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||1900 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) | ||1900 – Dennis Gabor, Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1979) | ||
||Sir Rudolf Ernst Peierls, CBE (b. 5 June 1907) was a German-born British physicist who played a major role in Tube Alloys, Britain's nuclear programme, and the Manhattan Project. | |||
File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1910: Short story writer [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]], known for his surprise endings, dies. | File:William Sydney Porter.jpg|link=O. Henry (nonfiction)|1910: Short story writer [[O. Henry (nonfiction)|O. Henry]], known for his surprise endings, dies. | ||
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1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.
1865: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.
2004: John Brunner publishes history of crimes against mathematical constants.
2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".