Template:Selected anniversaries/August 12: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 10:36, 11 August 2018

1827: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake dies.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley arrives at Charleston, South Carolina by rail.
1865 – Joseph Lister, British surgeon and scientist, performs first antiseptic surgery, using carbolic acid (phenol) as a disinfectant.
1887: Physicist and academic Erwin Schrödinger born. He will be awarded the 1933 Nobel Prize for Physics for the formulation of the Schrödinger equation.
1937: Astronomer and crime-fighter George Ellery Hale publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions, based on magnetic fields in sunspots, which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1989: Physicist and inventor William Shockley dies. He shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the point-contact transistor.
1996: Astronomer and crime-fighter Vera Rubin computes the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion, makes contact with AESOP.
2005: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launched.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the twelfth anniversary of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launch.
2017: AESOP re-broadcasts 1996 conversation with astronomer and crime-fighter Vera Rubin about the discrepancy between the predicted angular motion of galaxies and the observed motion.

@@ Line 20: / Line 20: @@
 File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine [[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]] arrives at Charleston, South Carolina by rail.
-File:Joseph Lister 1902.jpg|link=Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|1865 – [[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]], British surgeon and scientist, performs first antiseptic surgery, using carbolic acid (phenol) as a disinfectant. Lister knew carbolic acid had been effective in municipal use for treating sewage, and decided to try using it to kill germs that would otherwise infect wounds. He poured phenol on bandages, ligatures, instruments and directly on the wound and hands. His first patient to benefit from this procedure was James Greenlees, age 12, whose broken leg was treated after being run over by a cart. The dressing was soaked with phenol and linseed oil; the wound healed without infection.
+File:Joseph Lister 1902.jpg|link=Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|1865 – [[Joseph Lister (nonfiction)|Joseph Lister]], British surgeon and scientist, performs first antiseptic surgery, using carbolic acid (phenol) as a disinfectant.
 ||1885 – Jean Cabannes, French physicist and academic (d. 1959)