Template:Are You Sure/November 1: Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
(Created page with "• ... that '''George P. Metesky''' terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters,...")
 
No edit summary
Line 1: Line 1:
• ... that '''[[George Metesky (nonfiction)|George P. Metesky]]''' terrorized New York City for 16 years in the 1940s and 1950s with explosives that he planted in theaters, terminals, libraries, and offices?
• ... that File:Theodore Hall ID badge.png|link=Theodore Hall (nonfiction)|1999: American physicist and Soviet spy [[Theodore Hall (nonfiction)|Theodore Hall]] dies.  During his work on US efforts to develop the first and second atomic bombs during World War II (the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]]), Hall gave Soviet intelligence a detailed description of the "Fat Man" plutonium bomb, along with several processes for purifying [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|plutonium]]?


• ... that mathematician and philosopher '''[[George Boole (nonfiction)|George Boole]]''' was a pioneer of algebraic logic, developing Boolean algebra and Boolean logic?
• ... that biochemist and academic '''[[Severo Ochoa (nonfiction)|Severo Ochoa]]''' Arthur Kornberg were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"?


• ... that '''[[Seiche (nonfiction)|seiches]]''' (wave patterns in large inland bodies of water) are vulnerable to both [[crimes against physics]] and [[crimes against chemistry]]?
• ... that aerospace engineer and weapons designer ''[[Ludwig Roth (nonfiction)|Ludwig Roth]]'' headed Germany's Future Projects Office during the Second World War, developing advanced rocket designs; and that near the end of the war, Roth was recruited by American intelligence under [[Operation Paperclip (nonfiction)|Operation Paperclip]]?

Revision as of 05:05, 21 October 2020

• ... that File:Theodore Hall ID badge.png|link=Theodore Hall (nonfiction)|1999: American physicist and Soviet spy Theodore Hall dies. During his work on US efforts to develop the first and second atomic bombs during World War II (the Manhattan Project), Hall gave Soviet intelligence a detailed description of the "Fat Man" plutonium bomb, along with several processes for purifying plutonium?

• ... that biochemist and academic Severo Ochoa Arthur Kornberg were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the mechanisms in the biological synthesis of ribonucleic acid and deoxyribonucleic acid"?

• ... that aerospace engineer and weapons designer Ludwig Roth headed Germany's Future Projects Office during the Second World War, developing advanced rocket designs; and that near the end of the war, Roth was recruited by American intelligence under Operation Paperclip?