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||1946: Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads Pic.
||1946: Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads Pic.
||1959: Wolf Hirth dies ... German pilot and engineer, co-founded Schempp-Hirth. Pic (cool aero).


File:Nicholas Metropolis.png|link=Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|1963: Mathematician and physicist [[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which he derived using the Monte Carlo method. He will soon use these new functions to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Nicholas Metropolis.png|link=Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|1963: Mathematician and physicist [[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which he derived using the Monte Carlo method. He will soon use these new functions to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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||1995: Toru Kumon dies ... mathematician, academic, educator. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=toru+kumon&oq=Toru+Kumon
||1995: Toru Kumon dies ... mathematician, academic, educator. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=toru+kumon&oq=Toru+Kumon


||2003: Ludwig Bölkow dies ... aero engineer ... Messer-262.
||2003: Ludwig Bölkow dies ... aero engineer ... Messer-262. Pic.


||2008: Tracy Hall dies ... chemist and academic ... synth diamond.
||2008: Tracy Hall dies ... chemist and academic ... synth diamond.

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