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File: | ||1429: Jamshīd al-Kāshī dies ... astronomer and mathematician. No pic, no birth date. | ||
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File:Galileo E pur si muove.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1633: The Holy Office in Rome forces [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy. | |||
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File:Anarchimedes measuring Galileo.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|1633: Rogue mathematician and alleged supervillain taunts [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] for recanting, daring Galileo to "tell it like it is, and let them burn you for it." | |||
||1792: James Beaumont Neilson born ... engineer and businessman ... iron smelting. Pic. | |||
||1837: Paul Morphy born ... chess player. | |||
||1837: Paul Gustav Heinrich Bachmann born ... mathematician. His major works include ''Analytische Zahlentheorie'', a work on analytic number theory in which Big O notation was first introduced. Pic. | |||
||1848: William Macewen dies ... surgeon and neuroscientist. Pic. | |||
||1860: Mario Pieri born ... mathematician who is known for his work on foundations of geometry. Pic. | |||
File:Hermann Minkowski.jpg|link=Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|1864: Mathematician and academic [[Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|Hermann Minkowski]] born. He will show that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime". | |||
||1874: Howard Staunton dies ... chess player. | |||
||1878: John Burton Cleland born ... naturalist, microbiologist, mycologist and ornithologist. He was Professor of Pathology at the University of Adelaide and was consulted on high-level police inquiries, such as the famous Taman Shud Case in 1948 and later. Pic. | |||
||1885: Milan Vidmar born ... engineer and chess player. | |||
||1892: Pierre Ossian Bonnet dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | |||
||1894: Bernard Ashmole born ... archaeologist and historian. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=bernard+ashmole | |||
||1899: Richard Gurley Drew born ... engineer, invented Masking tape. | |||
||1906: William Kneale born ... logician and philosopher ... best known for his 1962 book ''The Development of Logic'', a history of logic from its beginnings in Ancient Greece written with his wife Martha.Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=william+kneale | |||
||1906: Eduard Ott-Heinrich Keller born ... mathematician who worked in the fields of geometry, topology and algebraic geometry. He formulated the celebrated problem which is now called the Jacobian conjecture in 1939. Pic. | |||
File:Konrad Zuse (1992).jpg|link=Konrad Zuse (nonfiction)|1910: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist [[Konrad Zuse (nonfiction)|Konrad Zuse]] born. He will invent the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer. | |||
||1920: James H. Pomerene born ... computer scientist and engineer. | |||
||1921: Nicolaas 'Nico' Godfried van Kampen born ... theoretical physicist, who worked mainly on statistical mechanics and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. No pic. | |||
||1924: Larkin Kerwin born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | |||
||1925: Felix Klein dies ... mathematician and academic ... mathematics educator, known for his work in group theory, complex analysis, non-Euclidean geometry, and on the connections between geometry and group theory. His 1872 Erlangen Program, classifying geometries by their underlying symmetry groups, was a highly influential synthesis of much of the mathematics of the day. Pic. | |||
||1930: Reinhold Remmert born ... mathematician. He established and developed the theory of complex-analytic spaces in joint work with Hans Grauert. Pic. | |||
||1940: Daniel Quillen born ... mathematician. He is known for being the "prime architect" of higher algebraic K-theory, for which he was awarded the Cole Prize in 1975 and the Fields Medal in 1978. Pic: https://ronsview.org/2011/05/10/daniel-quillen/ | |||
||1953: Mauro Francaviglia born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=mauro+francaviglia | |||
||1953: Hollow Nickle case: a newspaper boy (fourteen-year-old Jimmy Bozart), collecting for the Brooklyn Eagle, at an apartment building at 3403 Foster Avenue in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, was paid with a nickel (U.S. five-cent piece) that felt too light to him. When he dropped it on the ground, it popped open, revealing that it contained microfilm. The microfilm contained a series of numbers. He told the daughter of a New York City Police Department officer, and that officer told a detective who in two days told an FBI agent about the strange nickel. Pic. | |||
||1954: Karl Taylor Compton dies ... physicist and president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from 1930 to 1948. Pic. | |||
||1964: Vincent Justus Burnelli dies ... aeronautics engineer, instrumental in furthering the lifting body and flying wing concept. Pic. | |||
||1972: George Dawson Preston dies ... physicist specializing in crystallography and the structure of alloys. He was one of the first to use x-rays and electron diffraction to study the crystal structure of metals and alloys. He gives his name to the Guinier-Preston zone, discovered in 1938. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+Dawson+Preston | |||
File:Gabriel Sudan 1932.jpg|link=Gabriel Sudan (nonfiction)|1977: Mathematician [[Gabriel Sudan (nonfiction)|Gabriel Sudan]] dies. He discovered the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function. | |||
||1977: Marston Morse dies ... mathematician best known for his work on the calculus of variations in the large, a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known as Morse theory. Pic. | |||
||1978: Charon, Pluto's first satellite, was discovered at the United States Naval Observatory by James W. Christy. | |||
||1990: Ilya Frank dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | |||
||2004: Bob Bemer dies ... computer scientist and engineer. | |||
||2004: Thomas Gold dies ... astrophysicist. Pic. | |||
||2004: Victor Lvovich Talrose dies ... Russian scientist and mass spectrometrist ... the "Father of Russian Mass Spectrometry". Pic. | |||
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Latest revision as of 19:25, 6 February 2022
1633: The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe in the form he presented it in, after heated controversy.
1633: Rogue mathematician and alleged supervillain taunts Galileo Galilei for recanting, daring Galileo to "tell it like it is, and let them burn you for it."
1864: Mathematician and academic Hermann Minkowski born. He will show that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".
1910: Engineer, inventor, and pioneering computer scientist Konrad Zuse born. He will invent the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer.
1977: Mathematician Gabriel Sudan dies. He discovered the Sudan function, an important example in the theory of computation, similar to the Ackermann function.