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File:Madeleine L'Engle.jpg|link=Madeleine L'Engle (nonfiction)|2007: Writer [[Madeleine L'Engle (nonfiction)|Madeleine L'Engle]] dies. She wrote the Newbery Medal-winning ''A Wrinkle in Time'' and its sequels. | File:Madeleine L'Engle.jpg|link=Madeleine L'Engle (nonfiction)|2007: Writer [[Madeleine L'Engle (nonfiction)|Madeleine L'Engle]] dies. She wrote the Newbery Medal-winning ''A Wrinkle in Time'' and its sequels. | ||
File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC| | File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|2008: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Janet Beta at ENIAC]]'' reveals previously unknown [[cryptographic numen]]. | ||
||Rita Harriet Harradence (d. 6 November 2012) was an Australian biochemist who pioneered the synthesis of penicillamine and steroids, and the stereochemistry of molecules involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Pic. | |||
||2017 – Lotfi Zadeh, Iranian-American mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic, dies. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/science/lotfi-zadeh-father-of-mathematical-fuzzy-logic-dies-at-96.html | ||2017 – Lotfi Zadeh, Iranian-American mathematician and computer scientist and founder of fuzzy logic, dies. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/science/lotfi-zadeh-father-of-mathematical-fuzzy-logic-dies-at-96.html |
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1635: Mathematician and astronomer Adriaan Metius dies. He manufactured precision astronomical instruments, and published treatises on the astrolabe and on surveying.
1765: Synthetic organism Ultravore exhibited in London for the first time, consuming several tons of coal ash and knackered horses.
1732: Physicist and academic Johan Carl Wilcke born. He will invent the electrophorus, and calculate the latent heat of ice.
1766: Chemist, meteorologist, and physicist John Dalton born. He will propose the modern atomic theory, and do research in color blindness.
2006: Mathematician and computer scientist John Backus defines formal language syntax for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
2007: Writer Madeleine L'Engle dies. She wrote the Newbery Medal-winning A Wrinkle in Time and its sequels.
2008: Steganographic analysis of Janet Beta at ENIAC reveals previously unknown cryptographic numen.
2017: Previously unknown type of cryptographic numen revealed by steganographic analysis of Janet Beta at ENIAC.