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||1952: Dmitry Dmitrievich Morduhai-Boltovskoi dies ... mathematician, best known for his work in analysis, differential Galois theory, number theory, hyperbolic geometry, and history of mathematics. Pic. | ||1952: Dmitry Dmitrievich Morduhai-Boltovskoi dies ... mathematician, best known for his work in analysis, differential Galois theory, number theory, hyperbolic geometry, and history of mathematics. Pic. | ||
File:Igor Kurchatov (1940).jpg|link=Igor Kurchatov (nonfiction)|1960: Physicist and academic [[Igor Kurchatov (nonfiction)|Igor Kurchatov]] dies. Kurchatov played a leading role in the Soviet Union's clandestine nuclear weapons program, culminating | File:Igor Kurchatov (1940).jpg|link=Igor Kurchatov (nonfiction)|1960: Physicist and academic [[Igor Kurchatov (nonfiction)|Igor Kurchatov]] dies. Kurchatov played a leading role in the Soviet Union's clandestine nuclear weapons program, culminating in the First Lightning bomb test. | ||
File:Pyramid of the Sun.jpg|link=Pyramid of the Sun (nonfiction)|1967: ''[[Pyramid of the Sun (nonfiction)|Pyramid of the Sun]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Pyramid of the Sun.jpg|link=Pyramid of the Sun (nonfiction)|1967: ''[[Pyramid of the Sun (nonfiction)|Pyramid of the Sun]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
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1877: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
1889: Engineer and theorist Harry Nyquist born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory.
1897: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
1898: Novelist, playwright, and journalist Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.
1949: Mathematician, physicist, and computer crime investigator John von Neumann publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.
1960: Physicist and academic Igor Kurchatov dies. Kurchatov played a leading role in the Soviet Union's clandestine nuclear weapons program, culminating in the First Lightning bomb test.
1967: Pyramid of the Sun voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.
1999: NASA launches the spacecraft Stardust. On January 2, 2004 it will fly by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to earth on 15 January 2006.