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||1908: Chaim Leib Pekeris born ... physicist and mathematician. He made notable contributions to geophysics and the spectral theory of many-electron atoms, in particular the Helium atom. He was also one of the designers of the first computer in Israel, WEIZAC. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Prof-Chaim-Leib-Pekeris/6000000026350827675 | ||1908: Chaim Leib Pekeris born ... physicist and mathematician. He made notable contributions to geophysics and the spectral theory of many-electron atoms, in particular the Helium atom. He was also one of the designers of the first computer in Israel, WEIZAC. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Prof-Chaim-Leib-Pekeris/6000000026350827675 | ||
||1914: Hilda Terry born ... cartoonist. | ||1914: Hilda Terry born ... cartoonist, created the comic strip ''Teena'', which ran in newspapers from 1944 to 1964. Pic. | ||
||1915: Thomas Huckle Weller born ... biologist and virologist, Nobel Prize | ||1915: Thomas Huckle Weller born ... biologist and virologist ... He, John Franklin Enders and Frederick Chapman Robbins were awarded a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1954 for showing how to cultivate poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube, using a combination of human embryonic skin and muscle tissue. Pic. | ||
||1916: Herbert Simon born ... economist and political scientist whose primary interest was decision-making within organizations and is best known for the theories of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing". He was among the pioneers of several modern-day scientific domains such as artificial intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, organization theory, and complex systems. He was among the earliest to analyze the architecture of complexity and to propose a preferential attachment mechanism to explain power law distributions. Pic. | ||1916: Herbert Simon born ... economist and political scientist whose primary interest was decision-making within organizations and is best known for the theories of "bounded rationality" and "satisficing". He was among the pioneers of several modern-day scientific domains such as artificial intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, organization theory, and complex systems. He was among the earliest to analyze the architecture of complexity and to propose a preferential attachment mechanism to explain power law distributions. Pic. | ||
||1917: John Fenn born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1917: John Fenn born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1917: Kristian Birkeland dies ... physicist and academic. | ||1917: Kristian Birkeland dies ... physicist and academic. Pic (cool). | ||
||https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Duluth_lynchings | ||https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920_Duluth_lynchings | ||
||1927: Ross Andru born ... American illustrator. | ||1927: Ross Andru born ... American illustrator ... known for his work on The Amazing Spider-Man, Wonder Woman, The Flash, and The Metal Men, and for having co-created the Punisher. His most frequent collaborator was inker Mike Esposito, with whom he worked on projects over a span of four decades. Pic. | ||
||1927: Gart Westerhout born ... astronomer and academic ... Westerhout specialized in studies of radio sources and the Milky Way Galaxy based on observations of radio continuum emissions and 21-cm spectral line radiation that originates in interstellar hydrogen. Pic. | ||1927: Gart Westerhout born ... astronomer and academic ... Westerhout specialized in studies of radio sources and the Milky Way Galaxy based on observations of radio continuum emissions and 21-cm spectral line radiation that originates in interstellar hydrogen. Pic. | ||
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||1971: Wendell Meredith Stanley dies ...biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Pic. | ||1971: Wendell Meredith Stanley dies ...biochemist, virologist and Nobel laureate. Pic. | ||
||1985: Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife. | ||1985: Rembrandt's painting ''Danaë'' is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife. | ||
File:John Atanasov.gif|link=John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic [[John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|John Vincent Atanasoff]] dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer. | File:John Atanasov.gif|link=John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic [[John Vincent Atanasoff (nonfiction)|John Vincent Atanasoff]] dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer. | ||
||2001: Alessandro Faedo ... | ||2001: Mathematician and politician Alessandro Faedo born ... known for his work in numerical analysis, leading to the Faedo–Galerkin method: he was one of the pupils of Leonida Tonelli and, after his death, he succeeded him on the chair of mathematical analysis at the University of Pisa, becoming dean of the faculty of sciences and then rector and exerting a strong positive influence on the development of the university. Pic. | ||
||2012: Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls. | ||2012: Nik Wallenda becomes the first person to successfully tightrope walk directly over Niagara Falls. (Alive December 2019.) Pic. | ||
||2013: Kenneth G. Wilson dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||2013: Kenneth G. Wilson dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
File:Traveller.jpg|link=Traveller (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Traveller (nonfiction)|Traveller]]'' reveals "several hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions. | File:Traveller.jpg|link=Traveller (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Traveller (nonfiction)|Traveller]]'' reveals "several hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions. | ||
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Revision as of 07:42, 10 December 2019
763 BC: Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.
1485 Feb. 1: lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist Johannes Trithemius uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to generate improved solar eclipse forecasts. During the Second World War, this data will be used by German cryptographers to defeat enemy traffic analysis.
1906: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman born. During the Second World War, he will develop traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.
1939: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel helps break German military codes using surf-powered gnomon algorithm techniques.
1995: Physicist, inventor, and academic John Vincent Atanasoff dies. He invented the Atanasoff–Berry computer, the first electronic digital computer.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Traveller reveals "several hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.