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||Edwin Thomas Layton (d. April 12, 1984) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, who is most noted for his work as an intelligence officer during and before World War II. | ||Edwin Thomas Layton (d. April 12, 1984) was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, who is most noted for his work as an intelligence officer during and before World War II. | ||
File:John Archibald Wheeler 1985.jpg|link=John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|1999: Theoretical physicist [[John Archibald Wheeler (nonfiction)|John Archibald Wheeler]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use quantum foam theory to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||Hans Neurath (d. April 2002) was a biochemist, a leader in protein chemistry | ||Hans Neurath (d. April 2002) was a biochemist, a leader in protein chemistry | ||
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1817: Astronomer Charles Messier dies. He published an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1852: Mathematician and academic Ferdinand von Lindemann born. He will prove (1882) that π (pi) is a transcendental number.
1947: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to manufacture high-grade clandestiphrine.
1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight (Vostok 1).
1999: Theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use quantum foam theory to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2017: Math photographer Cantor Parabola wins Pulitzer Prize for series of retro-temporal photographs of Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.