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||Wolfgang Gröbner (d. 20 August 1980) was an Austrian mathematician. His name is best known for the Gröbner basis, used for computations in algebraic geometry. However, the theory of Gröbner bases for polynomial rings was developed by his student Bruno Buchberger in 1965, who named them for Gröbner. | ||Wolfgang Gröbner (d. 20 August 1980) was an Austrian mathematician. His name is best known for the Gröbner basis, used for computations in algebraic geometry. However, the theory of Gröbner bases for polynomial rings was developed by his student Bruno Buchberger in 1965, who named them for Gröbner. | ||
||Norris Edwin Bradbury (d. 20 August 1997), was an American physicist who served as Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory for 25 years from 1945 to 1970. He succeeded Robert Oppenheimer, who personally chose Bradbury for the position of director after working closely with him on the Manhattan Project during World War II. Bradbury was in charge of the final assembly of "the Gadget", detonated in July 1945 for the Trinity test. Pic. | |||
||2001 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (b. 1915) | ||2001 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (b. 1915) | ||
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1672: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt dies in a riot. The rioters will partially eat his body.
1923: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1961: Physicist and academic Percy Williams Bridgman dies. He won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures.
1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.