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||Sir Harold Walter Kroto FRS (d. 30 April 2016), known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. Pic. | ||Sir Harold Walter Kroto FRS (d. 30 April 2016), known as Harry Kroto, was an English chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. Pic. | ||
File:Green Sprouts.jpg|link=Green Sprouts (nonfiction)|2018: Chromatographic analysis of ''[[Green Sprouts (nonfiction)|Green Sprouts]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least thirty-five kilobytes" of encrypted data, apparently a previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] function related to the color [[Green (nonfiction)|green]]. | |||
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1523: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé uses Judicial astrology (nonfiction) to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1777: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss born. He will have an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and be ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
1874: Scene from Gambling Den Fight adapted for opera, performed at theaters across Europe to rave reviews.
1905: Albert Einstein writes his thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen ("A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions").
1916: Mathematician, engineer, and information scientist Claude Shannon born.
1961: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg discovers new hydrogen isotope with important applications in the diagnosis and treatment of crimes against chemical constants.
1973: Watergate: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces that White House Counsel John Dean has been fired and that other top aides, most notably H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, have resigned.
2018: Chromatographic analysis of Green Sprouts unexpectedly reveals "at least thirty-five kilobytes" of encrypted data, apparently a previously unknown Gnomon algorithm function related to the color green.