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||1904: Georgi Delchev Bradistilov born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1904: Georgi Delchev Bradistilov born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1910: William Higinbotham born ... physicist, member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb, he later became a leader in the nonproliferation movement. Also: video game designer. Pic search | ||1910: William Higinbotham born ... physicist, member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb, he later became a leader in the nonproliferation movement. Also: video game designer. Pic search. | ||
||1910: Mathematician and logician Gholam Hossein Mosaheb born. Pic. Birth/death dates confusion, see: http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/mosaheb-gholam-hosayn | ||1910: Mathematician and logician Gholam Hossein Mosaheb born. Pic. Birth/death dates confusion, see: http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/mosaheb-gholam-hosayn | ||
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File:Peter_Naur.jpg|link=Peter Naur (nonfiction)|1928: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic [[Peter Naur (nonfiction)|Peter]] Naur born. He will contribute to the design, structure, and performance of computer programs and algorithms. | File:Peter_Naur.jpg|link=Peter Naur (nonfiction)|1928: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic [[Peter Naur (nonfiction)|Peter]] Naur born. He will contribute to the design, structure, and performance of computer programs and algorithms. | ||
||1929: Astronomer and academic Roger John Tayler born. astronomer. In his scientific work, Professor Tayler made important contributions to stellar structure and evolution, plasma stability, nucleogenesis and cosmology. Pic search | ||1929: Astronomer and academic Roger John Tayler born. astronomer. In his scientific work, Professor Tayler made important contributions to stellar structure and evolution, plasma stability, nucleogenesis and cosmology. Pic search. | ||
||1933: Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1933: Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
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||1944: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich. | ||1944: Heinrich Himmler orders a crackdown on the Edelweiss Pirates, a loosely organized youth culture in Nazi Germany that had assisted army deserters and others to hide from the Third Reich. | ||
||1949: Mary Acworth Evershed dies ... astronomer and Dante scholar. Pic search | ||1949: Mary Acworth Evershed dies ... astronomer and Dante scholar. Pic search. | ||
|File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1962: The [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition. | |File:Tunguska-Preservation-TV.jpg|link=Tunguska Event Preservation Society|1962: The [[Tunguska Event Preservation Society]] launches fundraiser to simulate the 1927 Tunguska expedition. | ||
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||1971: Mikhail Yangel dies ... leading missile designer in the Soviet Union. Pic. | ||1971: Mikhail Yangel dies ... leading missile designer in the Soviet Union. Pic. | ||
||1987: John Ashworth Ratcliffe dies ... radio physicist. Pic search. | |||
||1997: Mina Spiegel Rees dies ... mathematician. She was a pioneer in the history of computing and helped establish funding streams and institutional infrastructure for research. Pic. | ||1997: Mina Spiegel Rees dies ... mathematician. She was a pioneer in the history of computing and helped establish funding streams and institutional infrastructure for research. Pic. | ||
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1647: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli dies. He invented the barometer, made advances in optics, and worked on the method of indivisibles.
1713: Gottfried Leibniz, in a letter to Johann Bernoulli, observed that an alternating series whose terms monotonically decrease to zero in absolute value is convergent.
1923: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky demonstrates experimental helicopter which uses time crystals (nonfiction) to reduce fuel cost.
1927: Writer and alleged troll Culvert Origenes received Pulitzer Prize for his essay on Alice Beta's contributions to Gnomon algorithm theory.
1927: Mathematician, naval engineer, and cryptid-hunter Aleksey Krylov publishes his pioneering theory of efficient computation, later known as Krylon's Gnomon algorithm, which detects and repels aquatic cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter.
1928: Computer scientist, astronomer, and academic Peter Naur born. He will contribute to the design, structure, and performance of computer programs and algorithms.
1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alfred Tarski publishes new theory of metamathematical analysis which quickly finds applications in the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants.