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||1924 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011) | ||1924 – Willard Boyle, Canadian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2011) | ||
||Alan Baker (b. 19 August 1939) was an English mathematician, known for his work on effective methods in number theory, in particular those arising from transcendental number theory. Pic. | |||
||1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber. | ||1940 – First flight of the B-25 Mitchell medium bomber. | ||
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1662: Mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher Blaise Pascal dies. He did pioneering work on calculating machines.
1822: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre dies. He was one of the first astronomers to derive astronomical equations from analytical formulas.
1823: Red Eyes Fighting depicts martial artist and crime-fighter Red Eyes breaking up a math lab.
1906: Inventor Philo Farnsworth born. He will make many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television.
1993: Actor-cryptographer Niles Cartouchian confirms that he personally designed the computational security protocols featured in the action-adventure film Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.
1994: Chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator Linus Pauling dies.