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1951 - Michael Hartley Freedman, American mathematician
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1719 - Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and historian
1825 - Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician
1965 - Edward Victor Appleton, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1980 - Aleksandr Oparin, Russian biochemist
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John... just checking in, came across this blog after revisiting one of your older papers in preparing for a class. Get it touch when you have a moment. Best L