Births on January 2

Lev Schnirelmann

Born on January 2, 1905

Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1938)

Lev Genrikhovich Schnirelmann (also Shnirelman, Shnirel'man; Лев Ге́нрихович Шнирельма́н; 2 January 1905 – 24 September 1938) was a Soviet mathematician who worked on number theory, topology and differential geometry.

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Events on 1905

27 May

Battle of Tsushima
Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
28 May

Battle of Tsushima
Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
26 Oct

Norway
Sweden accepts the independence of Norway.
30 Oct

Nicholas II of Russia
Czar Nicholas II of Russia issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. This was October 17 in the Julian calendar.
21 Nov

Mass-energy equivalence
Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass-energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

Births on January 2

Lev Schnirelmann

Born on January 2, 1905

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Events on 1905

Battle of Tsushima

Battle of Tsushima

Norway

Nicholas II of Russia

Mass-energy equivalence