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1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.
1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
1680: Vandal Savage uses solar eclipse to commit series of crimes against mathematical constants.
1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
1933: Ready Kilowatt performs in off-Broadway adaption of Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem.

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 File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] born.  He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
+||Yuval Ne'eman (b. 14 May 1925) was an Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. Pic.
 ||1928 – Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch engineer, author, and academic (d. 2015) -  also a professional author of technical literature, nonfiction books, thrillers and a decisive biography of the master forger Han van Meegeren.