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||1804: Pierre François Verhulst born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||1804: Pierre François Verhulst born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||
||1841: Johan August Arfwedson dies ... chemist and academic. | ||1841: Johan August Arfwedson dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1845: Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski born ... physicist and chemist. | ||1845: Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski born ... physicist and chemist. | ||
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||1998: Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers dies ... 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. | ||1998: Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers dies ... 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. | ||
||2004: Ted Taylor dies ... theoretical physicist. He contributed to fission nuclear weapon development, designing the smallest fission bomb of the era ("Davy Crockett"), which weighed only 60 pounds. His later career focused on nuclear energy. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ted+Taylor+(physicist) | |||
||2005: Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. | ||2005: Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. | ||
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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.
1892: Charles-Émile Reynaud performs the first of his Pantomimes Lumineuses shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.
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.
Illustration of Cantor Parabola contains "several terabytes of encrypted data," according to new steganographic analysis.