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||1998: Frank Rowlett dies ... cryptologist. Pic. | ||1998: Frank Rowlett dies ... cryptologist. Pic. | ||
||2002: Ole-Johan Dahl born ... computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ole-Johan+Dahl | |||
||2013: Margherita Hack dies ... astrophysicist and author. Pic. | ||2013: Margherita Hack dies ... astrophysicist and author. Pic. | ||
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1868: Astronomer and journalist George Ellery Hale born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.
1869: Niles Cartouchian and Egon Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus wins Pulitzer Prize for Most Astonishing Illustration of the Year.
1895: Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley dies. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1896: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky born. He will work with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
1963: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov uses new theory of quantum electronics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.