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||1906 – A. W. Mailvaganam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (d. 1987) | ||1906 – A. W. Mailvaganam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (d. 1987) | ||
||Major General Kenneth David "Nick" Nichols (b. 13 November 1907) was a United States Army officer and an engineer. He worked on the Manhattan Project, which developed the Atomic Bomb during World War II, as Deputy District Engineer to James C. Marshall, and from 13 August 1943 as the District Engineer of the Manhattan Engineer District. He was responsible for both the uranium production facility at the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and the plutonium production facility at Hanford Engineer Works in Washington state. | |||
||1913 – V. Appapillai, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (d. 2001) | ||1913 – V. Appapillai, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (d. 2001) | ||
Revision as of 22:49, 29 October 2017
1969: Actor Gerard Butler born.
2013: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
2014: Mathematician and theorist Alexander Grothendieck dies. He was the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.
2017: Action-adventure film London Has Swollen opens to rave reviews.