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||1992 – Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1927) | ||1992 – Gerard K. O'Neill, American physicist and astronomer (b. 1927) | ||
||Cyrus Derman (d. April 27, 2011) was an American mathematician and amateur musician who did research in Markov decision process, stochastic processes, operations research, statistics and a variety of other fields. Pic. | |||
||2015 – Alexander Rich, American biologist, biophysicist, and academic (b. 1924) | ||2015 – Alexander Rich, American biologist, biophysicist, and academic (b. 1924) | ||
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1869: Only known copy of Interview with Wallace War-Heels is stolen by Baron Zersetzung. Twain and War-Heels will soon team up to recover the illustration.
1913: Mathematician, author, activist, and academic Irving Adler born. He will be a plaintiff in the McCarthy-era case Adler vs. Board of Education.
1937: Biochemist and crime-fighter John Kendrew uses data from X-ray crystallography experiments to predict and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl dies. He argued that transcendental consciousness sets the limits of all possible knowledge.
1978: Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.