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File:Hermann_der_Lahme.gif|link=Hermann of Reichenau (nonfiction)|1054: Composer, mathematician, and astronomer [[Hermann of Reichenau (nonfiction)|Hermann of Reichenau]] dies. He wrote a treatise on the science of music, several works on geometry and arithmetic, and astronomical treatises (including instructions for the construction of an astrolabe, at the time a very novel device in Western Europe). | |||
File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1501: [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance. | File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1501: [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance. | ||
||1541: Paracelsus dies ... physician, botanist, and chemist. No DOB. Pic. | |||
File:Johan de Witt.jpg|link=Johan de Witt (nonfiction)|1625: Mathematician and politician [[Johan de Witt (nonfiction)|Johan de Witt]] born. He will derive the basic properties of quadratic forms, an important step in the field of linear algebra. | File:Johan de Witt.jpg|link=Johan de Witt (nonfiction)|1625: Mathematician and politician [[Johan de Witt (nonfiction)|Johan de Witt]] born. He will derive the basic properties of quadratic forms, an important step in the field of linear algebra. | ||
File: | ||1742: Johann Matthias Hase dies ... mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer. Pic: map. | ||
||1801: Mikhail Ostrogradsky born ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | |||
||1844: Max Noether born ... mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He has been called "one of the finest mathematicians of the nineteenth century". He was the father of Emmy Noether. Pic. | |||
File:Max_Noether_(between_1870_and_1875).jpg|link=Max Noether (nonfiction)|1844: Mathematician [[Max Noether (nonfiction)|Max Noether]] born. Noether will contribute to algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He will be the father of mathematician Emmy Noether. | |||
||1852: The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes. Pic. | |||
||1858: Carl P. Pulfrich born ... physicist, noted for advancements in optics made as a researcher for the Carl Zeiss company in Jena around 1880, and for documenting the Pulfrich effect, a psycho-optical phenomenon that can be used to create a type of 3-D visual effect. Pic. | |||
||1869: "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market. | |||
||1870: Georges Claude born ... chemist and engineer, invented Neon lighting. Pic. | |||
||1884: Hugo Schmeisser born ... weapons designer and engineer. Pic search. | |||
||1885: Viggo Brun born ... professor, mathematician and number theorist. In 1915, he introduced a new method, based on Legendre's version of the sieve of Eratosthenes, now known as the Brun sieve, which addresses additive problems such as Goldbach's conjecture and the twin prime conjecture. He used it to prove that there exist infinitely many integers n such that n and n+2 have at most nine prime factors, and that all large even integers are the sum of two numbers with at most nine prime factors. Pic. | |||
File:Harry_Hinsley,_Edward_Travis,_and_John_Tiltman_in_Washington,_November_1945.jpg|link=Edward Travis (nonfiction)|1888: Cryptographer and intelligence officer [[Edward Travis (nonfiction)|Edward Travis]] born. Travis will become the operational head of Bletchley Park during World War II, and later become the head of GCHQ. | |||
||1888: Launch of ''Gymnote'', one of the world's first all-electric submarine and the first functional submarine equipped with torpedoes. | |||
||1889: Charles Leroux dies ... balloonist and skydiver. Pic (with parachute). | |||
||1891: William F. Friedman born ... US Army cryptographer who ran the research division of the Army's Signal Intelligence Service (SIS) in the 1930s, and parts of its follow-on services into the 1950s. Pic. | |||
||1894: Werner Wolfgang Rogosinski born ... mathematician. His interest was analytical problems, especially in series. His dissertation, "New Application of Pfeiffer's method for Dirichlet's divisor problem", caused a stir in 1922. Pic. | |||
||1895: André Frédéric Cournand born ... physician and physiologist, shared the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Werner Forssmann and Dickinson W. Richards for the development of cardiac catheterization. Pic. | |||
||1896: Tadeusz Ważewski born ... mathematician. He made important contributions to the theory of ordinary differential equations, partial differential equations, control theory and the theory of analytic spaces. Ważewski is most famous for applying the topological concept of retract to the study of the solutions of differential equations. Pic: http://www.archiwum-nauki.krakow.pl/pl/wystawy/wazewski.html | |||
