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File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1927: German theoretical physicist [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time. | File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1927: German theoretical physicist [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time. | ||
File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|1940: [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]] program accidentally generates new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1941: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] is first produced and isolated by [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg]]. | File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1941: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] is first produced and isolated by [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg]]. | ||
||1942 – World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the coastline near Santa Barbara, California. | ||1942 – World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the coastline near Santa Barbara, California. | ||
||1944 – Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863) | ||1944 – Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863) | ||
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1964: ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] republished using latest [[high-energy literature]] techniques. | |File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1964: ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] republished using latest [[high-energy literature]] techniques. | ||
||1987 – Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud. | ||1987 – Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud. | ||
||2012 – David Sayre, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1924) | ||2012 – David Sayre, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1924) | ||
File:Enter or Exit midsize sketch.jpg|link=|2017: Steganographic analysis of "Enter or Exit" sketch reveals "at least ninety-eight percent" of ''[[Game of Chance (Gnomon Chronicles)|[[Game of Chance]]''. | |||
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1583: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin born.
1742: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi uses Gnomon algorithm functions to translate Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy into Italian.
1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss dies. He had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
1927: German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1940: ENIAC program accidentally generates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1941: Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
