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||1933: Marvin Isadore Knopp born ... mathematician who worked primarily in number theory. He made notable contributions to the theory of modular forms. Pic: https://news.temple.edu/news/2012-11-13/mathematics-conference-honors-late-temple-professor-marvin-knopp
||1933: Marvin Isadore Knopp born ... mathematician who worked primarily in number theory. He made notable contributions to the theory of modular forms. Pic: https://news.temple.edu/news/2012-11-13/mathematics-conference-honors-late-temple-professor-marvin-knopp


File:Dmitry_Mirimanoff.jpg|link=Dmitry Mirimanoff (nonfiction)|1934: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Dmitry Mirimanoff (nonfiction)|Dmitry Mirimanoff]] publishes new type of [[Gnomon algorithm function]] which uses non-well-founded set theory to predict that [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]] will fall to Earth "no later than January 1958."
File:Dmitry_Mirimanoff.jpg|link=Dmitry Mirimanoff (nonfiction)|1934: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Dmitry Mirimanoff (nonfiction)|Dmitry Mirimanoff]] publishes new type of [[Gnomon algorithm function]] which uses non-well-founded set theory to predict that Sputnik 1 will fall to Earth "no later than January 1958."


File:Sputnik 1.jpg|link=Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|1958: [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]] falls to Earth from orbit.
File:Sputnik 1.jpg|link=Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|1958: [[Sputnik 1 (nonfiction)|Sputnik 1]] falls to Earth from orbit.
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File:Luna 1 (museum replica).jpg|link=Luna 1 (nonfiction)|1959: [[Luna 1 (nonfiction)|Luna 1]] becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
File:Luna 1 (museum replica).jpg|link=Luna 1 (nonfiction)|1959: [[Luna 1 (nonfiction)|Luna 1]] becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
File:Arnold Flammersfeld.jpg|link=Arnold  Flammersfeld (nonfiction)|1960: Nuclear physicist and Gnomon algorithm theorist [[Arnold  Flammersfeld (nonfiction)|Arnold Flammersfeld]] uses the ratio of neutrons liberated to neutrons absorbed in uranium to defeat the Forbidden Ratio in single combat.


File:Erwin Schrödinger (1933).jpg|link=Erwin Schrödinger (nonfiction)|1961: Physicist and academic [[Erwin Schrödinger (nonfiction)|Erwin Schrödinger]] dies. He was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics for the formulation of the Schrödinger equation.
File:Erwin Schrödinger (1933).jpg|link=Erwin Schrödinger (nonfiction)|1961: Physicist and academic [[Erwin Schrödinger (nonfiction)|Erwin Schrödinger]] dies. He was awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics for the formulation of the Schrödinger equation.

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