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File:Venus Express in orbit.jpg|link=Venus Express (nonfiction)|2005: The [[Venus Express (nonfiction)|Venus Express]] mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. | File:Venus Express in orbit.jpg|link=Venus Express (nonfiction)|2005: The [[Venus Express (nonfiction)|Venus Express]] mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. | ||
||2006: Markus Wolf dies ... German intelligence officer. | ||2006: Markus Wolf dies ... German intelligence officer. Pic. | ||
||2007: The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause. | ||2007: The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of citizens' telecommunications traffic data for six months without probable cause. | ||
||2008: Hans Freeman dies ... bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer. | ||2008: Hans Freeman dies ... bioinorganic chemist and protein crystallographer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hans+Freeman | ||
||2011: Har Gobind Khorana dies ... biochemist. He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell’s synthesis of proteins. Pic. | ||2011: Har Gobind Khorana dies ... biochemist. He shared the 1968 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Marshall W. Nirenberg and Robert W. Holley for research that showed the order of nucleotides in nucleic acids, which carry the genetic code of the cell and control the cell’s synthesis of proteins. Pic. | ||
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1885: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Hermann Weyl born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century: his research will have major significance for theoretical physics as well as purely mathematical disciplines including number theory.
1920: Materials engineer and academic Philip G. Hodge born. He will study the mechanics of elastic and plastic behavior of materials, contributing to plasticity theory including developments in the method of characteristics, limit-analysis, piecewise linear isotropic plasticity, and nonlinear programming applications.
1922: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Imre Lakatos born. He will be known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its 'methodology of proofs and refutations' in its pre-axiomatic stages of development.
2005: The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2017: First use of Weyl semimetal crystals as a quantum time machine which detects and prevents crimes against mathematical constants.