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|File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1891: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] uses census data to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1891: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] uses census data to predict and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1895: William Giauque born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1895: William Giauque born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... for his studies in the properties of matter at temperatures close to absolute zero. Pic. | ||
||1898: Henry DeWolf Smyth born ... physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat. He played a number of key roles in the early development of nuclear energy, as a participant in the Manhattan Project, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). | ||1898: Henry DeWolf Smyth born ... physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat. He played a number of key roles in the early development of nuclear energy, as a participant in the Manhattan Project, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), and U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). | ||
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1825: Mathematician and physicist Johann Jakob Balmer born. He will develop an empirical formula for the visible spectral lines of the hydrogen atom.
1958: Mathematician, codebreaker, and crime analyst W. T. Tutte makes a fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Forbidden Ratio, a criminal mathematical function.
1959: Industrialist, public motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung says he "is confident that the upcoming U-2 spyplane incident is an outstanding investment opportunity."
1960: Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
1961: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon warns that U-2 spyplane incident may have released a new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1970: Electronics researcher Ralph Hartley dies. He invented the Hartley oscillator and the Hartley transform, and contributed to the foundations of information theory.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Creature unexpectedly reveals "at least fifty terabytes" of encrypted data relating, "apparently a record of top-secret Clandestiphrine experiments directed against the U-2 spyplane incident."