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||1624: George Heriot dies ... goldsmith and philanthropist, founded George Heriot's School.
||1624: George Heriot dies ... goldsmith and philanthropist, founded George Heriot's School.
||1637: Jan Swammerdam born ... biologist and microscopist. His work on insects demonstrated that the various phases during the life of an insect—egg, larva, pupa, and adult—are different forms of the same animal.  Pic.


||1665: Rudolf Jakob Camerarius born ... botanist and physician.
||1665: Rudolf Jakob Camerarius born ... botanist and physician.
||1685: George Hadley born ... lawyer and amateur meteorologist who proposed the atmospheric mechanism by which the trade winds are sustained, which is now named in his honour as Hadley circulation.  No pic online.


File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1767: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent a cross-linked set of crimes against [[Crimes against physical constants|physics]], [[Crimes against astronomical constants|astronomy]], and [[Crimes against mathematical constants|mathematics]].
File:Rudjer Boskovic.jpg|link=Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|1767: Polymath [[Roger Joseph Boscovich (nonfiction)|Roger Joseph Boscovich]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent a cross-linked set of crimes against [[Crimes against physical constants|physics]], [[Crimes against astronomical constants|astronomy]], and [[Crimes against mathematical constants|mathematics]].
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||1794: Alexander Petrov born ... chess player and composer.
||1794: Alexander Petrov born ... chess player and composer.


||1804: Immanuel Kant dies ... anthropologist, philosopher, and academic.
||1804: Immanuel Kant dies ... anthropologist, philosopher, and academic. Pic.


||1804: Heinrich Lenz born ... physicist and academic.
||1804: Heinrich Lenz born ... physicist and academic.
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||1897: Lincoln LaPaz born ... astronomer and academic.
||1897: Lincoln LaPaz born ... astronomer and academic.
||1905: Harold Stanley Ruse born ... mathematician, noteworthy for the development of the concept of locally harmonic spaces. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Harold+Stanley+Ruse


||1908: Jean Effel born ... painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist.
||1908: Jean Effel born ... painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist.


||1908: Jacques Herbrand born ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic.
||1908: Jacques Herbrand born ... mathematician and philosopher. He worked in mathematical logic and class field theory. He introduced recursive functions. Herbrand's theorem refers to either of two completely different theorems. One is a result from his doctoral thesis in proof theory, and the other one half of the Herbrand–Ribet theorem. Pic.


||1912: Hans Hermes born ... mathematician and logician, who made significant contributions to the foundations of mathematical logic. Pic.
||1912: Hans Hermes born ... mathematician and logician, who made significant contributions to the foundations of mathematical logic. Pic.
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||1918: Julian Schwinger, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate born ... best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED), in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order.  
||1918: Julian Schwinger, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate born ... best known for his work on the theory of quantum electrodynamics (QED), in particular for developing a relativistically invariant perturbation theory, and for renormalizing QED to one loop order.  
||1921: Kathleen Antonelli born ... computer programmer and one of the six original programmers of the ENIAC, one of the first general-purpose electronic digital computers. Pic.


||1928: Edwin Albert Power born ... physicist and an emeritus professor of applied mathematics. He made several contributions to the field of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics (NRQED). Pic.
||1928: Edwin Albert Power born ... physicist and an emeritus professor of applied mathematics. He made several contributions to the field of non-relativistic quantum electrodynamics (NRQED). Pic.
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File:Robert J. Van de Graaff.jpg|link=Robert J. Van de Graaff|1935: Physicist and engineer Robert Jemison Van de Graaff receives a patent for his Electrostatic Generator design (U.S. No. 1,991,236), able to generate direct-current voltages much higher than the 700,000-V which was the state of the art at the time using other methods.
File:Robert J. Van de Graaff.jpg|link=Robert J. Van de Graaff|1935: Physicist and engineer Robert Jemison Van de Graaff receives a patent for his Electrostatic Generator design (U.S. No. 1,991,236), able to generate direct-current voltages much higher than the 700,000-V which was the state of the art at the time using other methods.
||1935: Physicist and engineer Robert Watson-Watt submitted the idea for Radar to the Air Ministry in a secret memo, "Detection and location of aircraft by radio methods" . The method would be tested on Feb 26 in a field just off the present day A5 in Northamptonshire near the village of Upper Stowe. Watson-Watt received a patent on his device on April 2. Pic.


||1936: Fang Lizhi born ... Chinese astrophysicist and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Pic.
||1936: Fang Lizhi born ... Chinese astrophysicist and activist whose liberal ideas inspired the pro-democracy student movement of 1986–87 and, finally, the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. Pic.

Revision as of 07:35, 12 February 2019

  • 1767: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent a cross-linked set of crimes against physics, astronomy, and mathematics.

    1767: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent a cross-linked set of crimes against physics, astronomy, and mathematics.

  • 1914: Mathematician and academic Hanna Neumann born. She will contribute to group theory, co-authoring the important paper Wreath products and varieties of groups (with her husband Bernhard and eldest son Peter), and authoring the influential book Varieties of Groups (1967).

    1914: Mathematician and academic Hanna Neumann born. She will contribute to group theory, co-authoring the important paper Wreath products and varieties of groups (with her husband Bernhard and eldest son Peter), and authoring the influential book Varieties of Groups (1967).

  • 1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind dies. He made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.

    1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind dies. He made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.

  • 1935: Physicist and engineer Robert Jemison Van de Graaff receives a patent for his Electrostatic Generator design (U.S. No. 1,991,236), able to generate direct-current voltages much higher than the 700,000-V which was the state of the art at the time using other methods.

    1935: Physicist and engineer Robert Jemison Van de Graaff receives a patent for his Electrostatic Generator design (U.S. No. 1,991,236), able to generate direct-current voltages much higher than the 700,000-V which was the state of the art at the time using other methods.

  • 1946: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive meet goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the original event.

    1946: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive meet goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the original event.

  • 1947: Chemist Moses Gomberg dies. He identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.

    1947: Chemist Moses Gomberg dies. He identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.

  • 1959: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged criminal mastermind Skip Digits uses high-energy literature techniques to record his hit song "Clepsydra".

    1959: Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and alleged criminal mastermind Skip Digits uses high-energy literature techniques to record his hit song "Clepsydra".

  • 1960: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson dies. He made important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.

    1960: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson dies. He made important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.

  • 1961: Spacecraft Venera 1 launched. It will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).

    1961: Spacecraft Venera 1 launched. It will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).

  • 1983: High-energy literature research project accidentally releases new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1983: High-energy literature research project accidentally releases new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

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    1994: Mathematical physicist Charles Critchfield dies. He worked on the Manhattan Project, designing and testing the "Urchin" neutron initiator which provided the burst of neutrons that kick-started the nuclear detonation of the Fat Man weapon.

  • 2016: Steganographic analysis of Green Tangle reveals "at least a megabyte" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

    2016: Steganographic analysis of Green Tangle reveals "at least a megabyte" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

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