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||1899: Otis Barton born ... diver, engineer, and actor, designed the bathysphere. | ||1899: Otis Barton born ... diver, engineer, and actor, designed the bathysphere. | ||
||1900: Dennis Gabor born . | File:Dennis Gabor.jpg|link=Dennis Gabor (nonfiction)|1900: Physicist and engineer [[Dennis Gabor (nonfiction)|Dennis Gabor]] born. He will invent holography, for which he will receive the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics. | ||
||1905: Wolfgang Karl Ernst Finkelnburg born ... physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, atomic physics, the structure of matter, and high-temperature arc discharges. Pic: https://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenlichkeiten/wolfgang-finkelnburg-/DE-2086/lido/57c6ad4ac556e0.88918046 | ||1905: Wolfgang Karl Ernst Finkelnburg born ... physicist who made contributions to spectroscopy, atomic physics, the structure of matter, and high-temperature arc discharges. Pic: https://www.rheinische-geschichte.lvr.de/Persoenlichkeiten/wolfgang-finkelnburg-/DE-2086/lido/57c6ad4ac556e0.88918046 | ||
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1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.
1865: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1900: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor born. He will invent holography, for which he will receive the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.
2004: John Brunner publishes history of crimes against mathematical constants.
2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".