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• ... that mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer '''[[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]]''' (26 December 1791 | • ... that theoretical physicist '''[[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]]''' (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons, and later, early models of the hydrogen bomb; that Fuchs supplied information Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War; that he was tried and convicted in 1950; and that Fuchs "felt that if the Soviet Union had the wherewithal to make its own bomb, this would prevent its misuse by one nation alone," and that he "was hardly a traitor in the usual sense of the word ... he was deeply opposed to war and acted on his conscience."? | ||
• ... that mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer '''[[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]]''' (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was a pioneer of programmable computing? | |||
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• ... that theoretical physicist Klaus Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was responsible for many significant theoretical calculations relating to the first nuclear weapons, and later, early models of the hydrogen bomb; that Fuchs supplied information Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War; that he was tried and convicted in 1950; and that Fuchs "felt that if the Soviet Union had the wherewithal to make its own bomb, this would prevent its misuse by one nation alone," and that he "was hardly a traitor in the usual sense of the word ... he was deeply opposed to war and acted on his conscience."?
• ... that mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer Charles Babbage (26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was a pioneer of programmable computing?