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||1922 – Cécile DeWitt-Morette, French mathematician and physicist (d. 2017) | ||1922 – Cécile DeWitt-Morette, French mathematician and physicist (d. 2017) | ||
|Newton Ennis Morton (b. 21 December 1929) was an American population geneticist and one of the founders of the field of genetic epidemiology. He work with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Japan during 1952–1953 will inspire him to pursue a career in human genetics. Pic. | ||Newton Ennis Morton (b. 21 December 1929) was an American population geneticist and one of the founders of the field of genetic epidemiology. He work with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Japan during 1952–1953 will inspire him to pursue a career in human genetics. Pic. | ||
||1933 – Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879) | ||1933 – Knud Rasmussen, Greenlandic anthropologist and explorer (b. 1879) | ||
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1878: Mathematician and philosopher Jan Łukasiewicz born. He will think innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle.
1913: Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
1974: Fantasy Voronoi diagram upstages Fantasy Football.
1976: Chronography of 354 wins Pulitzer Prize.
1984: Mandelbrot set develops artificial intelligence, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions.