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||1999: NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere. | ||1999: NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere. | ||
File:Genesis spacecraft in collection mode.jpg|link=Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2001: The ''[[Genesis (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Genesis]]'' spacecraft exposes its collector arrays, beginning collection of solar wind particles. The collection process will end after 850 days, on April 1, 2004, with the spacecraft completing five halo loops around L1. | |||
||2004: Shiing-Shen Chern dies ... mathematician and academic ... fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He was widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century | ||2004: Shiing-Shen Chern dies ... mathematician and academic ... fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He was widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century | ||
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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.
2001: The Genesis spacecraft exposes its collector arrays, beginning collection of solar wind particles. The collection process will end after 850 days, on April 1, 2004, with the spacecraft completing five halo loops around L1.