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* [[finite element method#History|First recorded use]] of the term "finite element method" by [[Ray W. Clough|Ray Clough]],<ref>RW Clough, “The Finite Element Method in Plane

Stress Analysis,” Proceedings of 2nd ASCE Conference on Electronic Computation, Pittsburgh, PA, Sept. 8, 9, 1960.</ref> to describe the methods of Courant, Hrenikoff and Zienkiewicz, among others. See also [[Structural analysis#Timeline|here]].

* [[Edward Lorenz]] discovers the [[butterfly effect]] on a computer, attracting interest in [[chaos theory]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Lorenz|first=Edward N.|title=Deterministic Nonperiodic Flow|journal=Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences |volume=20 |issue=2 |pages=130–141|year=1963|url=http://www.nd.edu/~powers/ame.60611/lorenz.article.pdf |doi=10.1175/1520-0469(1963)020<0130:dnf>2.0.co;2}}</ref>

* Molecular dynamics invented independently by [[Aneesur Rahman]].<ref>{{cite journal|last=Rahman|first=A|title=Correlations in the Motion of Atoms in Liquid Argon|journal=Phys Rev|year=1964|volume=136|issue=2A|pages=A405–A41|doi=10.1103/PhysRev.136.A405}}</ref>

* Fast Fourier Transform (voted one of the top 10 [[algorithms]] of the 20th century) invented by Cooley and Tukey.<ref>Cooley, James W., and John W. Tukey, "An algorithm for the machine calculation of complex Fourier series," Math. Comput. 19, 297–301 (1965).</ref>