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||2005 – Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (b. 1927) | ||2005 – Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (b. 1927) | ||
||Ali Javan (d. September 12, 2016) was an Iranian-American physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Pic. | |||
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2017: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize. | File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2017: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize. | ||
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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.