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||1952: [[Operation Hurricane (nonfiction)|Operation Hurricane]]: The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hurricane | ||1952: [[Operation Hurricane (nonfiction)|Operation Hurricane]]: The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hurricane | ||
||1957: The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is not obscene. | ||1957: The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg's ''Howl and Other Poems'' is not obscene. | ||
||1962: Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight. | ||1962: Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight. | ||
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||1965: George Washington Morey born ... geochemist, physical chemist, mineralogist, and petrologist, known for the "Morey bomb" used in hydrothermal research. Pic: https://library.gl.ciw.edu/GLHistory/pgmorey.html | ||1965: George Washington Morey born ... geochemist, physical chemist, mineralogist, and petrologist, known for the "Morey bomb" used in hydrothermal research. Pic: https://library.gl.ciw.edu/GLHistory/pgmorey.html | ||
||1966: Rolf Maximilian Sievert dies ... physicist and academic. | ||1966: Rolf Maximilian Sievert dies ... physicist and academic ... medical physicist whose major contribution was in the study of the biological effects of ionizing radiation. Pic. | ||
||1985: The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J). | ||1985: The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J). | ||
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||1986: TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened. | ||1986: TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened. | ||
||1990: Res Jost dies theoretical physicist, who worked mainly in constructive quantum field theory. | ||1990: Res Jost dies ... theoretical physicist, who worked mainly in constructive quantum field theory. Pic. | ||
File:John Crank.jpg|link=John Crank (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and physicist [[John Crank (nonfiction)|John Crank]] dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method. | File:John Crank.jpg|link=John Crank (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and physicist [[John Crank (nonfiction)|John Crank]] dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method. | ||
File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|2012: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells. | File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|2012: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells. | ||
||Leon Max Lederman dies ... experimental physicist who received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1982, along with Martin Lewis Perl, for their research on quarks and leptons, and the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for their research on neutrinos. Pic. | ||Leon Max Lederman dies ... experimental physicist who received the Wolf Prize in Physics in 1982, along with Martin Lewis Perl, for their research on quarks and leptons, and the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1988, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, for their research on neutrinos. Pic. | ||
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1842: Mathematician Arthur Cayley admitted to fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, at age 21, younger than any other fellow at the College.
1881: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt dies. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt embraced the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.
1882: Canterbury scrying engine reprogrammed to detect and expose crimes against mathematical constants.
1891: Mathematician Édouard Lucas dies. He studied the Fibonacci sequence; the related Lucas sequences and Lucas numbers are named after him.
1930: Mathematician Robin Farquharson born. He will write an influential analysis of voting systems in his doctoral thesis, later published as Theory of Voting.
2006: Mathematician and physicist John Crank dies. He worked on the numerical solution of partial differential equations; his work with Phyllis Nicolson on the heat equation resulted in the Crank–Nicolson method.
2012: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy dies. He is generally credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium could be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.