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||1922: George Claude Pimentel born ... inventor of the chemical laser. He also developed the technique of matrix isolation in low-temperature chemistry. In theoretical chemistry, he proposed the three-center four-electron bond which is now accepted as the best simple model of hypervalent molecules. In the late 1960s, Pimentel led the University of California team that designed the infrared spectrometer for the Mars Mariner 6 and 7 missions that analyzed the surface and atmosphere of Mars. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+C.+Pimentel | ||1922: George Claude Pimentel born ... inventor of the chemical laser. He also developed the technique of matrix isolation in low-temperature chemistry. In theoretical chemistry, he proposed the three-center four-electron bond which is now accepted as the best simple model of hypervalent molecules. In the late 1960s, Pimentel led the University of California team that designed the infrared spectrometer for the Mars Mariner 6 and 7 missions that analyzed the surface and atmosphere of Mars. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+C.+Pimentel | ||
File:Margaret Eliza Maltby circa 1908.jpg|link=Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|1933: Physicist and [[APTO]] field engineer [[Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|Margaret Eliza Maltby]] uses the measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions to defeat rogue mathematician [[Anarchimedes]] in single combat. | |||
||1964: Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the American aircraft carrier USS Card while it is docked at Saigon. A North Vietnamese frogman had placed a bomb on the ship. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later. | ||1964: Vietnam War: An explosion sinks the American aircraft carrier USS Card while it is docked at Saigon. A North Vietnamese frogman had placed a bomb on the ship. She is raised and returned to service less than seven months later. | ||
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1488: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci publishes groundbreaking treatise on applications of the Gnomon algorithm principle to powered flight.
1519: Polymath Leonardo da Vinci dies. His areas of interest included painting, sculpting, architecture, invention, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography.
1602: Scholar and polymath Athanasius Kircher born. He will publish some 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.
1759: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop publishes an analysis of Gnomon algorithm techniques which will inspire future generations of scientists to construct the ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") project.
1860: Biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson born.
1933: Physicist and APTO field engineer Margaret Eliza Maltby uses the measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions to defeat rogue mathematician Anarchimedes in single combat.
1986: Chernobyl disaster: The City of Chernobyl is evacuated six days after the disaster.
1986: Public servant and alleged time-traveller The Custodian says he is "sick and tired of mopping up Chernobyl, among other things."
2002: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte dies. During the Second World War, he made a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.
2018: Signed first edition of Green Spiral 9 stolen from the Museum of Modern Art by criminal agents of the Forbidden Ratio.
2020: "Superprophylacticmeasuresuntilvaccinedoses" conceived.