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||1933: The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold. | ||1933: The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold. | ||
|| | ||1940: Augustus Edward Hough Love dies ... mathematician and theorist ... famous for his work on the mathematical theory of elasticity. He also worked on wave propagation and his work on the structure of the Earth in Some Problems of Geodynamics won for him the Adams prize in 1911 when he developed a mathematical model of surface waves known as Love waves. Love also contributed to the theory of tidal locking and introduced the parameters known as Love numbers, which are widely used today. These numbers are also used in problems related to the tidal deformation of the Earth due to the gravitational attraction of the Moon and Sun. Pic. | ||
||1968: Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day. | ||1964: DSV ''Alvin'' is commissioned. | ||
||1968: Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day. Pic. | |||
||1976: Robert Pohl dies ... physicist at the University of Göttingen. he has been called the "father of solid state physics". Pic. | ||1976: Robert Pohl dies ... physicist at the University of Göttingen. he has been called the "father of solid state physics". Pic. | ||
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File:Ray Bradbury 1959.jpg|link=Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter [[Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|Ray Bradbury]] dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream". | File:Ray Bradbury 1959.jpg|link=Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter [[Ray Bradbury (nonfiction)|Ray Bradbury]] dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream". | ||
||2012: Mihai Pătrașcu dies ... computer scientist. | ||2012: Mihai Pătrașcu dies ... computer scientist. Pătraşcu’s work was concerned with fundamental questions about basic data structures. Pic. | ||
File:Mad King.jpg|link=Mad King (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Mad King (nonfiction)|Mad King]]'' stolen from the Tate in London by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang. | File:Mad King.jpg|link=Mad King (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Mad King (nonfiction)|Mad King]]'' stolen from the Tate in London by agents of the [[Forbidden Ratio]] gang. | ||
Revision as of 06:38, 16 April 2019
1756: Chemist, physician, agronomist, industrialist, statesman, educator, and philanthropist Jean-Antoine-Claude Chaptal born.
1861: USS Cairo retrofitted with military Gnomon algorithm functions.
1865: Council of algorithms announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms.
1900: Physicist and engineer Dennis Gabor born. He will invent holography, for which he will receive the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1910: Short story writer O. Henry, known for his surprise endings, dies.
2004: John Brunner publishes history of crimes against mathematical constants.
2012: Science fiction writer and screenwriter Ray Bradbury dies. The New York Times calls Bradbury "the writer most responsible for bringing modern science fiction into the literary mainstream".
2016: Signed first edition of Mad King stolen from the Tate in London by agents of the Forbidden Ratio gang.
2019: Signed first edition of Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer (1) purchased for an undisclosed amount by "a well-known Gnomon algorithm theorist living in New Minneapolis, Canada."