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||1665 – Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (d. 1721) | ||1665 – Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, German botanist and physician (d. 1721) | ||
File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1767: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent a cross-linked set of crimes against [[Crimes against physical constants|physics]], [[Crimes against astronomical constants|astronomy]], and [[Crimes against mathematical constants|mathematics]]. | |||
||1785 – Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist and chemist (d. 1838) | ||1785 – Pierre Louis Dulong, French physicist and chemist (d. 1838) |
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1767: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent a cross-linked set of crimes against physics, astronomy, and mathematics.
1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind dies. He made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.
1946: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive meet goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the original event.
1947: Chemist Moses Gomberg dies. He identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.
1960: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson dies. He made important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.
1961: Spacecraft Venera 1 launched. It will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).
1983: High-energy literature research project accidentally releases new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
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1994: Mathematical physicist Charles Critchfield dies. He worked on the Manhattan Project, designing and testing the "Urchin" neutron initiator which provided the burst of neutrons that kick-started the nuclear detonation of the Fat Man weapon.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Skip Digits illustration unexpectedly reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.