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||1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany. | ||1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany. | ||
||Gilbert Newton Lewis ForMemRS (d. March 23, 1946) was an American physical chemist known for the discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron pairs; his Lewis dot structures and other contributions to valence bond theory have shaped modern theories of chemical bonding. | |||
||1963 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and logician (b. 1887) | ||1963 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and logician (b. 1887) | ||
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1749: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace born. He will make important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
1882: Mathematician Emmy Noether born. She will make landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
1964: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie uses the wave nature of electrons to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2001: The Mir spacecraft is de-orbited. It had been in orbit for 15 years, it was occupied for ten of those years.
2002: Computer scientist Tony Hoare publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which improve transdimensional quicksort routines.
2011: Jean Bartik dies. She was one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.