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||1947: Eugene Franklin Mallove born ... scientist, science writer, editor, and publisher of Infinite Energy magazine, and founder of the non-profit organization New Energy Foundation. He was a proponent of cold fusion, and a supporter of its research and related exploratory alternative energy topics, several of which are sometimes characterised as "fringe science". | ||1947: Eugene Franklin Mallove born ... scientist, science writer, editor, and publisher of Infinite Energy magazine, and founder of the non-profit organization New Energy Foundation. He was a proponent of cold fusion, and a supporter of its research and related exploratory alternative energy topics, several of which are sometimes characterised as "fringe science". | ||
File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|1950: [[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] photographed by authorities. | File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|1950: [[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] is photographed by authorities in preparation for his year in prison. | ||
File:J._R._Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. R. Oppenheimer|1953: Singer-physicist [[J. R. Oppenheimer]]'s song "Destroyer of Worlds" is condemned by the [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]] as "pernicious satire which knowingly demeans the national security state." | File:J._R._Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. R. Oppenheimer|1953: Singer-physicist [[J. R. Oppenheimer]]'s song "Destroyer of Worlds" is condemned by the [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]] as "pernicious satire which knowingly demeans the national security state." |
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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 is photographed by authorities in preparation for his year in prison.
1953: Singer-physicist J. R. Oppenheimer's song "Destroyer of Worlds" is condemned by the House Un-American Activities Committee as "pernicious satire which knowingly demeans the national security state."
1954: McCarthyism: Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?"
2018: Signed first edition of Green Ring 2 used in high-energy literature experiment unexpectedly develops artificial intelligence.