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File:Curie_and_radium_by_Castaigne.jpg|link=Radium (nonfiction)|1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of [[Radium (nonfiction)|radium]]. | File:Curie_and_radium_by_Castaigne.jpg|link=Radium (nonfiction)|1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of [[Radium (nonfiction)|radium]]. | ||
||Helmut Hasse (d. 26 December 1979) was a German mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of p-adic numbers to local class field theory and diophantine geometry (Hasse principle), and to local zeta functions. | |||
||1991 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union. | ||1991 – The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union. | ||
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1791: Polymath Charles Babbage born. He will pioneer the concept of a digital programmable computer.
1896: Physician and physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond dies. He discovered nerve action potential, and developed experimental electrophysiology.
1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
2006: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal dies. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.
2016: Survey data reveals widespread Scrimshaw binging the day after Christmas.