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||Chen Jingrun (March 19, 1996) was a Chinese mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory.
||Chen Jingrun (March 19, 1996) was a Chinese mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory.
||Nancy Farley "Nan" Wood (d. 19 March 2003) was a member of the Manhattan Project and a business owner who designed, developed and manufactured her own line of ionizing radiation detectors. She was a lifelong feminist and a founding member of Chicago NOW. No pic.


||2008 – GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
||2008 – GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.

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  • 1816: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei dies. He acted as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

    1816: Physician and activist Filippo Mazzei dies. He acted as an agent to purchase arms for Virginia during the American Revolutionary War.

  • 1958: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Industrialist and alleged supervillain Baron Zersetzung declares the technique "an astonishing breakthrough, and a milestone in military-industrial contract fulfillment."

    1958: Army research laboratories convert modern plowshares into ancient swords. Industrialist and alleged supervillain Baron Zersetzung declares the technique "an astonishing breakthrough, and a milestone in military-industrial contract fulfillment."

  • 1978: Mathematician Gaston Maurice Julia dies. He devised the formula for the Julia set.

    1978: Mathematician Gaston Maurice Julia dies. He devised the formula for the Julia set.

  • 1979: Accidental release of Carnivorous dirigibles blamed for outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1979: Accidental release of Carnivorous dirigibles blamed for outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1987: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie dies. He postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter was first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.

    1987: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie dies. He postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter was first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.

  • 2017: Green Spiral 9 declared Picture of the Day.

    2017: Green Spiral 9 declared Picture of the Day.

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