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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.

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 ||1894 – Dorothy Maud Wrinch, Argentinian-English mathematician, biochemist and philosopher (d. 1976)
+||Frans Michel Penning (b. 12 September 1894) was a Dutch experimental physicist. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1923, and studied low pressure gas discharges at the Philips Laboratory in Eindhoven, developing new electron tubes during World War II. Pic.
 ||1897 – Irène Joliot-Curie, French chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1956)
-||Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa (February 7, 1833, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Caribbean – September 12, 1900) was an American physician.
+||Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa (d. September 12, 1900) was an American physician.
 ||Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel (b. 12 September 1877) was a German mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device.