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||1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal. | ||1924 – The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal. | ||
||Marshall Nicholas Rosenbluth (b. 5 February 1927) was an American plasma physicist and member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 1997 he was awarded the National Medal of Science for discoveries in controlled thermonuclear fusion, contributions to plasma physics, and work in computational statistical mechanics. Pic. | |||
||1937 – Wang Xuan, Chinese computer scientist and academic (d. 2006) | ||1937 – Wang Xuan, Chinese computer scientist and academic (d. 2006) | ||
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1724: Thief Jack Sheppard first arrested. He will be arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escape four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1789: Chemist, philosopher, educator, and crime-fighter Joseph Priestley gives landmark sermon on the use of Gnomon algorithm functions in the detection and prevention of crimes against chemistry.
1834: Inventor and crime-fighter Charles Grafton Page correlates transdimensional corporations with crimes against mathematical constants.
1843: Rudolf Clausius publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on thermodynamics.
1958: Transdimensional corporation spontaneously generates four-dimensional bacteriophage, perhaps as a result of the Tybee Bomb event.
1988: Mathematician Dorothy Lewis Bernstein dies. She was the first woman to be elected president of the Mathematics Association of America.
