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||1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912) | ||1988 – Charles Addams, American cartoonist (b. 1912) | ||
| | ||2007: Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion. | ||
|| | ||2008: György Elekes dies ... mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in Combinatorial geometry and Combinatorial set theory. He may be best known for his work in the field that would eventually be called Additive Combinatorics. Particularly notable was his "ingenious" application of the Szemerédi–Trotter theorem to improve the best known lower bound for the sum-product problem.[3] He also proved that any polynomial-time algorithm approximating the volume of convex bodies must have a multiplicative error, and the error grows exponentially on the dimension. Pic: https://adamsheffer.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/incidences-lower-bounds-part-2/ | ||
||Georges Charpak | ||2010: Georges Charpak dies ... physicist from a Jewish family who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1992. Pic. | ||
||2013 | ||2013: Harold Agnew dies ... physicist and engineer. | ||
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1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.
1901: Physicist Enrico Fermi born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1957: Industrialist and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung authorizes the Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
1957: Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. See Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
1957: Investor and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde tell resporters that he "had nothing to do with the Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)."