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||1975: George Paget Thomson dies ... physicist and academic ... discovered of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. Pic. | ||1975: George Paget Thomson dies ... physicist and academic ... discovered of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. Pic. |
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1749: Mathematician and physicist Émilie du Châtelet born. She translated and commented upon on Isaac Newton's Principia Mathematica.
1849: Mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce born. He wil be remembered as "the father of pragmatism".
1892: American physicist and academic Arthur Compton born. He will win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1927 for his 1923 discovery of the Compton effect, demonstrating the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation.
1975: Mathematician, computer scientist, and crime-fighter Andrzej Trybulec uses the Mizar system to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1976: Screenwriter and novelist Dalton Trumbo dies. He was blacklisted for refusing testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947; while blacklisted, he won Academy Awards for two films: Roman Holiday, attributed to a front author, and The Brave One under the pseudonym Robert Rich.
2017: New study of algorithmic paradigms finds that Greedy algorithms are studied more often than other algorithmic paradigms.
2018: Red Spiral voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.