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||2002: George Porter dies ... chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Pic. | ||2002: George Porter dies ... chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Pic. | ||
||2002: Chemist Martin Kaymen dies ... together with Sam Ruben, co-discovered the synthesis of the isotope carbon-14 on February 27, 1940, at the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=martin+kamen | |||
||2005: Joseph Rotblat dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||2005: Joseph Rotblat dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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File:Flow Chart.jpg|link=Flow Chart (nonfiction)|2006: [[Flow Chart (nonfiction)|Flow Chart]] voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Flow Chart.jpg|link=Flow Chart (nonfiction)|2006: [[Flow Chart (nonfiction)|Flow Chart]] voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
||2006: Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police. | ||2006: Edvard Munch's famous painting ''The Scream'', stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police. | ||
||2013: Jan Camiel Willems dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search yes:https://www.google.com/search?q=Jan+Camiel+Willems | ||2013: Jan Camiel Willems dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search yes:https://www.google.com/search?q=Jan+Camiel+Willems | ||
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1635: Mathematician, theologian, and crime-fighter Marin Mersenne uses new theory of acoustics to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1899: Georg Cantor writes to Dedekind, remarking that his "diagonal process" could be used to show that the power set of a set has more elements than the set itself.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
1950: Mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel addresses the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on his work in relativity theory.
2006: Flow Chart voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."