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||1888 – Carl Zeiss, German physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument (b. 1816) | ||1888 – Carl Zeiss, German physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument (b. 1816) | ||
||Georg Robert Döpel (b. 3 December 1895) was a German experimental nuclear physicist. Pic. | |||
||1897 – William Gropper, American cartoonist and painter (d. 1977) Due to his involvement with radical politics in the 1920s and 1930s, Gropper was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953. The experience provided inspirational fodder for a series of fifty lithographs entitled the ''Caprichos''. | ||1897 – William Gropper, American cartoonist and painter (d. 1977) Due to his involvement with radical politics in the 1920s and 1930s, Gropper was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953. The experience provided inspirational fodder for a series of fifty lithographs entitled the ''Caprichos''. | ||
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1616: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1909: Electrical engineers John Havelock and Nikolai Tesla invent new data transmission protocols based on the work of mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis.
1910: Modern neon lighting is first demonstrated by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show.
1911: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1924: Mathematician and computer scientist John Backus born. He will invent the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation to define formal language syntax.
1965: Mathematician and crime-fighter Edward Lorenz publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.