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||1900 – Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974) | ||1900 – Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974) | ||
||Eugène-Anatole Demarçay (d. 5 March 1903) was a French chemist. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas. During an experiment, an explosion destroyed the sight in one of his eyes. He isolated the element europium in 1896; in 1898 he used his skills of spectroscopy to help Marie Curie confirm that she had discovered the element radium. Pic. | |||
||Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams (b. 5 March 1903), was a Welsh physicist, noted for his research on electronic instrumentation for use in nuclear physics. His work on the scale-of-two counter contributed to the development of the modern computer. | ||Charles Eryl Wynn-Williams (b. 5 March 1903), was a Welsh physicist, noted for his research on electronic instrumentation for use in nuclear physics. His work on the scale-of-two counter contributed to the development of the modern computer. | ||
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1223 BC: Solar eclipse occurs; the event is recorded in a Syrian clay tablet, in the Ugaritic language.
1499: Polymath Johannes Trithemius uses Gnomon algorithm functions to generate new class of cryptographic numen.
1574: Mathematician William Oughtred born. He will invent the slide rule in 1622.
1615: Mathematician and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei prevents alleged supervillain Anarchimedes from assassinating mathematician William Oughtred.
1616: Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
1640: Didacus automaton attends and records lecture by William Oughtred, which it will later use to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1827: Mathematician and astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace dies. He made important contributions to mathematics, statistics, physics and astronomy.
1836: Inventor Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1926: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann reverse-engineers Didacus automaton, retrieves complete copy of lecture by William Oughtred.
2008: Computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum dies. He is considered one of the fathers of modern artificial intelligence.
2009: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Gnomon algorithm techniques.
2016: Computer programmer and engineer Ray Tomlinson dies. He implemented the first email system on ARPANET, including the "@" separator which is still in use today.