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||1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) | ||1985 – Paul Flory, American chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1910) | ||
||Geoffrey William Arnold Dummer, MBE (1945), C.Eng., IEE Premium Award, FIEEE, MIEE, USA Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm (25 February 1909 – 9 September 2002) was an English electronics engineer and consultant who is credited as being the first person to conceptualise and build a prototype of the integrated circuit, commonly called the microchip, in the late-1940s and early 1950s. | |||
||2003 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1908) | ||2003 – Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist and academic (b. 1908) | ||
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1737: Physician and physicist Luigi Galvani born. In 1780, he will discover that the muscles of dead frogs' legs twitch when struck by an electrical spark.
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new 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."
1947: First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
1975: Viking program: Viking 2 launched. Following a 333-day cruise to Mars, the Viking orbiter will begin returning global images of Mars.
2017: The Custodian tells a funny story about why you can't go in there.