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||1986 – National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair. | ||1986 – National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the Iran–Contra affair. | ||
||Bruno Benedetto Rossi ( | ||Hans Julius Zassenhaus (d. 21 November 1991) was a German mathematician, known for work in many parts of abstract algebra, and as a pioneer of computer algebra. | ||
||Bruno Benedetto Rossi (d. 21 November 1993) was an Italian experimental physicist. He made major contributions to particle physics and the study of cosmic rays. | |||
||1996 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926) | ||1996 – Abdus Salam, Pakistani-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926) | ||
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1652: Mathematician, physician, and astronomer Jan Brożek dies. He contributed to a greater knowledge of Nicolaus Copernicus' theories and was his ardent supporter and early prospective biographer.
1675: Isaac Newton publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1676: Astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
1904: Mechanical engineer Clock Head 2 warns theoretical physicist Albert Einstein that the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², will have "earth-shaking consequences."
1905: Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.