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||1945 – Vincent Hugo Bendix, American engineer and businessman, founded Bendix Corporation (b. 1881) | ||1945 – Vincent Hugo Bendix, American engineer and businessman, founded Bendix Corporation (b. 1881) | ||
|File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)| | ||1954: Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons. | ||
|File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1955: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho used to generate [[diagramaceous soil]], which will later be used to compensate victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1967 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890) | ||1967 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890) |
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1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen born. He will win the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
1923: Chemist and physicist James Dewar dies. He invented the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction with extensive research into the liquefaction of gases.
1925: Mathematician Carl Gottfried Neumann dies. He will studied physics with his father, and later worked as a mathematician, dealing almost exclusively with problems arising from physics.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
2011: Artist George Tooker dies. His paintings depicted his subjects naturally, as in a photograph, but the images used flat tones, an ambiguous perspective, and alarming juxtapositions to suggest an imagined or dreamed reality.
2002: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.