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||1969: Harold Davenport dies ... mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory. Pic. | ||1969: Harold Davenport dies ... mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory. Pic. | ||
||1987: Wilhelm Tolmé Runge dies ... electrical engineer and physicist who had a major involvement in developing radar systems in Germany. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Wilhelm-Runge | |||
||1989: George Wells Beadle dies ... scientist in the field of genetics, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate who with Edward Tatum discovered the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells in 1958. Pic. | ||1989: George Wells Beadle dies ... scientist in the field of genetics, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate who with Edward Tatum discovered the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells in 1958. Pic. | ||
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1861: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem born. He will write: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1917: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor publishes new theory of sets derived from Gnomon algorithm functions. Colleagues hail it as "a magisterial contribution to science and art of detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants."
1950: Dalton Trumbo photographed by authorities.
2018: Signed first edition of Green Ring Coalescence used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.