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File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1935 April 14: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1935 April 14: Mathematician [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] dies. She made landmark contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics.
File:Carbon 14 formation and decay.svg|link=Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|1940 Feb. 27: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover [[Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|carbon-14]]. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
File:Carbon 14 formation and decay.svg|link=Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|1940 Feb. 27: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover [[Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|carbon-14]]. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1943 Jan. 7: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] dies. He made pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|1943 Mar. 9: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] born.  He will conceive and start the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|1943 Mar. 9: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] born.  He will conceive and start the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
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