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• ... that theoretical physicist '''[[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]]''' (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons, and later, early models of the hydrogen bomb; that Fuchs supplied information Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War; that he was tried and convicted in 1950; and that Fuchs "felt that if the Soviet Union had the wherewithal to make its own bomb, this would prevent its misuse by one nation alone," and that he "was hardly a traitor in the usual sense of the word ... he was deeply opposed to war and acted on his conscience."?
[[File:Analytical Engine printer.jpg|link=Analytical_Engine_(nonfiction)|200px|thumb|An early version of Charles Babbage's [[Analytical Engine (nonfiction)|Analytical Engine]].]]


• ... that mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer '''[[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]]''' (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was a pioneer of programmable computing?
• ... that mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer '''[[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]]''' (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was a pioneer of programmable computing, and that his [[Analytical Engine (nonfiction)|Analytical Engine]], while not commercially successful as Babbage had hoped, profoundly influenced later generations of computer designs.


• ... that the publication of '''''[[Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule]]''''' in 2017 generated new interest in [[Organic golem|organic golems]]?
• ... that the publication of '''''[[Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule]]''''' in 2017 generated new interest in [[Organic golem|organic golems]]?

Latest revision as of 08:06, 18 October 2020

An early version of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine.

• ... that mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was a pioneer of programmable computing, and that his Analytical Engine, while not commercially successful as Babbage had hoped, profoundly influenced later generations of computer designs.

• ... that the publication of Bioautography of a Chlorophyll Molecule in 2017 generated new interest in organic golems?

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