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File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1616: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court. | File:John Wallis by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=John Wallis (nonfiction)|1616: Mathematician and cryptographer [[John Wallis (nonfiction)|John Wallis]] born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court. | ||
||1838: Cleveland Abbe born ... meteorologist and academic. | ||1838: Cleveland Abbe born ... meteorologist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1842: Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards born ... industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition. Pic. | ||1842: Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards born ... industrial and safety engineer, environmental chemist, and university faculty member in the United States during the 19th century. She was the founder of the home economics movement characterized by the application of science to the home, and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition. Pic. | ||
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||1886: Manne Siegbahn born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1886: Manne Siegbahn born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1888: Carl Zeiss dies ... physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument. | ||1888: Carl Zeiss dies ... physicist and lens maker, created the optical instrument. Pic. | ||
||1895: Georg Robert Döpel born ... experimental nuclear physicist. Pic. | ||1895: Georg Robert Döpel born ... experimental nuclear physicist. Pic. | ||
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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.
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.