
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19 Sep 1959
Giuseppe Cocconi |
Giuseppe Cocconi (astronomy and space ) Giuseppe Cocconi and Philip Morrison establish the scientific rationale for SETI with the publishing of their seminal paper "Searching for Interstellar Communications" in Nature. |
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19 Sep 1962
ICT 1301 |
ICT 1301 (computer science) The first ICT 1301 business mainframe sold, "Flossie", is installed at Senate House (University of London). It will still be operable 50 years later. |
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19 Sep 1994
Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem |
Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem (mathematics) Wiles' proof of Fermat's Last Theorem: Andrew Wiles devizes a new approach to the final proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, sending his proof to colleagues on October 6 and submitting for publication on October 24. |
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