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||2008: The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit. | ||2008: The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit. | ||
||2014: Susan B. Horwitz dies ... computer scientist and academic ... noted for her research on programming languages and software engineering, and in particular on program slicing and dataflow-analysis. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Susan+B.+Horwitz | |||
||2014: Susan B. Horwitz dies ... computer scientist, | |||
File:Red Spiral.jpg|link=Red Spiral (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Red Spiral (nonfiction)|Red Spiral]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada. | File:Red Spiral.jpg|link=Red Spiral (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Red Spiral (nonfiction)|Red Spiral]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada. | ||
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1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli write in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.
1914: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time."
1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to Thefixisin.
2017: Red Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.