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||1888: Archie Alexander born ... mathematician and engineer | ||1888: Archie Alexander born ... mathematician and engineer | ||
||1893: Ernst Kummer dies ... mathematician and academic, trained German army officers in ballistics. | ||1893: Ernst Kummer dies ... mathematician and academic, trained German army officers in ballistics. Pic. | ||
||1897: Ed Ricketts born ... biologist and ecologist | ||1897: Ed Ricketts born ... biologist and ecologist | ||
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||1899: Charlotte Auerbach born ... folklorist, geneticist, and zoologist. | ||1899: Charlotte Auerbach born ... folklorist, geneticist, and zoologist. | ||
||1899: Pierre Victor Auger born ... physicist ... worked in the fields of atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic ray physics. | ||1899: Pierre Victor Auger born ... physicist ... worked in the fields of atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic ray physics. Pic. | ||
||1904: Hans Albert Einstein born ... engineer and educator. No pic. | ||1904: Hans Albert Einstein born ... engineer and educator. No pic. | ||
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1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.
1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
1680: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to commit series of crimes against mathematical constants.
1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.
2018: Signed first edition of Butterfly unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence after exposure to Cherenkov radiation during an otherwise routine high-energy literature experiment.