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File:Cherenkov high-energy literature test reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|1977: [[High-energy literature]] used during [[Saturnalia (nonfiction)|Saturnalia]] for the first time.
File:Cherenkov high-energy literature test reactor.jpg|link=High-energy literature|1977: [[High-energy literature]] used during [[Saturnalia (nonfiction)|Saturnalia]] for the first time.
||Jürgen Kurt Moser (d. December 17, 1999) was an award-winning, German-American mathematician, honored for work spanning over 4 decades, including Hamiltonian dynamical systems and partial differential equations.


||2003 – SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight.
||2003 – SpaceShipOne, piloted by Brian Binnie, makes its first powered and first supersonic flight.

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  • 500 BC: Dionysus gives speech which anticipates the coming of Saturnalia.

    500 BC: Dionysus gives speech which anticipates the coming of Saturnalia.

  • 497 BC: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome.

    497 BC: The first Saturnalia festival celebrated in ancient Rome.

  • 1706: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet born. She will translate and comment upon on Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.

    1706: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet born. She will translate and comment upon on Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.

  • 1842: Mathematician and academic Marius Sophus Lie born. He will largely create the theory of continuous symmetry and apply it to the study of geometry and differential equations.

    1842: Mathematician and academic Marius Sophus Lie born. He will largely create the theory of continuous symmetry and apply it to the study of geometry and differential equations.

  • 1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn devotes himself to fighting crimes against mathematical constants.

    1855: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn devotes himself to fighting crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1900: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright born. She will do pioneering work in what will later be called chaos theory.

    1900: Mathematician and academic Mary Cartwright born. She will do pioneering work in what will later be called chaos theory.

  • 1907: Lord Kelvin dies. He did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.

    1907: Lord Kelvin dies. He did much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.

  • 1938: Physicist Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

    1938: Physicist Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

  • 1977: High-energy literature used during Saturnalia for the first time.

    1977: High-energy literature used during Saturnalia for the first time.

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