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||Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger (d. 27 June 1980) was a German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Center. Pic. | |||
||1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4. | ||1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4. | ||
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1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
1880: Mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt dies. He contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1975: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
2010: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says Niles Cartouchian (1900s).