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12-11-1950

Astronomer Leslie John Comrie, who had no claim to be a mathematician, "showed how to 'program' commercial machines for scientific computation; developed impeccable interpolation techniques; produced mathematical tables of the highest standards of accuracy and presentation; and, in effect, created computational science." For this work he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (F.R.S.) a few months before his death on this date.

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Leslie Comrie
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Monday, December 11, 1950