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File:Thomson_tide_calculator.jpg|link=Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|1869: Supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] steals [[Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|Thomson tide calculator]] for personal use; Steampunks outraged. | File:Thomson_tide_calculator.jpg|link=Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|1869: Supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] steals [[Tide-predicting machine (nonfiction)|Thomson tide calculator]] for personal use; Steampunks outraged. | ||
||1903 – Bill Holman, American cartoonist (d. 1987) | ||1903 – Bill Holman, American cartoonist (d. 1987) | ||
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||1917 – Irving Kaplansky, Canadian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2006) | ||1917 – Irving Kaplansky, Canadian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2006) | ||
||Carson Dunning Jeffries (b. March 22, 1922) was an American physicist. The National Academies Press said that Jeffries "made major fundamental contributions to knowledge of nuclear magnetism, electronic spin relaxation, dynamic nuclear polarization, electron-hole droplets, nonlinear dynamics and chaos, and high-temperature superconductors." He was noted for being the first to observe the isotropic spin-spin exchange interaction in metals (also known as the Ruderman-Kittel interaction). He also discovered methods for the dynamic nuclear polarization by saturation of forbidden microwave resonance transitions in solids. He also discovered the existence of giant electron-hole droplets in semiconductors. | |||
||1924 – William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (b. 1848) | ||1924 – William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (b. 1848) | ||
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1647: Niels Steensen uses scrying engine technology to locate fossils. These will later prove useful in detecting and counteracting crimes against mathematical constants.
1868: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan born. He will win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
1869: Supervillain Neptune Slaughter steals Thomson tide calculator for personal use; Steampunks outraged.
1909: Physicist Nathan Rosen born. He will develop the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.
1910: Tempest prognosticator used to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1929: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel attends birthday party for Nathan Rosen. They will later collaborate on ideas which will lead The Eel to construct a portable wormhole generator.
1990: Engineer Gerald Bull assassinated. He attempted to build artillery guns which could launch satellites into orbit.
2001: Capacitor plague affects several brands of portable envy devices.
2002: Portable envy components at risk of capacitor plague.