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||Sir Harold Walter Kroto FRS (d. 30 April 2016), known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. Pic. | ||Sir Harold Walter Kroto FRS (d. 30 April 2016), known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. Pic. | ||
File:Green Sprouts.jpg|link=Green Sprouts (nonfiction)| | ||Anatole Katok (d. April 30, 2018) was an American mathematician with Russian origins. Katok was the Director of the Center for Dynamics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University. His field of research was the theory of dynamical systems. Pic. | ||
||File:Green Sprouts.jpg|link=Green Sprouts (nonfiction)|2019: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Green Sprouts (nonfiction)|Green Sprouts]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least thirty-five kilobytes" of encrypted data, apparently a previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] function related to the color [[Green (nonfiction)|green]]. | |||
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1523: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé uses Judicial astrology to detect and prevent crimes against astronomical constants.
1777: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss born. He will have an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and be ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
1874: Scene from Gambling Den Fight adapted for opera by John Havelock, performed at theaters across Europe to rave reviews.
1897: J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
1913: Nikola Tesla, Albert Einstein, and J. J. Thomson team up to defeat the combined forces of criminal mathematical functions Forbidden Ratio and Gnotilus.
1905: Albert Einstein writes his thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen ("A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions").
1916: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon born. He will be known as "the father of information theory".
1916: Jazz drummer and theoretical crime-fighter Albert Einstein stops the Forbidden Ratio from kidnapping newborn infant Claude Shannon.
1964: Electronics researcher and Gnomon algorithm theorist Ralph Hartley uses the Hartley oscillator to detect and erase the Forbidden Ratio.
1973: Watergate: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.