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February 8, 1957

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Headlines from February 8, 1957

CITY PANEL BACKS STATE COURT PLAN; Mayor's Committee Asserts Tweed Program is Sound, but Askes Some Changes State-wide System Is Aim CITY PANEL BACKS STATE COURT PLAN Only City's Needs Discussed Backs Supreme Court Elections

By Russell Porter

Mayor's Com on Cts backs basic features of reorgn plan; proposes some changes including: single admr of NYC cts, voice for Mayor in determining share of costs to be paid by NYC in proposed state-wide budget, apptg all judges in proposed Gen Ct, creation of judicial comm to designate a 'qualified' list for apptmts to Gen Ct

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Notable Births

Karine Chemla

1957Karine Chemla, French historian of mathematics and sinologist[†]

Karine Chemla is a French historian of mathematics and sinologist who works as a director of research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). She is also a senior fellow at the New York University Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. She was elected a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2019.

Notable Deaths

Walther Bothe

1957Walther Bothe, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)[†]

Walther Wilhelm Georg Bothe was a German physicist who shared the 1954 Nobel Prize in Physics with Max Born "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith".

John von Neumann

1957John von Neumann, Hungarian-American mathematician and physicist (born 1903)[†]

John von Neumann was a Hungarian and American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist and engineer. Von Neumann had perhaps the widest coverage of any mathematician of his time, integrating pure and applied sciences and making major contributions to many fields, including mathematics, physics, economics, computing, and statistics. He was a pioneer in building the mathematical framework of quantum physics, in the development of functional analysis, and in game theory, introducing or codifying concepts including cellular automata, the universal constructor and the digital computer. His analysis of the structure of self-replication preceded the discovery of the structure of DNA.

Historical Context for February 8, 1957

In 1957, the world population was approximately 2,852,618,337 people[†]