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||1962 – The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage. | ||1962 – The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage. | ||
||1975 – Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars. | ||1975 – Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars. | ||
||1977 – Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft. | ||1977 – Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft. | ||
||Wolfgang Gröbner (d. 20 August 1980) was an Austrian mathematician. His name is best known for the Gröbner basis, used for computations in algebraic geometry. However, the theory of Gröbner bases for polynomial rings was developed by his student Bruno Buchberger in 1965, who named them for Gröbner. | |||
||2001 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (b. 1915) | ||2001 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author (b. 1915) | ||
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Revision as of 20:32, 28 November 2017
1672: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt dies in a riot. The rioters will partially eat his body.
1923: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1961: Physicist and academic Percy Williams Bridgman dies. He won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures.
1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.