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||1900: Richard Kuhn born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1900: Richard Kuhn born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1903: Sydney Goldstein born ... mathematician noted for his contribution to fluid dynamics, notably his work on steady-flow laminar boundary-layer equations and on the turbulent resistance to rotation of a disk in a fluid. Goldstein also contributed to aerodynamics. Pic: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/about-us/history/sydney-goldstein/


||1904: The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
||1904: The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.

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  • 1616: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

  • 2016: Signed first edition of Spiral 2 stolen from the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.

    2016: Signed first edition of Spiral 2 stolen from the Nested Radical coffeehouse in New Minneapolis, Canada by agents of the criminal mathematical function Gnotilus.

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