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||1908: Frank Rowlett born ... cryptologist. Pic. | ||1908: Frank Rowlett born ... cryptologist. Pic. | ||
||1911: Alan Nunn May dies ... English physicist and Soviet spy ... who supplied secrets of British and United States atomic research to the Soviet Union during World War II. Pic. | |||
||1915: Clara Immerwahr dies ... chemist. Pic. | ||1915: Clara Immerwahr dies ... chemist. Pic. | ||
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||2004: John Michael Hammersley dies ... mathematician best known for his foundational work in the theory of self-avoiding walks and percolation theory. Pic. | ||2004: John Michael Hammersley dies ... mathematician best known for his foundational work in the theory of self-avoiding walks and percolation theory. Pic. | ||
||2012: Akira Tonomura dies ... physicist, author, and academic. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Akira-Tonomura | ||2012: Akira Tonomura dies ... physicist, author, and academic. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Akira-Tonomura | ||
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1488: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci publishes groundbreaking treatise on applications of the Gnomon algorithm principle to powered flight.
1519: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
1759: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop publishes an analysis of Gnomon algorithm techniques which will inspire future generations of scientists to construct the ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") project.
1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson born.
1986: Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
1986: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian says he is "sick and tired of mopping up Chernobyl, among other things."
2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.
2018: Signed first edition of Green Spiral 9 stolen from the Museum of Modern Art by criminal agents of the Forbidden Ratio.