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Which came first, the natural logarithm or the base of the natural logarithm?

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What did the Soviets do with German scientists after WWII?

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In what instances did Wolfgang Pauli say that something was 'not even wrong'?

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Who first used the word "calculus", and what did it describe?

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Why did Einstein stop publishing so many papers in Annalen der Physik?

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What was the typical format of a 16th century mathematical debate?

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Why is the natural logarithm represented by $\ln$?

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What were Newton's six laws of motion?

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When was string theory first heralded as a theory of everything?

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Who was the first to use the phrase "the standard model" of something?

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What were Riemann's other two submissions for his habilitation?

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Did Darwin ever express his views on eugenics?

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Why is Minkowski's question mark function denoted by a question mark?

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Which German scientists had their Nobel Prizes seized during World War II?

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When were the abbreviations of chemical elements standardized?

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When did the idea of naming asteroids after humans come about?

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When the Superconducting Super Collider was built, was the future of the site planned for?

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Who invented the Haversine formula (or at least the oldest paper in which it was cited)?

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How many papers on general relativity did Marcel Grossmann author or co-author?

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How did the theory of the Horus-eye fractions originate?

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Where did the term "tauon" come from?

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Who invented the swan-necked flask?

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How did Ramanujan empirically obtain these errors?

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Which physicist defended the Superconducting Super Collider?

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Why is the Dirac delta "function" often presented as the limit of a Gaussian with a fraction in the exponent?

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What theoretical basis did Reimers base his mass loss law on?

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Were Lagrangian coordinates or Eulerian coordinates used first in continuum mechanics?

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Before the IAU, what was the international governing body for naming astronomical bodies?

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What happened to the data from the survey that discovered the first pulsars?

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Which came first, the natural logarithm or the base of the natural logarithm?

What did the Soviets do with German scientists after WWII?

In what instances did Wolfgang Pauli say that something was 'not even wrong'?

Who first used the word "calculus", and what did it describe?

Why did Einstein stop publishing so many papers in Annalen der Physik?

What was the typical format of a 16th century mathematical debate?

Why is the natural logarithm represented by $\ln$?

What were Newton's six laws of motion?

When was string theory first heralded as a theory of everything?

Who was the first to use the phrase "the standard model" of something?

What were Riemann's other two submissions for his habilitation?

Did Darwin ever express his views on eugenics?

Why is Minkowski's question mark function denoted by a question mark?

Which German scientists had their Nobel Prizes seized during World War II?

When were the abbreviations of chemical elements standardized?

When did the idea of naming asteroids after humans come about?

When the Superconducting Super Collider was built, was the future of the site planned for?

Who invented the Haversine formula (or at least the oldest paper in which it was cited)?

How many papers on general relativity did Marcel Grossmann author or co-author?

How did the theory of the Horus-eye fractions originate?

Where did the term "tauon" come from?

Who invented the swan-necked flask?

How did Ramanujan empirically obtain these errors?

Which physicist defended the Superconducting Super Collider?

Why is the Dirac delta "function" often presented as the limit of a Gaussian with a fraction in the exponent?

What theoretical basis did Reimers base his mass loss law on?

Were Lagrangian coordinates or Eulerian coordinates used first in continuum mechanics?

Before the IAU, what was the international governing body for naming astronomical bodies?

What happened to the data from the survey that discovered the first pulsars?