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February 23

Events

• 1927: Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to Wolfgang Pauli describing his uncertainty principle for the first time.
  More: http://www.aip.org/history/heisenberg/p08.htm
• 1927: Plutonium is first produced and isolated.
  More: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja01173a001

Birthdays

• 1583: Jean-Baptiste Morin
  • Mathematician and astronomer who also worked in the field of optics.
  • More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Morin_%28mathematician%29
• 1929: Jaan Einasto
  • "one of the discoverers of the large-scale structure of the Universe"
  • More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaan_Einasto

Deaths

• 1855: Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Very important mathematician and physicist
  • More: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Gauss.html
• 1922: Albert Victor Backlund
  • "He improved greatly the understanding of contact transformations and introduced a new second class transformation, now known as auto-Backlund transformation"
  • More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Victor_B%C3%A4cklund

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