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File:Nakaya Ukichiro in 1946.jpg|link=Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|1900: Physicist and academic [[Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|Ukichiro Nakaya]] born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes.
File:Nakaya Ukichiro in 1946.jpg|link=Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|1900: Physicist and academic [[Ukichiro Nakaya (nonfiction)|Ukichiro Nakaya]] born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes.


||1901: Peter Guthrie Tait dies ... mathematical physicist, best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline.
||1901: Peter Tait dies ... mathematical physicist, best known for the mathematical physics textbook Treatise on Natural Philosophy, which he co-wrote with Kelvin, and his early investigations into knot theory, which contributed to the eventual formation of topology as a mathematical discipline. Pic.


File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1902: Judge Havelock and Nikola Tesla demonstrate [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|new data transmission protocol]] which functions as a psychological [[time machine (nonfiction)|time machine]].
File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1902: Judge Havelock and Nikola Tesla demonstrate [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|new data transmission protocol]] which functions as a psychological [[time machine (nonfiction)|time machine]].
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||1919: Keith Batey born ... a codebreaker who, with his wife, Mavis Batey, worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during World War. Pic: http://spartacus-educational.com/Keith_Batey.htm
||1919: Keith Batey born ... a codebreaker who, with his wife, Mavis Batey, worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during World War. Pic: http://spartacus-educational.com/Keith_Batey.htm


||1922: Émile Zuckerkandl born ... biologist considered one of the founders of the field of molecular evolution. He is best known for introducing, with Linus Pauling, the concept of the "molecular clock", which enabled the neutral theory of molecular evolution.
||1922: Émile Zuckerkandl born ... biologist considered one of the founders of the field of molecular evolution. He is best known for introducing, with Linus Pauling, the concept of the "molecular clock", which enabled the neutral theory of molecular evolution. Pic.


||1928: Jürgen Kurt Moser born ... mathematician, honored for work spanning over 4 decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations.
||1928: Jürgen Kurt Moser born ... mathematician, honored for work spanning over 4 decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations. Pic.


||1932: Katharine Blodgett Gebbie born ... astrophysicist and civil servant.
||1932: Katharine Blodgett Gebbie born ... astrophysicist and civil servant. Pic.


File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1934: [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb.
File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1934: [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leo Szilard]] patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb.


||1941: Włodzimierz Stożek dies ... mathematician.  He published numerous papers on the theory of integral equations, potential theory, as well as on many other branches of mathematics. Pic. – Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
||1941: Włodzimierz Stożek dies ... mathematician.  He published numerous papers on the theory of integral equations, potential theory, as well as on many other branches of mathematics. Pic. – Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv. Pic.


File:William Shockley.jpg|link=William Shockley (nonfiction)|1951: Physicist and engineer [[William Shockley (nonfiction)|William Shockley]] announces the invention of the junction transistor.
File:William Shockley.jpg|link=William Shockley (nonfiction)|1951: Physicist and engineer [[William Shockley (nonfiction)|William Shockley]] announces the invention of the junction transistor.
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||1962: Thomas Jefferson Jackson dies ... astronomer whose promulgated theories in astronomy and physics were eventually disproven. His educational and professional career were dogged by conflict, including his attacks on relativity. He was fired from his position at two observatories, eventually serving out his professional years in an island outpost in California. Pic.
||1962: Thomas Jefferson Jackson dies ... astronomer whose promulgated theories in astronomy and physics were eventually disproven. His educational and professional career were dogged by conflict, including his attacks on relativity. He was fired from his position at two observatories, eventually serving out his professional years in an island outpost in California. Pic.


||1977: The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit
||1977: The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit.


File:Joseph Weizenbaum.jpg|link=Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|1982:  Computer scientist and crime-fighter [[Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|Joseph Weizenbaum]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Joseph Weizenbaum.jpg|link=Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|1982:  Computer scientist and crime-fighter [[Joseph Weizenbaum (nonfiction)|Joseph Weizenbaum]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:John Bodkin Adams 1940s.jpg|link=John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer [[John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|John Bodkin Adams]] dies.
File:John Bodkin Adams 1940s.jpg|link=John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer [[John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|John Bodkin Adams]] dies.


|File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1962: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series publishes complete plans for nuclear-powered fireworks display.
File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1962: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series publishes complete plans for nuclear-powered fireworks display.


||1986: Oscar Zariski dies ... was a Russian-born American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.
||1986: Oscar Zariski dies ... was a Russian-born American mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century. Pic.


||1990: Marshall Hall, Jr. dies ... was an American mathematician who made significant contributions to group theory and combinatorics.
||1990: Marshall Hall, Jr. dies ... was an American mathematician who made significant contributions to group theory and combinatorics. Pic.


||1992: Francis Perrin dies ... was a French physicist, Nuclear High-Commissioner - In 1972, he discovered the Oklo natural reactor.
||1992: Francis Perrin dies ... was a French physicist, Nuclear High-Commissioner - In 1972, he discovered the Oklo natural reactor. Pic.


||1993: Yvette Amice dies ... mathematician whose research concerned number theory and p-adic analysis. Pic: http://johnbcosgrave.com/archive/oxford.htm.
||1993: Yvette Amice dies ... mathematician whose research concerned number theory and p-adic analysis. Pic: http://johnbcosgrave.com/archive/oxford.htm.
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||1997: Miguel Najdorf dies ... chess player and theoretician. Pic.
||1997: Miguel Najdorf dies ... chess player and theoretician. Pic.


||1997: NASA's Pathfinder space probe lands on the surface of Mars.
||1997: NASA's ''Pathfinder'' space probe lands on the surface of Mars.


File:Leonardo Draws Clock Head.jpg|link=Leonardo Draws Clock Head|1998: Signed first edition of ''[[Leonardo Draws Clock Head]]'' sells for one and a half million dollars.
File:Leonardo Draws Clock Head.jpg|link=Leonardo Draws Clock Head|1998: Signed first edition of ''[[Leonardo Draws Clock Head]]'' sells for one and a half million dollars.
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||2012: The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.
||2012: The discovery of particles consistent with the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider is announced at CERN.


||2016: The arrival of the Juno probe to Jupiter.
||2016: The arrival of the ''Juno'' probe to Jupiter.


File:Geometrical frustration icosahedron.jpg|link=Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|2017: Outbreak of [[Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|Geometrical frustration]] exposes new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Geometrical frustration icosahedron.jpg|link=Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|2017: Outbreak of [[Geometrical frustration (nonfiction)|Geometrical frustration]] exposes new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].

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