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||2016 – Duane Clarridge, American spy (b. 1932) | ||2016 – Duane Clarridge, American spy (b. 1932) | ||
||Walter Kohn (d. April 19, 2016) was an Austrian-born American theoretical physicist and theoretical chemist. He was awarded, with John Pople, the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998. The award recognized their contributions to the understandings of the electronic properties of materials. | |||
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1572: New method for predicting lottery winners reveals new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1912: Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg born. He will share the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the synthesis, discovery, and investigation of transuranium elements.
1913: Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most prescient illustration of the decade".
1914: Mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce dies. He is remembered as "the father of pragmatism".
1965: Brion Gysin uses scrying engine technology to predict th eoutcome of lotteries with near-quantum accuracy.