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||1962 – Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic (b. 1866)
||1962 – Charles Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic (b. 1866)
||Henrietta Bolt


File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1972: The ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1972: The ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
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||1995 – Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
||1995 – Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.


||Jordan Carson Mark (d. March 2, 1997) was a Canadian-born mathematician best known for his work on developing nuclear weapons for the United States at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Mark joined the Manhattan Project in 1945, and continued to work at Los Alamos under the leadership of Norris Bradbury after World War II ended. He became the leader of the Theoretical Division at the laboratory in 1947, a position he held until 1973. He oversaw the development of new weapons, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s. On the hydrogen bomb project he was able to bring together experts like Edward Teller, Stanislaw Ulam and Marshall Holloway despite their personal differences.
File:Jordan Carson Mark.gif|link=Jordan Carson Mark (nonfiction)|1997: Mathematician [[Jordan Carson Mark (nonfiction)|Jordan Carson Mark]]. He was the leader of the Theoretical Division at the Los Alamos laboratory, where he oversaw the development of new weapons, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s.


||1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.
||1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of ice.

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