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File:Nakaya Ukichiro in 1946.jpg|link=Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|1900: Physicist and academic [[Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|Ukichiro Nakaya]] born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes. | File:Nakaya Ukichiro in 1946.jpg|link=Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|1900: Physicist and academic [[Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|Ukichiro Nakaya]] born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes. | ||
File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication| | ||Peter Guthrie Tait FRSE (died 4 July 1901) was a Scottish mathematical physicist, best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. | ||
File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1902: Judge Havelock and Nikola Tesla demonstrate [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|new data transmission protocol]] which functions as a psychological [[time machine (nonfiction)|time machine]]. | |||
||1934 – Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design that would later be used in the atomic bomb. | ||1934 – Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design that would later be used in the atomic bomb. | ||
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1900: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes.
1902: Judge Havelock and Nikola Tesla demonstrate new data transmission protocol which functions as a psychological time machine.
1951: Physicist and engineer William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
1982: Computer scientist and crime-fighter Joseph Weizenbaum publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams dies.
1998: Signed first edition of Leonardo Draws Clock Head sells for one and a half million dollars.
2005: The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
2017: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration exposes new class of crimes against mathematical constants.