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||Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. (d. May 15, 2008) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum."
||Willis Eugene Lamb Jr. (d. May 15, 2008) was an American physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1955 "for his discoveries concerning the fine structure of the hydrogen spectrum."


||Mendel Sachs (d. May 5, 2012) was an American theoretical physicist. His scientific work includes the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.
File:Mendel Sachs.jpg|link=Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|2012: Theoretical physicist [[Mendel Sachs (nonfiction)|Mendel Sachs]] dies. His work included the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.


|File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|2017: ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most exciting illustration of the decade."
|File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|2017: ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "most exciting illustration of the decade."

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  • 1859: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

    1859: Mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet dies. He made important contributions to number theory, analysis, and mechanics. Dirichlet was one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

  • 1867: Pin Man escapes from the Carnevale Tenebre, finds sanctuary in the town of Periphery.

    1867: Pin Man escapes from the Carnevale Tenebre, finds sanctuary in the town of Periphery.

  • 1868: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.

    1868: Inventor, physician, chemist Charles Grafton Page dies. His work had a lasting impact on telegraphy and in the practice and politics of patenting scientific innovation, challenging the rising scientific elitism that maintained 'the scientific do not patent'.

  • 1906: New sideshow at Carnevale Tenebre is "fronting all kinds of math crimes," says mathematician and alleged immortal John Havelock.

    1906: New sideshow at Carnevale Tenebre is "fronting all kinds of math crimes," says mathematician and alleged immortal John Havelock.

  • 1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by Karl Guthe Jansky.

    1933: The New York Times The New York Times publishes a front-page account of a scientific paper on radio astronomy by Karl Guthe Jansky.

  • 1943: Alleged incident of radio-gnomic contact with an extratemporal intelligence as part of the ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") program.

    1943: Alleged incident of radio-gnomic contact with an extratemporal intelligence as part of the ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") program.

  • 2012: Theoretical physicist Mendel Sachs dies. His work included the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.

    2012: Theoretical physicist Mendel Sachs dies. His work included the proposal of a unified field theory that brings together the weak force, strong force, electromagnetism, and gravity.

  • 2018: Creature 3, stolen last year by the Forbidden Ratio gang, is recovered with all of its data intact.

    2018: Creature 3, stolen last year by the Forbidden Ratio gang, is recovered with all of its data intact.

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