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File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1944: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. | File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1944: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. | ||
||1964 | ||1964: Hans von Euler-Chelpin dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1950 | ||1950: Amir Aczel born ... mathematician, historian, and academic. | ||
||1964 | ||1964: Hans von Euler-Chelpin born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
File:Cannikin.jpg|link=Cannikin (nonfiction)|1971: The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named [[Cannikin (nonfiction)|Cannikin]], on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. | File:Cannikin.jpg|link=Cannikin (nonfiction)|1971: The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named [[Cannikin (nonfiction)|Cannikin]], on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. | ||
||Alexander Weinstein | ||1979: Alexander Weinstein dies ... mathematician who worked on boundary value problems in fluid dynamics. Pic. | ||
||Georges Henri Reeb | ||1993: Georges Henri Reeb dies ... mathematician. He worked in differential topology, differential geometry, differential equations, topological dynamical systems theory and non-standard analysis. Pic. | ||
||2002: Sid Sackson dies ... game designer ... board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business game ''Acquire''. | ||2002: Sid Sackson dies ... game designer ... board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business game ''Acquire''. | ||
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File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1973: The ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted. | File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1973: The ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted. | ||
File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2015: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[ | File:Zero knowledge proof.png|link=Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|2015: Advances in [[Zero-knowledge proof (nonfiction)|zero-knowledge proof]] theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter [[Janet Beta]]. | ||
File:Ursa Nano.jpg|link=Ursa Nano (nonfiction)|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Ursa Nano (nonfiction)|Ursa Nano]]'' sells for undisclosed amount in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against light]]. The buyer is reported to be "a prominent mathematician living in [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]." | |||
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1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin dies.
1872: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred Clebsch publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use algebraic geometry and invariant theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1971: The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted.
2015: Advances in zero-knowledge proof theory "are central to the problem of mathematical reliability," says mathematician and crime-fighter Janet Beta.
2017: Signed first edition of Ursa Nano sells for undisclosed amount in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against light. The buyer is reported to be "a prominent mathematician living in New Minneapolis, Canada."