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||1888 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (b. 1845) | ||1888 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist and chemist (b. 1845) | ||
||Jerzy Neyman (b. April 16, 1894), born Jerzy Spława-Neyman, was a Polish mathematician and statistician | |||
||1895 – Ove Arup, English-Danish engineer and businessman, founded Arup (d. 1988) Sydney Opera House | ||1895 – Ove Arup, English-Danish engineer and businessman, founded Arup (d. 1988) Sydney Opera House | ||
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1958: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin dies. She made contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
1958: Time-travelling combat physician Asclepius Myrmidon prevents Baron Zersetzung from detonating the Tybee Bomb.
1958: The United States military announces that the search for hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was unsuccessful.
1962: Brainiac Explains lecture series blamed for outbreak of crimes against mathematical constants.
2008: Mathematician Edward Lorenz dies. He introduced the strange attractor notion, and coined the term butterfly effect.
2008: Lorenz system diagram says it "owes everything to Papa Lorenz."
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola attends Minicon 52, taking a series of photographs with temporal superimpositions from Minicons 51 and 53.