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File:Harry Daghlian.gif|link=Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|1921 May 4: Physicist [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]] born.  He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
File:Harry Daghlian.gif|link=Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|1921 May 4: Physicist [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]] born.  He will be fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
File:Tom Kilburn.jpg|link=Tom Kilburn (nonfiction)|1921 Aug. 11: Mathematician and computer scientist [[Tom Kilburn (nonfiction)|Tom Kilburn]] born. Over the course of a productive 30-year career, he will be involved in the development of five computers of great historical significance.
File:Niels Bohr.jpg|link=Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|1921 Oct. 18: [[Niels Bohr (nonfiction)|Niels Bohr]] introduced his quantum model of the atom.
File:Henrietta Swan Leavitt.jpg|link=Henrietta Swan Leavitt (nonfiction)|1921 Dec. 12: Astronomer [[Henrietta Swan Leavitt (nonfiction)|Henrietta Swan Leavitt]] dies. She discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
File:Henrietta Swan Leavitt.jpg|link=Henrietta Swan Leavitt (nonfiction)|1921 Dec. 12: Astronomer [[Henrietta Swan Leavitt (nonfiction)|Henrietta Swan Leavitt]] dies. She discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
File:Tom Kilburn.jpg|link=Tom Kilburn (nonfiction)|1921 Aug. 11: Mathematician and computer scientist [[Tom Kilburn (nonfiction)|Tom Kilburn]] born. Over the course of a productive 30-year career, he will be involved in the development of five computers of great historical significance.


File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|1922 Feb. 16: Mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] born. He will provide the original proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.
File:Hing Tong.jpg|link=Hing Tong (nonfiction)|1922 Feb. 16: Mathematician [[Hing Tong (nonfiction)|Hing Tong]] born. He will provide the original proof of the Katetov–Tong insertion theorem.

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