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January 23rd
| 1840 | Ernst Abbe, one of the "fathers" of modern optics, was born in Eisenach, Germany.
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| 1862 | David Hilbert, whose famous 23 problems and whose foundational work set the course of mathematics for the 20th century, was born in Konigsberg, Prussia.
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| 1924 | James Lighthill born in Paris, France. An applied mathematician who began his career working on aerodynamics, he was Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University from 1969 to 1979, between Paul Dirac and Stephen Hawking.
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