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||1908 – Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
||1908 – Willard Libby, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1980)
||Martin Arthur Pomerantz (b. December 17, 1916) was an American physicist who served as Director of the Bartol Research Institute and who had been a leader in developing Antarctic astronomy.


||1920 – Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist, developed the APL programming language (d. 2004)
||1920 – Kenneth E. Iverson, Canadian computer scientist, developed the APL programming language (d. 2004)

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  • 500 BC: Dionysus gives speech which anticipates the coming of Saturnalia.

    500 BC: Dionysus gives speech which anticipates the coming of Saturnalia.

  • 497 BC: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome.

    497 BC: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome.

  • 1706: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet born. She will translate and comment upon on Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.

    1706: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet born. She will translate and comment upon on Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.

  • 1842: Mathematician and academic Marius Sophus Lie born. He will largely create the theory of continuous symmetry and apply it to the study of geometry and differential equations.

    1842: Mathematician and academic Marius Sophus Lie born. He will largely create the theory of continuous symmetry and apply it to the study of geometry and differential equations.

  • 1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn devotes himself to fighting crimes against mathematical constants.

    1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn devotes himself to fighting crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1900: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright born. She will do pioneering work in what will later be called chaos theory.

    1900: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright born. She will do pioneering work in what will later be called chaos theory.

  • 1907: Lord Kelvin dies. He did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.

    1907: Lord Kelvin dies. He did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.

  • 1938: Physicist Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

    1938: Physicist Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

  • 1977: High-energy literature used during Saturnalia for the first time.

    1977: High-energy literature used during Saturnalia for the first time.

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