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Mathematicians Of The Day
26th June
On this day in 1927, Jerzy Neyman obtained his habilitation at Warsaw University and began lecturing as a docent. The following year he set up a Biometric Laboratory.
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Born:
- 1824: William Thomson Ⓟ
- 1878: Leopold Löwenheim Ⓟ
- 1896: Vernon Morton Ⓟ
- 1902: Hans Petersson Ⓟ
- 1908: Hermann Ludwig Schmid Ⓟ
- 1911: Ernst Witt Ⓟ
- 1914: Lyman Spitzer Ⓟ
- 1915: Paul Kelly Ⓟ
- 1918: Yudell Luke Ⓟ
- 1936: Gonzalo Pérez Iribarren Ⓟ
Died:
- 1274: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi Ⓟ
- 1796: David Rittenhouse Ⓟ
- 1903: Walter Gröbli Ⓟ
- 1946: Béla Kerékjártó Ⓟ
- 1951: George Udny Yule Ⓟ
- 1967: H T H Piaggio
- 1975: Joseph Proudman Ⓟ
- 1990: Hans Schwerdtfeger Ⓟ
- 1997: Roberto Frucht Ⓟ
- 2011: Jack Warga Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From William Thomson
Radio has no future.
