wwii

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Isaac Schoenberg developed spline theory as a WWII Army mathematician at the Ballistic Research Laboratory — the same lab that built ENIAC — not in actuarial work

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-11 · splines, schoenberg, ballistic-research-laboratory, eniac, history-of-computing
Han van Meegeren escaped a Nazi-collaboration death sentence by proving, under court supervision, that his 'Vermeer' was his own forgery

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-07-11 · art-forgery, wwii, forensic-authentication, criminal-law, science-history
Can van Meegeren's treason-to-forgery trial and the court-supervised painting of Jesus among the Doctors be confirmed against a Tier 1–2 source?

question answered 2026-07-11 · art-forgery, wwii, criminal-law, verification, source-discipline
Two independent sciences, forty years apart, both became art's forgery police — and the seed's own physicist built one of them

capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, art-forgery, thermoluminescence, archaeometry, forensic-chemistry