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||1888: Zygmunt Janiszewski born ... mathematician and academic. Pic: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Janiszewski | ||1888: Zygmunt Janiszewski born ... mathematician and academic. Pic: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygmunt_Janiszewski | ||
||1899: Fritz Albert Lipmann born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1899: Fritz Albert Lipmann born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1900: Robert Bigham Brode born ... physicist, who during World War II led the group at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos laboratory that developed the fuses used in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Pic. | ||1900: Robert Bigham Brode born ... physicist, who during World War II led the group at the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos laboratory that developed the fuses used in the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Pic. | ||
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||1918: Mathematician, physicist, and academic Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer born. He will be a leading academic in his native Ceylon. Pic. | ||1918: Mathematician, physicist, and academic Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer born. He will be a leading academic in his native Ceylon. Pic. | ||
||1920: Dave Berg born ... soldier and cartoonist. | ||1920: Dave Berg born ... soldier and cartoonist. Pic (self portrait cartoon). | ||
||1922: Margherita Hack born ... astrophysicist and author. Pic. | ||1922: Margherita Hack born ... astrophysicist and author. Pic. | ||
||1935: A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War. | ||1935: A ceasefire is negotiated between Bolivia and Paraguay, ending the Chaco War. | ||
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1577: Astronomer and mathematician Paul Guldin born. He will discover the Guldinus theorem, which determines the surface and the volume of a solid of revolution.
1936: Data from Canterbury scrying engine used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1937: Mathematician and academic Vladimir Arnold born. He will help develop the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem regarding the stability of integrable systems.
1938: Alice Beta Paragliding published. Many experts believe that the illustration depicts Beta infiltrating the ENIAC program, although this is widely debated.
1945: Physicist James Franck brings the Franck Report to Washington. The report recommends that the United States not use the atomic bomb as a weapon to prompt the surrender of Japan in World War II.
1981: Arnold's cat map is "better than a laser pointer for keeping a cat amused," says mathematician and cat psychologist Vladimir Arnold.
2019: Signed first edition of Green Tangle 2 purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a prominent mathematician living in New Minneapolis, Canada."