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||1918: José Leite Lopes born ... theoretical physicist who worked in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics. Political refugee from Brazil. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=José+Leite+Lopes | ||1918: José Leite Lopes born ... theoretical physicist who worked in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics. Political refugee from Brazil. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=José+Leite+Lopes | ||
||1919: Gerhard Ringel born ... mathematician. He was one of the pioneers in graph theory and contributed significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (now the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four Color Theorem. Pic. | ||1919: Gerhard Ringel born ... mathematician. He was one of the pioneers in graph theory and contributed significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (now the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four Color Theorem. Pic (surfing!). | ||
||1919: The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January. | ||1919: The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January. | ||
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||1994: Calvin Souther Fuller dies ... physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked for 37 years from 1930 to 1967. Fuller was part of a team in basic research that found answers to physical challenges. He helped develop synthetic rubber during World War II, he was involved in early experiments of zone melting, he is credited with devising the method of transistor production yielding diffusion transistors, he produced some of the first solar cells with high efficiency, and he researched polymers and their applications. | ||1994: Calvin Souther Fuller dies ... physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked for 37 years from 1930 to 1967. Fuller was part of a team in basic research that found answers to physical challenges. He helped develop synthetic rubber during World War II, he was involved in early experiments of zone melting, he is credited with devising the method of transistor production yielding diffusion transistors, he produced some of the first solar cells with high efficiency, and he researched polymers and their applications. | ||
||1998: | ||1998: Tommy Flowers dies ... engineer with the British Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages. Pic. | ||
||2004: Ted Taylor dies ... theoretical physicist. He contributed to fission nuclear weapon development, designing the smallest fission bomb of the era ("Davy Crockett"), which weighed only 60 pounds. His later career focused on nuclear energy. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ted+Taylor+(physicist) | ||2004: Ted Taylor dies ... theoretical physicist. He contributed to fission nuclear weapon development, designing the smallest fission bomb of the era ("Davy Crockett"), which weighed only 60 pounds. His later career focused on nuclear energy. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ted+Taylor+(physicist) | ||
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1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Jean le Rond d'Alembert uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to crimes against mathematical constants.
1892: Charles-Émile Reynaud performs the first of his Pantomimes Lumineuses shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.
2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
Illustration of Cantor Parabola contains "several terabytes of encrypted data," according to new steganographic analysis.