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||Konstantin Petrzhak (d. Oct. 10, 1998) was a Soviet–Russian nuclear physicist and university professor of Polish origin. He discovered spontaneous fission of uranium with Georgy Flyorov in 1940; in addition, he also aided in Soviet Union's atomic bomb project. | ||Konstantin Petrzhak (d. Oct. 10, 1998) was a Soviet–Russian nuclear physicist and university professor of Polish origin. He discovered spontaneous fission of uranium with Georgy Flyorov in 1940; in addition, he also aided in Soviet Union's atomic bomb project. | ||
||1998: William Markowitz dies ... astronomer, principally known for his work on the standardization of time. Pic: https://aas.org/obituaries/william-markowitz-1907-1998 | |||
||Ichirō Satake (d. 10 October 2014) was a mathematician working on algebraic groups who introduced the Satake isomorphism and Satake diagrams. Pic. | ||Ichirō Satake (d. 10 October 2014) was a mathematician working on algebraic groups who introduced the Satake isomorphism and Satake diagrams. Pic. | ||
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1708: Mathematician and astronomer David Gregory dies. At the Union of 1707, he was given the responsibility of reorganizing the Scottish Mint.
1730: Physicist and crime-fighter Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit uses precision thermometry to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1731: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish born. He will discover "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.
1888: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
1889: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren born. He will be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
1943: Mathematician and soldier Janet Beta accepts commission with secret military-intelligence program ENIAC.
2014: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta.