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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. | ||
||Maxime Bôcher (d. September 12, 1918) was an American mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher's theorem, Bôcher's equation, and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after him. | |||
||1923 – Jules Violle, French physicist and academic (b. 1841) | ||1923 – Jules Violle, French physicist and academic (b. 1841) | ||
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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.