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||1921: Vitold Belevitch born ... mathematician and electrical engineer of Russian origin who produced some important work in the field of electrical network theory. | ||1921: Vitold Belevitch born ... mathematician and electrical engineer of Russian origin who produced some important work in the field of electrical network theory. | ||
||1922: Frances Spence born ... | ||1922: Frances Spence born ... one of the original programmers for the ENIAC. Pic. | ||
||1913: Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov born ... physicist who is known for his discovery of the spontaneous fission and his contribution towards the physics of thermal reactions. | ||1913: Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov born ... physicist who is known for his discovery of the spontaneous fission and his contribution towards the physics of thermal reactions. | ||
||1924: David Sayre born ... physicist and mathematician ... pioneered the development of direct methods for protein crystallography and of diffraction microscopy (also called coherent diffraction imaging), later suggesting the use of electron beam lithography for the fabrication of X-ray Fresnel zone plates. Sayre also helped develop the FORTRAN programming language. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=david+sayre | |||
||1927: Kurt Leichtweiss born ... mathematician specializing in convex and differential geometry. Pic. | ||1927: Kurt Leichtweiss born ... mathematician specializing in convex and differential geometry. Pic. | ||
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1453: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel born. He will publish numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.
1478: Artist, inventor, and crime-fighter Leonardo da Vinci writes a letter to Johannes Engel, suggesting the need for an almanac of crimes against astronomical constants.
1791: Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore telegraph machine in Paris.
1911: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington builds new type of scrying engine which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.
1972: The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the outer planets.
1997: Mathematician Jordan Carson Mark dies. He oversaw the development of nuclear weapons for the US military, including the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s.
2017: Famed gem detective Niles Cartouchian captures supervillain Fugitive Rubies.