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[[File:Sputnik 1 Remembers.jpg|175px|thumb|link=Sputnik 1 Remembers|Do you remember when the United States was no longer the most powerful nation on Earth? [[Sputnik 1 remembers]].]] | [[File:Sputnik 1 Remembers.jpg|175px|thumb|link=Sputnik 1 Remembers|Do you remember when the United States was no longer the most powerful nation on Earth? [[Sputnik 1 remembers]].]] | ||
• ... that physicist and inventor '''[[John Vincent Atanasoff]]''' (4 October 1903 – 15 June 1995) invented a pioneering electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College, and that challenges to his legal claim were resolved in 1973 when the ''Honeywell v. Sperry Rand'' lawsuit ruled that Atanasoff was the inventor of what is now called the Atanasoff–Berry computer? | |||
• ... that mathematician and actuary '''[[Harald Cramér (nonfiction)|Harald Cramér]]''' (25 September 1893 – 5 October 1985) became interested in the field of probability before it was accepted branch of mathematics, and in a 1926 paper in 1926 Cramér wrote: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."? | |||
• ... that theoretical physicist '''[[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]]''' (23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) lost much of his will to live after his son Erwin was arrested by and died at the hands of the Gestapo? | • ... that theoretical physicist '''[[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]]''' (23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) lost much of his will to live after his son Erwin was arrested by and died at the hands of the Gestapo? | ||
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• ... that physicist and inventor John Vincent Atanasoff (4 October 1903 – 15 June 1995) invented a pioneering electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College, and that challenges to his legal claim were resolved in 1973 when the Honeywell v. Sperry Rand lawsuit ruled that Atanasoff was the inventor of what is now called the Atanasoff–Berry computer?
• ... that mathematician and actuary Harald Cramér (25 September 1893 – 5 October 1985) became interested in the field of probability before it was accepted branch of mathematics, and in a 1926 paper in 1926 Cramér wrote: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."?
• ... that theoretical physicist Max Planck (23 April 1858 – 4 October 1947) lost much of his will to live after his son Erwin was arrested by and died at the hands of the Gestapo?