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||1897 – Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956) | ||1897 – Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956) | ||
||||Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa (February 7, 1833, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Caribbean – September 12, 1900) was an American physician. | |||
File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic. | File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic. | ||
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1900: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.
1932: American physicist and crime-fighter Arthur Compton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on the Compton effect, use the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1933: Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
2017: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden wins Pulitzer Prize.