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||1905: Herbert Fröhlich born ... physicist. Fröhlich proposed a theory of coherent excitations in biological systems known as Fröhlich coherence. A system that attains this state of coherence is known as a Fröhlich condensate. Pic.
||1905: Herbert Fröhlich born ... physicist. Fröhlich proposed a theory of coherent excitations in biological systems known as Fröhlich coherence. A system that attains this state of coherence is known as a Fröhlich condensate. Pic.


||1906: Grace Hopper born ... admiral and computer scientist, designed COBOL. Pic.
File:Commodore Grace M. Hopper, USN.jpg|link=Grace Hopper (nonfiction)|1906: Computer scientist and Admiral [[Grace Hopper (nonfiction)|Grace Hopper]] born. She will pioneer computer programming techniques, inventing one of the first compilers, and popularizing machine-independent programming languages (leading to the development of COBOL).


||1907: Max Deuring born ... mathematician. He is known for his work in arithmetic geometry, in particular on elliptic curves in characteristic p. He worked also in analytic number theory. Pic.
||1907: Max Deuring born ... mathematician. He is known for his work in arithmetic geometry, in particular on elliptic curves in characteristic p. He worked also in analytic number theory. Pic.

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