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||1986 – James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) | ||1986 – James Rainwater, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1917) | ||
||Erich Kähler (d. 31 May 2000) was a German mathematician with wide-ranging interests in geometry and mathematical physics, who laid important mathematical groundwork for algebraic geometry and for string theory. Pic. | |||
||2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was "Deep Throat". | ||2005 – Vanity Fair reveals that Mark Felt was "Deep Throat". | ||
Revision as of 16:35, 1 February 2018
1831: Engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham dies. He designed the first Panopticon.
1836: Mathematician and crime-fighter Karl Georg Christian von Staudt publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.