Template:Selected anniversaries/October 28: Difference between revisions

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1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
1763: Mathematician, physicist, and crime-fighter Jean le Rond d'Alembert uses D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to crimes against mathematical constants.
2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.
Image of Cantor Parabola contains "several terabytes of encrypted data," according to new steganographic analysis.

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 ||Lambros Demetrios Callimahos (d. October 28, 1977) was a US Army cryptologist.
+||Calvin Souther Fuller (d. October 28, 1994) was a physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked for 37 years from 1930 to 1967. Fuller was part of a team in basic research that found answers to physical challenges. He helped develop synthetic rubber during World War II, he was involved in early experiments of zone melting, he is credited with devising the method of transistor production yielding diffusion transistors, he produced some of the first solar cells with high efficiency, and he researched polymers and their applications.
 ||Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers, MBE (born 28 October 1998) was an English engineer with the British Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.