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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. | ||
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. | |||
||1979: Alexander Weinstein dies ... mathematician who worked on boundary value problems in fluid dynamics. Pic. | ||1979: Alexander Weinstein dies ... mathematician who worked on boundary value problems in fluid dynamics. Pic. | ||
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||2002: Sid Sackson dies ... game designer ... board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business game ''Acquire''. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=sid+sackson | ||2002: Sid Sackson dies ... game designer ... board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business game ''Acquire''. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=sid+sackson | ||
||2005: Theodore Puck dies ... geneticist. Puck was an early pioneer of "somatic cell genetics" and single-cell plating ( i.e. "cloning" .) This work allowed the genetics of human and other mammalian cells to be studied in detail. Also, Puck's team found that humans had 46 chromosomes rather than 48 which had earlier been believed. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Theodore+Puck+geneticist&oq=Theodore+Puck+geneticist | |||
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: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]]. | ||
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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."