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||1878 – Dorothea Bate, English palaeontologist and archaeozoologist (d. 1951) | ||1878 – Dorothea Bate, English palaeontologist and archaeozoologist (d. 1951) | ||
||Marvin Pipkin (b. November 18, 1889) was an American chemist. During his time in the United States Army he worked on gas masks. In his civilian life he invented a process for frosting the inside of incandescent lamp bulbs to cut down on the sharp glare and diffuse the light. Pic. | |||
File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1895: While experimenting with electricity, [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] discovers the X-ray. | File:Wilhelm Röntgen.jpg|link=Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|1895: While experimenting with electricity, [[Wilhelm Röntgen (nonfiction)|Wilhelm Röntgen]] discovers the X-ray. | ||
|File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1900: "[[Crimes against mathematical constants]] are on the rise," warns Lord Kelvin. | |File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1900: "[[Crimes against mathematical constants]] are on the rise," warns Lord Kelvin. | ||
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File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|1969: Astronomer [[Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] dies. He performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe. | File:Vesto Slipher.gif|link=Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|1969: Astronomer [[Vesto Slipher (nonfiction)|Vesto Melvin Slipher]] dies. He performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe. | ||
File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring|1974: [[Green Ring]] tells [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] a funny story about ''[[Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography (nonfiction)|Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography]]''. | |||
||1986 – Aaron Swartz, American computer programmer and activist (d. 2013) | ||1986 – Aaron Swartz, American computer programmer and activist (d. 2013) | ||
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1703: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1839: Birth of Ivan Goremykin heralds new age of Extreme Moustaches.
1848: Mathematician, logician, and philosopher Gottlob Frege born. Though will be largely ignored during his lifetime, his work will influence later generations of logicians and philosophers.
1895: While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1969: Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher dies. He performed the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.
1974: Green Ring tells Dick Cavett a funny story about Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography.