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||Andrew Talcott (b. 1883) was an American civil engineer and close friend of Civil War General Robert E. Lee. | ||Andrew Talcott (b. 1883) was an American civil engineer and close friend of Civil War General Robert E. Lee. | ||
||Harald August Bohr (b. 22 April 1887) was a Danish mathematician and soccer player. After receiving his doctorate in 1910, Bohr became an eminent mathematician, founding the field of almost periodic functions. | |||
||1891 – Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (d. 1965) | ||1891 – Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (d. 1965) | ||
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1904: American physicist and academic J. Robert Oppenheimer born. His achievements in physics will include the Born–Oppenheimer approximation for molecular wavefunctions, work on the theory of electrons and positrons, the Oppenheimer–Phillips process in nuclear fusion, and the first prediction of quantum tunneling.
1961: Plutonium used for crimes against mathematical constants, says Cantor Parabola.
1977: Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.