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Carl Friedrich Gauss
discovered
on
7/10/1796
that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
discovered
on
3/30/1796
the construction of the heptadecagon
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Carl Friedrich Gauss
discovered
in
1796
regular polygon can be constructed by compass and straightedge if and only if the number of sides is the product of distinct Fermat primes and a power of 2
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Yvonne Craig
discovered
Jimmy Boyd
in
1962
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Hiram Bingham III
discovered
Machu Picchu
on
7/27/1911
at: (
-10,-76
)
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Robin Williams
discovered
Valerie Velardi
in
1988
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Ernest Hemingway
discovered
Elizabeth Hadley Richardson
in
1927
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Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
discovered
Superconductivity
on
4/8/1911
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Jacob Roggeveen
discovered
Easter Island
on
4/5/1722
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Heinrich Olbers
discovered
Pallas asteroid
on
3/27/1802
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Robert Koch
discovered
tuberculosis Bacterium
on
3/24/1882
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F William Herschel
discovered
Uranus
on
3/13/1781
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Johannes Kepler
discovered
Third Law of Planetary Motion
on
3/8/1618
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Howard Carter
discovered
Tomb of Tutankhamun
on
11/4/1922
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Robert Hooke
discovered
Hookes Law of Electricity
in
1660
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Dmitri Mendeleev
discovered
Period Table of Elements
on
3/6/1869
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Francis Crick
discovered
the chemical structure of DNA
on
2/28/1953
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Pyotr Nikolaevich Lebedev
discovered
measure the pressure of light on a solid body
in
1899
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Marcus Tullius Cicero
discovered
Terentia
in
47BC
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Christopher Columbus
discovered
Santa Cruz
on
11/14/1493
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Christopher Columbus
discovered
Puerto Rico
on
11/19/1493
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Cabot
discovered
Newfoundland
in
1497
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Juan Ponce de Leon
discovered
Florida
in
1513
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Christopher Columbus
discovered
Dominica
on
11/3/1493
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Christopher Columbus
discovered
America
on
10/12/1492
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