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||1979: Helmut Hasse dies ... mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of p-adic numbers to local class field theory and diophantine geometry (Hasse principle), and to local zeta functions. Pic. | ||1979: Helmut Hasse dies ... mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of p-adic numbers to local class field theory and diophantine geometry (Hasse principle), and to local zeta functions. Pic. | ||
||1981: Henry Eyring dies ... chemist ... chemical reaction rates and intermediates. Pic. | |||
||1991: The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union. | ||1991: The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union. | ||
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1791: Polymath Charles Babbage born. He will construct mechanical computers which anticipate the concept of programmable digital computers.
1896: Physician and physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond dies. He discovered nerve action potential, and developed experimental electrophysiology.
1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1899: Engineer and crime-fighter Gustave Eiffel uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
2006: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal dies. Kruskal made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Blue Foliage 2 unexpectedly reveals "at least five kilobytes" of encrypted data.
2019: Karl Jones takes a photograph of himself wearing red and green Christmas lights.