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||1901 – The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.
||1901 – The first Nobel Prizes are awarded.


||Walter Henry Zinn (b. December 10, 1906) was a nuclear physicist who was the first director of the Argonne National Laboratory from 1946 to 1956. He worked at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory during World War II, and supervised the construction of Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first nuclear reactor, which went critical on December 2, 1942, at the University of Chicago. At Argonne he designed and built several new reactors, including Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the first nuclear reactor to produce electric power, which went live on December 20, 1951. Pic.
||1906: Walter Henry Zinn born ... nuclear physicist who was the first director of the Argonne National Laboratory from 1946 to 1956. He worked at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory during World War II, and supervised the construction of Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first nuclear reactor, which went critical on December 2, 1942, at the University of Chicago. At Argonne he designed and built several new reactors, including Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the first nuclear reactor to produce electric power, which went live on December 20, 1951. Pic.


||1907 – The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.
||1907: The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.


||1934 – Howard Martin Temin, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1994)
||1920: Mathematician Alfred William Goldie born. He will work in ring theory where he introduced the notion of the uniform dimension of a module, and the reduced rank of a module. He is well known for Goldie's theorem, which characterizes right Goldie rings. Indeed, his Independent obituary described him as the "Lord of the Rings". Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Goldie_Alfred.html
 
||1934: Howard Martin Temin born ... geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1959: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], demonstrates new controller units.
File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1959: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], demonstrates new controller units.


||Oded Schramm (b. December 10, 1961) was an Israeli-American mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution (SLE) and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory. Pic.
||1961: Oded Schramm born ... mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution (SLE) and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory. Pic.


||Gnome was detonated on 10 December 1961, with a yield of 3.1 kilotons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gnome
||1961: Nuclear weapon test Gnome is detonated, with a yield of 3.1 kilotons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gnome


File:Gasbuggy Nuclear device.jpg|link=Project Gasbuggy (nonfiction)|1967: [[Project Gasbuggy (nonfiction)|Project Gasbuggy]] underground nuclear test detonation in rural northern New Mexico. Its purpose was to determine if nuclear explosions could be useful in fracturing rock formations for natural gas extraction.
File:Gasbuggy Nuclear device.jpg|link=Project Gasbuggy (nonfiction)|1967: [[Project Gasbuggy (nonfiction)|Project Gasbuggy]] underground nuclear test detonation in rural northern New Mexico. Its purpose was to determine if nuclear explosions could be useful in fracturing rock formations for natural gas extraction.


||1968 – Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.
||1968: Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo.


||1973 – Wolf V. Vishniac, German-American microbiologist and academic (b. 1922)
||1973 – Wolf V. Vishniac, German-American microbiologist and academic (b. 1922)

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  • 1198: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.

    1198: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.

  • 1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler born.

    1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler born.

  • 1684: Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.

    1684: Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.

  • 1804: Mathematician and academic Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi born. He will make fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.

    1804: Mathematician and academic Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi born. He will make fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.

  • 1815: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace born. She will do pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.

    1815: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace born. She will do pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.

  • 1831: Physicist and academic Thomas Johann Seebeck dies. He discovered the thermoelectric effect.

    1831: Physicist and academic Thomas Johann Seebeck dies. He discovered the thermoelectric effect.

  • 1959: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, demonstrates new controller units.

    1959: Chrome Plover, the famous musical electroplating ensemble, demonstrates new controller units.

  • 1967: Project Gasbuggy underground nuclear test detonation in rural northern New Mexico. Its purpose was to determine if nuclear explosions could be useful in fracturing rock formations for natural gas extraction.

    1967: Project Gasbuggy underground nuclear test detonation in rural northern New Mexico. Its purpose was to determine if nuclear explosions could be useful in fracturing rock formations for natural gas extraction.

  • 1989: Animated Lorenz system diagram celebrates the life and work of Ada Lovelace.

    1989: Animated Lorenz system diagram celebrates the life and work of Ada Lovelace.

  • 2014: The Eel receives news from informants.

    2014: The Eel receives news from informants.

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