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1936 - Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
Births
1676 - Jacopo Riccati, Italian mathematician
1738 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician
1807 - Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist
1836 - Alexander Mitscherlich, German chemist
1872 - Marian Smoluchowski, Polish physicist
1942 - Stanley B. Prusiner, American scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Deaths
1937 - Alfred Adler, Austrian psychologist
1980 - Rolf Nevanlinna, Finnish mathematician
2001 - Francisco Varela, Chilean biologist and philosopher
2003 - Ilya Prigogine, Russian-born physicist and chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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