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||1971: The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France. | ||1971: The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France. | ||
||1984: Max Deuring born ... mathematician. He is known for his work in arithmetic geometry, in particular on elliptic curves in characteristic p. He worked also in analytic number theory. | ||1984: Max Deuring born ... mathematician. He is known for his work in arithmetic geometry, in particular on elliptic curves in characteristic p. He worked also in analytic number theory. Pic. | ||
||1993: W. Edwards Deming dies ... statistician, author, and academic ... Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical physics, he helped develop the sampling techniques still used by the U.S. Department of the Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. | ||1993: W. Edwards Deming dies ... statistician, author, and academic ... Educated initially as an electrical engineer and later specializing in mathematical physics, he helped develop the sampling techniques still used by the U.S. Department of the Census and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Pic. | ||
||1994: Dr. Cyril | ||1994: Dr. Cyril Ponnamperuma dies ... scientist in the fields of chemical evolution and the origin of life. Pic. | ||
||1995: Paris Christos Kanellakis dies ... computer scientist. His scientific contributions lie in the fields of database theory—comprising work on deductive databases, object-oriented databases, and constraint databases—as well as in fault-tolerant distributed computation and in type theory. Pic. | ||1995: Paris Christos Kanellakis dies ... computer scientist. His scientific contributions lie in the fields of database theory—comprising work on deductive databases, object-oriented databases, and constraint databases—as well as in fault-tolerant distributed computation and in type theory. Pic. | ||
||1996: Carl Sagan dies ... astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist. | ||1996: Carl Sagan dies ... astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist. Pic. | ||
||1998: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin dies ... physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1998: Alan Lloyd Hodgkin dies ... physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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||2007: Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Suzanne Bloch was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art and recovered about three weeks later. | ||2007: Pablo Picasso's Portrait of Suzanne Bloch was stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art and recovered about three weeks later. | ||
||2008: Friedrich | ||2008: Friedrich Beck dies ... physicist. His research interests were focused on superconductivity, nuclear and elementary particle physics, relativistic quantum field theory, and late in his life, biophysics and theory of consciousness. Pic. | ||
||2010: Frederic Gordon Foster dies ... computational engineer, statistician, professor, and college dean who is widely known for devising, in 1965, a nine-digit code upon which the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is based. No pic, none. | ||2010: Frederic Gordon Foster dies ... computational engineer, statistician, professor, and college dean who is widely known for devising, in 1965, a nine-digit code upon which the International Standard Book Number (ISBN) is based. No pic, none. | ||
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1494: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé born. He will be imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing judicial astrology.
1757: Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punched-card technology to compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1901: Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff born. He will design design and construct high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.
1922: Hilbert curve prevents crime against mathematical constants.
1951: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
1962: Mathematician Emil Artin dies. He worked on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.
2017: Signed first edition of Spiral Rings 2 sells for an undisclosed amount to "a prominent mathematician living in New Minneapolis, Canada" at charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.