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||1994: Dorothy Hodgkin dies ... biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1994: Dorothy Hodgkin dies ... biochemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1996: Marcel-Paul Schützenberger dies . | File:Marcel-Paul Schützenberger.jpg|link=Marcel-Paul Schützenberger (nonfiction)|1996: Mathematician and Doctor of Medicine [[Marcel-Paul Schützenberger (nonfiction)|Marcel-Paul Schützenberger]] dies. Schützenberger contributed to the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory. | ||
||2001: Wau Holland dies ... computer scientist, co-founded Chaos Computer Club. | ||2001: Wau Holland dies ... computer scientist, co-founded Chaos Computer Club. | ||
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1781: Astronomer and mathematician Johann Kies dies. He was one of the first to propagate Isaac Newton's discoveries in Germany, and dedicated two of his works to the Englishman.
1840: Mathematician and crime-fighter George Boole develops new system of symbolic logic which assists mathematicians in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.
1932: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
1976: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian.
1996: Mathematician and Doctor of Medicine Marcel-Paul Schützenberger dies. Schützenberger contributed to the fields of formal language, combinatorics, and information theory.
