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||1908: Aurelio Peccei born ... industrialist and philanthropist, best known as co-founder with Alexander King and first president of the Club of Rome, an organisation which attracted considerable public attention in 1972 with its report, The Limits to Growth. Pic. | ||1908: Aurelio Peccei born ... industrialist and philanthropist, best known as co-founder with Alexander King and first president of the Club of Rome, an organisation which attracted considerable public attention in 1972 with its report, The Limits to Growth. Pic. | ||
||1911: Frederick Seitz born ... physicist and a pioneer of solid state physics. Pic. | |||
||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 | ||
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1816: Inventor and APTO field engineer Nicéphore Niépce uses the heliograph to reveal the Forbidden ratio, a pioneering step towards modern methods for detecting and preventing crimes against light.
1868: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt born. She will discover the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
1900: Physicist and academic Ukichiro Nakaya born. He will create the first artificial snowflakes.
1934: Leo Szilard patents the chain-reaction design that will later be used in the atomic bomb.
1935: Outbreak of Geometrical frustration exposes new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1951: Physicist and engineer William Shockley announces the invention of the junction transistor.
1982: Computer scientist and crime-fighter Joseph Weizenbaum publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1983: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams dies.
1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series publishes complete plans for nuclear-powered fireworks display.
2005: The Deep Impact collider hits the comet Tempel 1.
2016: Fireworks in the shape of Crimson Blossom make their debut at the annual Accession Day fireworks display in New Minneapolis, Canada.