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||1911: Maurice Allais born ... economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1911: Maurice Allais born ... economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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 | 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 law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved. | ||
||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: 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. |
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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.
1832: Mathematician and social activist Évariste Galois from wounds suffered in a duel. While still in his teens, he was able to determine a necessary and sufficient condition for a polynomial to be solvable by radicals, thereby solving a problem standing for 350 years. His work laid the foundations for Galois theory and group theory, two major branches of abstract algebra, and the subfield of Galois connections.
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 law of conservation of parity, proving that parity is not conserved.
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."