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||1899 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986) | ||1899 – Fritz Albert Lipmann, German-American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986) | ||
||Robert Bigham Brode (b. June 12, 1900) was an American 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. | |||
||1918 – Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer, Sri Lankan-Australian mathematician and academic (d. 2001) | ||1918 – Christie Jayaratnam Eliezer, Sri Lankan-Australian mathematician and academic (d. 2001) | ||
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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.