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||1907 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) | ||1907 – Edwin McMillan, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991) | ||
||1908 | ||1908: Victor Amazaspovich Ambartsumian born ... a Soviet Armenian scientist, and one of the founders of theoretical astrophysics. He worked in the field of physics of stars and nebulae, stellar astronomy, dynamics of stellar systems and cosmogony of stars and galaxies, and contributed to mathematical physics. Pic. | ||
File:Einstein drumming.jpg|link=Albert Einstein|1913: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein]] performs at charity concert to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Einstein drumming.jpg|link=Albert Einstein|1913: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein]] performs at charity concert to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. |
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1751: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Pieter van Musschenbroek uses a grid of Leyden jars to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1783: Mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler dies. He made important and influential discoveries in many branches of mathematics, and introduced much of the modern mathematical terminology and notation, such as the notion of a mathematical function.
1913: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein performs at charity concert to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1967: Physicist, academic, and Nobel Prize laureate John Cockcroft dies. He was instrumental in the development of nuclear power.
1976: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.
1977: Voyager 1 takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
1978: Electrical engineer and crime-fighter Florence Violet McKenzie publishes memoirs, reveals that she received messages from AESOP during the Second World War.