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||1933: Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018).
||1933: Paul J. Crutzen, Dutch chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018).


||1935: Patrick Carl Fischer (December 3, 1935 – August 26, 2011) was an American computer scientist, a noted researcher in computational complexity theory and database theory, and a target of the Unabomber. Pic: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/us/31fischer.html
||1935: Patrick Carl Fischer born ... computer scientist, a noted researcher in computational complexity theory and database theory, and a target of the Unabomber. Pic: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/31/us/31fischer.html


||1938: Sally Shlaer born ... mathematician and engineer.
||1938: Sally Shlaer born ... mathematician and engineer. Pic.


||1953: Paris Christos Kanellakis born ... computer scientist. His scientific contributions lie in the fields of database theory—comprising work on deductive databases, object-oriented databases, and constraint databases—as well as in fault-tolerant distributed computation and in type theory. Pic.
||1953: Paris Christos Kanellakis born ... computer scientist. His scientific contributions lie in the fields of database theory—comprising work on deductive databases, object-oriented databases, and constraint databases—as well as in fault-tolerant distributed computation and in type theory. 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.

    1616: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis born. He will serve as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.

  • 1878: Physicist John Tyndall uses a series of infra-red light devices to send a message from the White House to New Minneapolis in less than seven minutes.

    1878: Physicist John Tyndall uses a series of infra-red light devices to send a message from the White House to New Minneapolis in less than seven minutes.

  • 1909: Electrical engineers John Havelock and Nikolai Tesla invent new data transmission protocols based on the work of mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

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