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||1959: The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. | ||1959: The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. | ||
||1959: Adolf | ||1959: Adolf Windaus dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||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. | ||
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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 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.