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||1907: Major General Kenneth David "Nick" Nichols born ... United States Army officer and an engineer. He worked on the Manhattan Project, which developed the Atomic Bomb during World War II, as Deputy District Engineer to James C. Marshall, and from 13 August 1943 as the District Engineer of the Manhattan Engineer District. He was responsible for both the uranium production facility at the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and the plutonium production facility at Hanford Engineer Works in Washington state.
||1907: Major General Kenneth David "Nick" Nichols born ... United States Army officer and an engineer. He worked on the Manhattan Project, which developed the Atomic Bomb during World War II, as Deputy District Engineer to James C. Marshall, and from 13 August 1943 as the District Engineer of the Manhattan Engineer District. He was responsible for both the uranium production facility at the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and the plutonium production facility at Hanford Engineer Works in Washington state.


||1913: V. Appapillai born ... physicist and academic.
||1911: Heinz von Foerster born ... physicist and philosopher. A polymath, von Foerster gained renown in fields from computer science and artificial intelligence to epistemology, and researched high-speed electronics and electro-optics switching devices as a physicist, and in biophysics, the study of memory and knowledge. He worked on cognition based on neurophysiology, mathematics, and philosophy. Pic.


||1920: Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan born ... mathematician known for his work in number theory. Pic.
||1920: Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan born ... mathematician known for his work in number theory. Pic.

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  • 1705: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1705: Mathematician, philosopher, and crime-fighter Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1841: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.

    1841: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.

  • 1962: Mathematician and APTO Chancellor Hanna Neumann co-publishes Wreath products and varieties of Gnomon algorithm groups (with her husband Bernhard and eldest son Peter).

    1962: Mathematician and APTO Chancellor Hanna Neumann co-publishes Wreath products and varieties of Gnomon algorithm groups (with her husband Bernhard and eldest son Peter).

  • 1969: Actor Gerard Butler born.

    1969: Actor Gerard Butler born.

  • 2013: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.

    2013: Steganographic analysis of the well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.

  • 2014: Mathematician and theorist Alexander Grothendieck dies. He was the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.

    2014: Mathematician and theorist Alexander Grothendieck dies. He was the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.

  • 2017: Action-adventure film London Has Swollen opens to rave reviews.

    2017: Action-adventure film London Has Swollen opens to rave reviews.

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