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||2008 – George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
||2008 – George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)
File:Tullio Regge.jpg|link=Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|2009: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|Tullio Regge]] uses spin foam models to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]], warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk."


||2014 – Harden M. McConnell, American chemist and academic (b. 1927)
||2014 – Harden M. McConnell, American chemist and academic (b. 1927)

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  • 1907: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.

    1907: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.

  • 1924: Mathematician and statistician John Nelder born. He will contribute to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He will also be responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities.

    1924: Mathematician and statistician John Nelder born. He will contribute to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He will also be responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities.

  • 1908: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess stolen by math criminals.

    1908: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess stolen by math criminals.

  • 1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.

    1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.

  • 1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu.

    1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu.

  • 1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

    1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.

  • 2009: Physicist and crime-fighter Tullio Regge uses spin foam models to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants, warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk."

    2009: Physicist and crime-fighter Tullio Regge uses spin foam models to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants, warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk."

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