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||1914: Louis Couturat dies ... logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist. Pic.
||1914: Louis Couturat dies ... logician, mathematician, philosopher, and linguist. Pic.
File:The Eel Time-Surfing 2.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing 2|1916: Well-known illustration ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing 2]]'' is exhibited in Paris for the first time.


File:Georg Frobenius.jpg|link=Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.
File:Georg Frobenius.jpg|link=Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and academic [[Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (nonfiction)|Ferdinand Georg Frobenius]] dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.


||1918: Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist born ...  chemist and spymaster best known for his involvement with the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s and '60s assassination attempts and mind control program, known as Project MKUltra. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=sidney+gottlieb
File:Sidney_Gottlieb.jpg|link=Sidney Gottlieb (nonfiction)|1918: Chemist and spymaster [[Sidney Gottlieb (nonfiction)|Sidney Gottlieb]] born.  Gottlieb will be known as "America's Poisoner" for his development of assassination weapons for the CIA, and for his leadership in the [[Project MKUltra (nonfiction)|Project MKUltra]] mind control program.  


||1922: Mathias Lerch dies ... mathematician who published about 250 papers, largely on mathematical analysis and number theory. The Lerch zeta-function is named after him as is the Appell–Lerch sum. Pic.
||1922: Mathias Lerch dies ... mathematician who published about 250 papers, largely on mathematical analysis and number theory. The Lerch zeta-function is named after him as is the Appell–Lerch sum. Pic.
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||1942: Richard Willstätter dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1942: Richard Willstätter dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1943: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1948: Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
||1948: Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
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||2012: Martin Fleischmann dies ... chemist and academic.
||2012: Martin Fleischmann dies ... chemist and academic.


File:Green_Spiral_9.jpg|link=Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Green Spiral 9 (nonfiction)|Green Spiral 9]]'' "feels more green than ever," according to new [[Chromatography (nonfiction)|chromatographic analysis]].


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  • 1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system." Pic.

    1792: Inventor, engineer, and businessman Richard Arkwright dies. Later in his life Arkwright was known as the "father of the modern industrial factory system." Pic.

  • 1917: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand Georg Frobenius dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.

    1917: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand Georg Frobenius dies. He made contributions to the theory of elliptic functions, differential equations, and group theory.

  • 1918: Chemist and spymaster Sidney Gottlieb born. Gottlieb will be known as "America's Poisoner" for his development of assassination weapons for the CIA, and for his leadership in the Project MKUltra mind control program.

    1918: Chemist and spymaster Sidney Gottlieb born. Gottlieb will be known as "America's Poisoner" for his development of assassination weapons for the CIA, and for his leadership in the Project MKUltra mind control program.

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