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||1922 – Thea D. Hodge, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2008) | ||1922 – Thea D. Hodge, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2008) | ||
||1923 – Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005) | ||1923 – Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005) Jack St. Clair Kilby (November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005) was an American electrical engineer who took part (along with Robert Noyce) in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics on December 10, 2000 | ||
||1924 – Robert V. Hogg, American statistician and academic (d. 2014) | ||1924 – Robert V. Hogg, American statistician and academic (d. 2014) | ||
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1703: Mathematician and cryptographer John Wallis dies. He served as chief cryptographer for Parliament and, later, the royal court.
1839: Birth of Ivan Goremykin heralds new age of Extreme Moustaches.
1895: While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1974: Green Ring tells Dick Cavett a funny story about Learning to Protect Communications with Adversarial Neural Cryptography.