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||Oscar Zariski (d. July 4, 1986) was a Russian-born American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century. | ||Oscar Zariski (d. July 4, 1986) was a Russian-born American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century. | ||
||Francis Perrin (d. 1992) was a French physicist, Nuclear High-Commissioner | ||Francis Perrin (d. 1992) was a French physicist, Nuclear High-Commissioner - In 1972, he discovered the Oklo natural reactor. | ||
||1997 – NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars. | ||1997 – NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars. | ||
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1868: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt born. She will discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
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.