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File:Curt Meyer.jpg|link=Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|Curt Meyer]] publishes an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem which uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and erase the [[Forbidden Ratio]].
File:Curt Meyer.jpg|link=Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|1978: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|Curt Meyer]] publishes an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem which uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to detect and erase the [[Forbidden Ratio]].


||1996 – Piet Hein, Danish poet and mathematician (b. 1905) - Danish mathematician, inventor, designer, author, and poet, often writing under the Old Norse pseudonym "Kumbel" meaning "tombstone".
File:Piet Hein and H.C. Andersen.jpg|link=Piet Hein (nonfiction)|1996: Mathematician, author, and poet [[Piet Hein (nonfiction)|Piet Hein]] dies. He proposeD the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses subsequently became the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture.


||Horace Richard Crane (d. April 19, 2007) was an American physicist, the inventor of the Race Track Synchrotron, a recipient of President Ronald Reagan's National Medal of Science "for the first measurement of the magnetic moment and spin of free electrons and positrons". He was also noted for proving the existence of neutrinos.
||Horace Richard Crane (d. April 19, 2007) was an American physicist, the inventor of the Race Track Synchrotron, a recipient of President Ronald Reagan's National Medal of Science "for the first measurement of the magnetic moment and spin of free electrons and positrons". He was also noted for proving the existence of neutrinos.
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||2014 – NASA's Kepler space observatory confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
||2014 – NASA's Kepler space observatory confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
File:Angry_Feller.jpg|link=Angry Feller (nonfiction)|2018: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Angry Feller (nonfiction)|Angry Feller]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least a megabyte of plaintext data, mostly unsent letters to the editor in the 'You kids get off my lawn' category."


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