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Mathematicians Of The Day
7th July
On this day in 1887, Michelson and Morley began the interferometer experiment to try to detect ether. Their result supported special relativity.
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Born:
- 1816: Rudolf Wolf Ⓟ
- 1845: Eduard Gubler Ⓟ
- 1883: Margaret Barr Moir
- 1888: Archibald Goldie
- 1901: Mary Simpson Ⓟ
- 1905: Marie-Louise Dubreil-Jacotin Ⓟ
- 1906: William Feller Ⓟ
- 1906: Gheorghe Mihoc Ⓟ
- 1922: Vladimir Aleksandrovich Marchenko Ⓟ
Died:
- 1900: Eduard Wiltheiss Ⓟ
- 1922: Jacques Bertillon Ⓟ
- 1927: Gösta Mittag-Leffler Ⓟ
- 1942: William Young Ⓟ
- 1967: Anatoly Malcev Ⓟ
- 1975: William Hodge Ⓟ
- 1982: Raymond Wilder Ⓟ
- 2014: Lars Gårding Ⓟ
- 2017: Marina Ratner Ⓟ
Quotation of the day
From William Young
Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see ... with regret that he was liable to err, and that his authority has, perhaps, sometimes even retarded the progress of science.
