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||1921 – Geraldine Pittman Woods, American science administrator and embryologist (d. 1999) | ||1921 – Geraldine Pittman Woods, American science administrator and embryologist (d. 1999) | ||
||1926 | File:Abdus Salam 1987.jpg|link=Abdus Salam (nonfiction)|1926: Theoretical physicist [[Abdus Salam (nonfiction)|Mohammad Abdus Salam]] born. He will share the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory. | ||
||1929 – Joseph Kruskal, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2010) | ||1929 – Joseph Kruskal, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2010). No pic. | ||
File:Paul Sally 2008.jpg|link=Paul Sally (nonfiction)|1933: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Sally (nonfiction)|Paul Sally]] born. He will be known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago". | File:Paul Sally 2008.jpg|link=Paul Sally (nonfiction)|1933: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Sally (nonfiction)|Paul Sally]] born. He will be known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago". | ||
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|File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1944: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]]. | |File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1944: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]]. | ||
||William Francis Gray Swann (d. January 29, 1962) was an Anglo-American physicist. | ||William Francis Gray Swann (d. January 29, 1962) was an Anglo-American physicist. No pic. | ||
File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1997: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] refuses to disclose private key. | |File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1997: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] refuses to disclose private key. | ||
File:Fugitive Rubies and hand x-ray.jpg|link=Evil bit release|2009: New study links [[Evil bit release]] with [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]]. | File:Fugitive Rubies and hand x-ray.jpg|link=Evil bit release|2009: New study links [[Evil bit release]] with [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]]. | ||
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1688: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg born.
1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear dies.
1916: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Cherenkov radiation.
1926: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam born. He will share the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.
1933: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally born. He will be known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".
1934: Chemist Fritz Haber dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.
2009: New study links Evil bit release with capacitor plague.