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||1962 – Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion, French astronomer (b. 1877) | ||1962 – Gabrielle Renaudot Flammarion, French astronomer (b. 1877) | ||
||Lt. Col. Jan Kowalewski (23 October 1892 – 31 October 1965) was a Polish cryptologist, intelligence officer, engineer, journalist, military commander, and creator and first head of the Polish Cipher Bureau. He recruited a large staff of cryptologists who broke Soviet military codes and ciphers during the Polish-Soviet War, enabling Poland to weather the war and achieve victory in the 1920 Battle of Warsaw. Pic. | |||
||Elizebeth Smith Friedman (d. October 31, 1980) was an expert cryptanalyst and author, and pioneer in U.S. cryptography. She has been called "America's first female cryptanalyst". | ||Elizebeth Smith Friedman (d. October 31, 1980) was an expert cryptanalyst and author, and pioneer in U.S. cryptography. She has been called "America's first female cryptanalyst". | ||
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1815: Mathematician and academic Karl Weierstrass born. He will be cited as the "father of modern analysis".
1847: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris born. He will be a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
2017: Steganographic analysis of The Eel Escapes Hydrolab reveals fifteen terabytes of encrypted data.
