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File:Janet Beta Accepts Commission (detail).jpg|link=Janet Beta|1947: Mathematician and military intelligence officer [[Janet Beta]] privately advises Eleanor Roosevelt that [[crimes against mathematical constants]] will only worsen under a military-industrial state of emergency.
File:Janet Beta Accepts Commission (detail).jpg|link=Janet Beta|1947: Mathematician and military intelligence officer [[Janet Beta]] privately advises Eleanor Roosevelt that [[crimes against mathematical constants]] will only worsen under a military-industrial state of emergency.
||1955: Oswald Avery dies ... physician and microbiologist. Avery was one of the first molecular biologists and a pioneer in immunochemistry; he is best known for the experiment (published in 1944 with his co-workers Colin MacLeod and Maclyn McCarty) that isolated DNA as the material of which genes and chromosomes are made. Pic.


||1962: Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
||1962: Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.

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  • 1655: Mathematician, engineer, and APTO field agent Girard Desargues uses projective geometry to defeat rogue mathematician Anarchimedes in single combat.

    1655: Mathematician, engineer, and APTO field agent Girard Desargues uses projective geometry to defeat rogue mathematician Anarchimedes in single combat.

  • 1771: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan dies. His observations and experiments inspired the beginning of what is now known as the study of biological circadian rhythms.

    1771: Geophysicist, astronomer, and biologist Jean-Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan dies. His observations and experiments inspired the beginning of what is now known as the study of biological circadian rhythms.

  • 1772: Astronomer, mathematician, and crime-fighter Nicole-Reine Lepaute publishes new set of star charts using Gnomon algorithm functions which give unprecedented accuracy in the measurement of crimes against astronomical constants.

    1772: Astronomer, mathematician, and crime-fighter Nicole-Reine Lepaute publishes new set of star charts using Gnomon algorithm functions which give unprecedented accuracy in the measurement of crimes against astronomical constants.

  • 1788: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi dies. She was one of the key figures in introducing Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy.

    1788: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi dies. She was one of the key figures in introducing Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy to Italy.

  • 1947: Mathematician and military intelligence officer Janet Beta privately advises Eleanor Roosevelt that crimes against mathematical constants will only worsen under a military-industrial state of emergency.

    1947: Mathematician and military intelligence officer Janet Beta privately advises Eleanor Roosevelt that crimes against mathematical constants will only worsen under a military-industrial state of emergency.

  • 1972: Physicist and academic Maria Goeppert-Mayer dies. She developed a mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, which she shared with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner.

    1972: Physicist and academic Maria Goeppert-Mayer dies. She developed a mathematical model for the structure of nuclear shells, for which she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, which she shared with J. Hans D. Jensen and Eugene Wigner.

  • 1986: The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.

    1986: The Soviet Union launches its Mir spacecraft. Remaining in orbit for 15 years, it is occupied for ten of those years.

  • 1986: New channel features Fantasy Voronoi diagrams based on the probability of the Soviet spacecraft Mir spacecraft contacting AESOP or other artificial intelligence.

    1986: New channel features Fantasy Voronoi diagrams based on the probability of the Soviet spacecraft Mir spacecraft contacting AESOP or other artificial intelligence.

  • 2018: Steganographic analysis of Green Tangle 4 reveals "between four hundred and five hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

    2018: Steganographic analysis of Green Tangle 4 reveals "between four hundred and five hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

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