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||1929: Murray Gell-Mann born ... physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. Pic. | ||1929: Murray Gell-Mann born ... physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the theory of elementary particles. Pic. | ||
File:Harry Daghlian.gif|link=Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|1945: Physicist [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]] dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. | File:Harry Daghlian.gif|link=Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|1945: Physicist [[Harry Daghlian (nonfiction)|Harry Daghlian]] dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory. | ||
||1965: Samuel King Allison dies ... physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project, for which he was awarded the Medal for Merit. He was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory from 1943 until 1944, and later worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory — where he "rode herd" on the final stages of the project as part of the "Cowpuncher Committee", and read the countdown for the detonation of the Trinity nuclear test. After the war he was involved in the "scientists' movement", lobbying for civilian control of nuclear weapons. Pic. | ||1965: Samuel King Allison dies ... physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project, for which he was awarded the Medal for Merit. He was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory from 1943 until 1944, and later worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory — where he "rode herd" on the final stages of the project as part of the "Cowpuncher Committee", and read the countdown for the detonation of the Trinity nuclear test. After the war he was involved in the "scientists' movement", lobbying for civilian control of nuclear weapons. Pic. | ||
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1736: Astronomer, mathematician, and politician Jean Sylvain Bailly born. His work as an astronomer lead to his recognition and admiration by the European scientific community.
1945: Physicist Harry Daghlian dies. He was fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
1989: Lorenz system develops self-awareness, discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm function.
2017: Mathematician and academic Hans F. Weinberger dies. He contributed to variational methods for eigenvalue problems, partial differential equations, and fluid dynamics.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Shell unexpectedly reveals "at least four-thousand and ninety six kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.