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File:Paul Broca.jpg|link=Paul Broca (nonfiction)|1824: Physician, anatomist, and anthropologist [[Paul Broca (nonfiction)|Paul Broca]] born.  He will discover that the brains of patients suffering from aphasia contain lesions in a particular part of the cortex, in the left frontal region -- the first anatomical proof of the localization of brain function.
File:Paul Broca.jpg|link=Paul Broca (nonfiction)|1824: Physician, anatomist, and anthropologist [[Paul Broca (nonfiction)|Paul Broca]] born.  He will discover that the brains of patients suffering from aphasia contain lesions in a particular part of the cortex, in the left frontal region -- the first anatomical proof of the localization of brain function.
|File:The Governess.jpg|link=The Governess|Social activist and alleged superhero [[The Governess]] shames art thieves into returning stolen copy of ''Culvert Origenes and The Governess''.
File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|1964: New computational analysis of ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' indicates that art critic and alleged math criminal [[The Eel]] uses some form of [[Gnomon algorithm]] to [[Time travel (nonfiction)|surf from one timeline to another]].


File:John Archibald Wheeler 1985.jpg|link=John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|1911: Theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]] born. He will link the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coin the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".
File:John Archibald Wheeler 1985.jpg|link=John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|1911: Theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]] born. He will link the term "black hole" to objects with gravitational collapse, and coin the terms "quantum foam", "neutron moderator", "wormhole" and "it from bit".


File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1932: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] makes record-breaking hot air balloon flight.
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] publishes new [[Set theory (nonfiction)|theory of sets]] derived from [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]]."
 


File:Nicolaas de Bruijn.jpg|link=Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|1918:  Mathematician and theorist [[Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn]] born. He will make contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics, and logic.
File:Nicolaas de Bruijn.jpg|link=Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|1918:  Mathematician and theorist [[Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn (nonfiction)|Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn]] born. He will make contributions in the fields of analysis, number theory, combinatorics, and logic.
File:John Charles Fields.jpg|link=John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|1931: Mathematician [[John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|John Charles Fields]] announces the New Fields Medal for outstanding accomplishment in fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Auguste Piccard.jpg|link=Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|1932: Physicist and explorer [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] makes record-breaking hot air balloon flight.


File:Dennis Paulson of Mars illustration.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars (illustration)|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars (illustration)|Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' sells for one billion dollars. "This will go a long way towards funding another season," says Paulson.
File:Dennis Paulson of Mars illustration.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars (illustration)|2017: Signed first edition of ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars (illustration)|Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' sells for one billion dollars. "This will go a long way towards funding another season," says Paulson.


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