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File:800px-Nebra_Schwerter.jpg|link=Weapon (nonfiction)|Army research laboratories [[Weapon (nonfiction)|convert modern plowshares into ancient swords]].  [[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]] calls technique "Astonishing breakthrough."
 
File:Lex Luthor Action Comics 23.png|link=Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|[[Lex Luthor (nonfiction)|Lex Luthor]] announces new initiative to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Hasegawa Tohaku - Pine Trees (Shōrin-zu byōbu) - left hand screen.jpg|link=Hasegawa Tōhaku (nonfiction)|1610: Painter [[Hasegawa Tōhaku (nonfiction)|Hasegawa Tōhaku]] dies.  Hasegawa Tōhaku founded the Hasegawa school and one of the great painters of the Azuchi–Momoyama period (1573-1603). He is best known for his ''byōbu'' folding screens, such as ''Pine Trees'' and ''Pine Tree and Flowering Plants''.
 
File:Filippo Mazzei.jpg|link=Filippo Mazzei (nonfiction)|1816: Physician and activist [[Filippo Mazzei (nonfiction)|Filippo Mazzei]] dies. Mazzei acted as an arms purchasing agent for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.
 
File:Emil_Wiechert.jpg|link=Emil Wiechert (nonfiction)|1928: Physicist and geophysicist [[Emil Wiechert (nonfiction)|Emil Wiechert]] dies. Wiechert made contributions to both fields, including presenting the first verifiable model of a layered structure of the Earth, and being among the first to discover the electron.
 
File:Gaston_Julia.jpg|link=Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician [[Gaston Julia (nonfiction)|Gaston Maurice Julia]] dies. Julia devised the formula for the Julia set, which consists of values such that an arbitrarily small perturbation can cause drastic changes in the sequence of iterated function values. Julia's work later proved foundational to chaos theory.
 
File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1987: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] dies.  De Broglie postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter was first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.
 
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  • 1610: Painter Hasegawa Tōhaku dies. Hasegawa Tōhaku founded the Hasegawa school and one of the great painters of the Azuchi–Momoyama period (1573-1603). He is best known for his byōbu folding screens, such as Pine Trees and Pine Tree and Flowering Plants.

    1610: Painter Hasegawa Tōhaku dies. Hasegawa Tōhaku founded the Hasegawa school and one of the great painters of the Azuchi–Momoyama period (1573-1603). He is best known for his byōbu folding screens, such as Pine Trees and Pine Tree and Flowering Plants.

  • 1816: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei dies. Mazzei acted as an arms purchasing agent for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

    1816: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei dies. Mazzei acted as an arms purchasing agent for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

  • 1928: Physicist and geophysicist Emil Wiechert dies. Wiechert made contributions to both fields, including presenting the first verifiable model of a layered structure of the Earth, and being among the first to discover the electron.

    1928: Physicist and geophysicist Emil Wiechert dies. Wiechert made contributions to both fields, including presenting the first verifiable model of a layered structure of the Earth, and being among the first to discover the electron.

  • 1978: Mathematician Gaston Maurice Julia dies. Julia devised the formula for the Julia set, which consists of values such that an arbitrarily small perturbation can cause drastic changes in the sequence of iterated function values. Julia's work later proved foundational to chaos theory.

    1978: Mathematician Gaston Maurice Julia dies. Julia devised the formula for the Julia set, which consists of values such that an arbitrarily small perturbation can cause drastic changes in the sequence of iterated function values. Julia's work later proved foundational to chaos theory.

  • 1987: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie dies. De Broglie postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter was first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.

    1987: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie dies. De Broglie postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter was first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.

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