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File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[John Venn]] invents new type of [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata]]. | File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[John Venn]] invents new type of [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata]]. | ||
File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''. | File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''. | ||
File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1988: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum | File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1988: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. | ||
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1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics".
1732: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet translates scrying engine textbook from English into French.
1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn invents new type of cellular automata.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.
1988: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.