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||1926: Mathematician and academic Robert Phelps born.  Phelps will be make contributions to analysis, particularly to functional analysis and measure theory. Pic.
||1926: Mathematician and academic Robert Phelps born.  Phelps will be make contributions to analysis, particularly to functional analysis and measure theory. Pic.
File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1929: Art critic and alleged supervillain [[The Eel]] attends birthday party for [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]]. They will later collaborate on ideas which will lead The Eel to construct a portable wormhole generator.


||1931: Burton Richter born ... physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by Samuel Ting for which they won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976. This discovery was part of the so-called November Revolution of particle physics.  Pic.
||1931: Burton Richter born ... physicist. He led the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) team which co-discovered the J/ψ meson in 1974, alongside the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) team led by Samuel Ting for which they won Nobel Prize for Physics in 1976. This discovery was part of the so-called November Revolution of particle physics.  Pic.
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||1935: Berry Louis Cannon born ... aquanaut who served on the SEALAB II and III projects of the U.S. Navy. Cannon died of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair SEALAB III. It was later found that his diving rig's baralyme canister, which should have absorbed the carbon dioxide Cannon exhaled, was empty. Pic.
||1935: Berry Louis Cannon born ... aquanaut who served on the SEALAB II and III projects of the U.S. Navy. Cannon died of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair SEALAB III. It was later found that his diving rig's baralyme canister, which should have absorbed the carbon dioxide Cannon exhaled, was empty. Pic.
File:Jean Bartik.jpg|link=Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|1948: Computer programmer and crime-fighter [[Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|Jean Bartik]] uses the [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] computer to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1953: Gustav Herglotz dies ... mathematician. He is best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology. Pic.
||1953: Gustav Herglotz dies ... mathematician. He is best known for his works on the theory of relativity and seismology. Pic.

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  • 1868: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan born. Millikan will win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.

    1868: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan born. Millikan will win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.

  • 1909: Physicist Nathan Rosen born. Rosen will develop the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.

    1909: Physicist Nathan Rosen born. Rosen will develop the idea of the Einstein–Rosen bridge, later named the wormhole.

  • 1990: Engineer Gerald Bull assassinated. He attempted to build artillery guns which could launch satellites into orbit.

    1990: Engineer Gerald Bull assassinated. He attempted to build artillery guns which could launch satellites into orbit.

  • 2011: Computer scientist Philippe Flajolet dies. Flajolet contributed to general methods for analyzing the computational complexity of algorithms, including the theory of average-case complexity.

    2011: Computer scientist Philippe Flajolet dies. Flajolet contributed to general methods for analyzing the computational complexity of algorithms, including the theory of average-case complexity.

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