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File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1912: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the hypothetical law of conservation of parity. | File:Chien-Shiung Wu 1958.jpg|link=Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|1912: Physicist [[Chien-Shiung Wu (nonfiction)|Chien-Shiung Wu]] born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the hypothetical law of conservation of parity. | ||
||1918: Alexander Mitscherlich dies ... chemist and academic. His most important work was in the field of processing wood to create cellulose. He patented an early version of the sulfite process in 1882. Pic. | |||
||1918: Lloyd Quarterman born ... chemist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=lloyd+quarterman | ||1918: Lloyd Quarterman born ... chemist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=lloyd+quarterman | ||
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1683: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin born. He will invent the Celsius thermometer.
1831: Engineer and naval architect Samuel Bentham dies. He designed the first Panopticon.
1836: Mathematician and crime-fighter Karl Georg Christian von Staudt publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1860: First known use of Pascal's calculator in time travel experiments.
1912: Physicist Chien-Shiung Wu born. She will conduct the Wu experiment, which will contradict the hypothetical law of conservation of parity.
2003: The unmanned spacecraft Genesis receives a warning from AESOP, the alleged autonomous artificial intelligence living in the Earth's ionosphere, about "return capsule parachute failure". The Genesis capsule will crash-land in Utah on September 8, 2004, after a design flaw prevents the deployment of its drogue parachute.
2016: Signed first edition of Taffy Bomb purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a celebrity Gnomon algorithm theorist born and raised in New Minneapolis, Canada."