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||1895 – William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982) | ||1895 – William Giauque, Canadian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1982) | ||
||Joseph John Rochefort (b. May 12, 1900) was an American Naval officer and cryptanalyst. His contributions and those of his team were pivotal to victory in the Pacific War. | ||Joseph John Rochefort (b. May 12, 1900) was an American Naval officer and cryptanalyst. His contributions and those of his team were pivotal to victory in the Pacific War. Rochefort was a major figure in the United States Navy's cryptographic and intelligence operations from 1925 to 1946, particularly in the Battle of Midway. | ||
Rochefort was a major figure in the United States Navy's cryptographic and intelligence operations from 1925 to 1946, particularly in the Battle of Midway. | |||
||William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (b. May 12, 1906 ) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer. | ||William Maurice "Doc" Ewing (b. May 12, 1906 ) was an American geophysicist and oceanographer. | ||
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1812: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear born either today or tomorrow.
1855: Poet-Wizard Jan Kochanowski uses Nebra sky disk to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1856: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer Jacques Philippe Marie Binet dies. He made significant contributions to number theory, and the mathematical foundations of matrix algebra.
1907: Mathematician, logician, and crime-fighter Stanisław Leśniewski publishes his philosophy of three nested formal systems and their application to detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.
1924: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann uses proof that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant, to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
2014: Painter, sculptor, and set designer H. R. Giger dies. He gained fame for his work on the film Alien.
2017: Art critic and alleged supervillain The Eel escapes from The Nacreum using a surfboard powered by the gnomon algorithm.