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File:Nicholas Metropolis.png|link=Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and physicist [[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]] born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
File:Nicholas Metropolis.png|link=Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and physicist [[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]] born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
||Boyce Dawkins McDaniel (d. June 11, 1917) was an American nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later directed the Cornell University Laboratory of Nuclear Studies (LNS). McDaniel was skilled in constructing "atom smashing" devices to study the fundamental structure of matter and helped to build the most powerful particle accelerators of his time. Together with his graduate student, he invented the pair spectrometer. Pic.


||1935 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
||1935 – Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.

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  • 1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli write in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").

    1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli write in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").

  • 1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.

    1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.

  • 1914: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time."

    1914: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time."

  • 1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.

    1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.

  • 1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to Thefixisin.

    1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to Thefixisin.

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