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||1637 – Isaac Beeckman, Dutch scientist and philosopher (b. 1588). No pic.
||1637: Isaac Beeckman dies ... scientist and philosopher. No pic.


File:Termómetro Christin 1743.jpg|link=Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|1743: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer [[Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|Jean-Pierre Christin]] publishes the design of a mercury thermometer based on the Celsius scale. The "Thermometer of Lyon" will be built by the craftsman Pierre Casati using this design.
File:Termómetro Christin 1743.jpg|link=Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|1743: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer [[Jean-Pierre Christin (nonfiction)|Jean-Pierre Christin]] publishes the design of a mercury thermometer based on the Celsius scale. The "Thermometer of Lyon" will be built by the craftsman Pierre Casati using this design.


||1762 – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher and academic (d. 1814)
||1762: Johann Gottlieb Fichte born ... philosopher and academic.


||1773 – Arthur Aikin, English chemist and mineralogist (d. 1854)
||1773: Arthur Aikin born ... chemist and mineralogist.


||1780 – New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.
||1780: New England's Dark Day, an unusual darkening of the day sky was observed over the New England states and parts of Canada.


||1857 – John Jacob Abel, American biochemist and pharmacologist (d. 1938)
||1857: John Jacob Abel born ... biochemist and pharmacologist.


File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1883: Signed first edition of ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Interview with Wallace War-Heels]]'' stolen. It will later be recovered by [[Niles Cartouchian]] and returned to the Smithsonian Museum.
File:Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels.jpg|link=Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|1883: Signed first edition of ''[[Mark Twain Interviews Wallace War-Heels|Interview with Wallace War-Heels]]'' stolen. It will later be recovered by [[Niles Cartouchian]] and returned to the Smithsonian Museum.
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File:Ruth Ella Moore.jpg|link=Ruth Ella Moore (nonfiction)|1903: Bacteriologist [[Ruth Ella Moore (nonfiction)|Ruth Ella Moore]] born. She will  publish work on tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans.
File:Ruth Ella Moore.jpg|link=Ruth Ella Moore (nonfiction)|1903: Bacteriologist [[Ruth Ella Moore (nonfiction)|Ruth Ella Moore]] born. She will  publish work on tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans.


||1907 – Benjamin Baker, English engineer, designed the Forth Bridge (b. 1840)
||1907: Benjamin Baker dies ... engineer, designed the Forth Bridge.


||1914 – Max Perutz, Austrian-English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
||1914: Max Perutz born ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1918 – Abraham Pais, Dutch-American physicist, historian, and academic (d. 2000)
||1918: Abraham Pais born ... physicist, historian, and academic.


||1927 – Serge Lang, French-American mathematician, author and academic (d. 2005)
||1927: Serge Lang born ... mathematician, author and academic.


||Sergey Mergelyan (b. born 19 May 1928) was an Armenian mathematician who made major contributions to Approximation Theory.  Pic.
||1928: Sergey Mergelyan born ... mathematician who made major contributions to Approximation Theory.  Pic.


||Rudolf Emil Kálmán (b. May 19, 1930) was a Hungarian-born American electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He was most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control. Pic.
||1930: Rudolf Emil Kálmán born ... electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He was most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control. Pic.


||Friederich Pius Philipp Furtwängler (d. May 19, 1940) was a German number theorist.
||1940: Friederich Pius Philipp Furtwängler dies ... number theorist.


||1942 – Gary Kildall, American computer scientist, founded Digital Research Inc. (d. 1994)
||1942: Gary Kildall born ... computer scientist, founded Digital Research Inc.  


||Sir Joseph Larmor FRS FRSE DCL LLD (d. 1942) was a Northern Irish physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter.
||1942: Joseph Larmor dies ... physicist and mathematician who made innovations in the understanding of electricity, dynamics, thermodynamics, and the electron theory of matter. Pic: http://www.newulsterbiography.co.uk/index.php/home/viewPerson/825


||1949: György Elekes born ... mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in Combinatorial geometry and Combinatorial set theory. He may be best known for his work in the field that would eventually be called Additive Combinatorics. Particularly notable was his "ingenious" application of the Szemerédi–Trotter theorem to improve the best known lower bound for the sum-product problem.[3] He also proved that any polynomial-time algorithm approximating the volume of convex bodies must have a multiplicative error, and the error grows exponentially on the dimension. Pic: https://adamsheffer.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/incidences-lower-bounds-part-2/
||1949: György Elekes born ... mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in Combinatorial geometry and Combinatorial set theory. He may be best known for his work in the field that would eventually be called Additive Combinatorics. Particularly notable was his "ingenious" application of the Szemerédi–Trotter theorem to improve the best known lower bound for the sum-product problem.[3] He also proved that any polynomial-time algorithm approximating the volume of convex bodies must have a multiplicative error, and the error grows exponentially on the dimension. Pic: https://adamsheffer.wordpress.com/2014/07/01/incidences-lower-bounds-part-2/

Revision as of 12:27, 23 August 2018

  • 1743: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin publishes the design of a mercury thermometer based on the Celsius scale. The "Thermometer of Lyon" will be built by the craftsman Pierre Casati using this design.

    1743: Physicist, mathematician, and astronomer Jean-Pierre Christin publishes the design of a mercury thermometer based on the Celsius scale. The "Thermometer of Lyon" will be built by the craftsman Pierre Casati using this design.

  • 1883: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels stolen. It will later be recovered by Niles Cartouchian and returned to the Smithsonian Museum.

    1883: Signed first edition of Interview with Wallace War-Heels stolen. It will later be recovered by Niles Cartouchian and returned to the Smithsonian Museum.

  • 1903: Bacteriologist Ruth Ella Moore born. She will publish work on tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans.

    1903: Bacteriologist Ruth Ella Moore born. She will publish work on tuberculosis, immunology and dental caries, the response of gut microorganisms to antibiotics, and the blood type of African-Americans.

  • 1954: Computer programmer Jean Bartik discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

    1954: Computer programmer Jean Bartik discovers new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1961: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).

    1961: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).

  • 1971: The Soviet Union launches the Mars 2 spacecraft. The spacecraft will reach Mars, but the landing module will crash after failing to deploy its parachute.

    1971: The Soviet Union launches the Mars 2 spacecraft. The spacecraft will reach Mars, but the landing module will crash after failing to deploy its parachute.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars remembers the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 launch, observing a moment of silence for the failure of the mission.

    2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars remembers the forty-sixth anniversary of the Mars 2 launch, observing a moment of silence for the failure of the mission.

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