||1898: Howard Florey born ... pharmacologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1898: Charlotte Moore Sitterly born ... astronomer. Pic search. | |||
||1900: Ham Fisher born ... cartoonist. | |||
||1904: Niels Ryberg Finsen dies ... physician and scientist ... awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology in 1903 "in recognition of his contribution to the treatment of diseases, especially lupus vulgaris, with concentrated light radiation, whereby he has opened a new avenue for medical science." Pic. | |||
||1904: Evan Tom Davies born ... mathematician and linguist. He studied applications of the Lie derivative as it relates to Riemannian geometry as well as absolute differential calculus. Pic search. | |||
||1905: Severo Ochoa born ... physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. | |||
||1906: U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument. | |||
||1907: John Ray Dunning dies ... physicist who played key roles in the Manhattan Project that developed the first atomic bombs. He specialized in neutron physics, and did pioneering work in gaseous diffusion for isotope separation. Pic. | |||
||1911: Menahem Max Schiffer born ... mathematician who worked in complex analysis, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Schiffer.html | |||
||1911: His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness. | |||
||1913: Astronomer and academic Lawrence Hugh Aller born. His work concentrated on the chemical composition of stars and nebulae. He was one of the first astronomers to argue that some differences in stellar and nebular spectra were caused by differences in their chemical composition. Pic search. | |||
||1916: Theodore Puck born ... geneticist. Puck was an early pioneer of "somatic cell genetics" and single-cell plating ( i.e. "cloning" .) This work allowed the genetics of human and other mammalian cells to be studied in detail. Also, Puck's team found that humans had 46 chromosomes rather than 48 which had earlier been believed. Pic search. | |||
||1918: Michael J. S. Dewar born ... American theoretical chemist who developed the Dewar-Chatt-Duncanson model. Dewar is known most famously for the development in the 1970s and 1980s of the Semi-empirical quantum chemistry methods, MINDO, MNDO, AM1 and PM3 that are in the MOPAC computer program, and which for the first time enabled the quantitative study of the structure and mechanism of reaction (transition state) of many real (i.e. large) systems. Pic. | |||
|| | ||1920: Peter Carl Fabergé dies ... goldsmith and jeweler. Pic. | ||
| | ||1920: Leo Marks born ... cryptographer, playwright, and screenwriter. Pic. | ||
||1923: Raoul Bott born ... mathematician. Pic. | |||
File:John Killian Houston Brunner circa 1967.jpg|link=John Brunner (nonfiction)|1934: Writer and peace activist [[John Brunner (nonfiction)|John Brunner]] born. | File:John Killian Houston Brunner circa 1967.jpg|link=John Brunner (nonfiction)|1934: Writer and peace activist [[John Brunner (nonfiction)|John Brunner]] born. | ||
||1935: Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi. | |||
File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] dies. He proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant. | File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] dies. He proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant. | ||
File: | ||1940: Westinghouse patent application for the Nimatron, a machine to play the game of Nim, is approved. Created by Eduard Condon, Edgewood Tawney, Gerald Tawney, and Willard Dorr, the machine would be featured in the Westinghouse exhibit at the 1940 World's Fair. The machine played 100,000 games at the fair, winning about 90,000. Most of its defeats were apparently administered by attendants to demonstrate that possibility. When the machine did lose it would "present its opponent with a token coin stamped with the words 'Nim Champ'". https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimatron | ||
||1945: Hans Geiger dies ... physicist and academic, co-invented the Geiger counter. Pic. | |||
||1957: President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation. | |||
||1960: USS ''Enterprise'', the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched. | |||
||1967: Pauline Sperry dies ... mathematician. Sperry was an active Quaker and involved in various humanitarian and political causes. At the height of McCarthyism, the Board of Regents required university employees to sign a loyalty oath. Sperry, Hans Lewy, and others who refused were barred from teaching without pay in 1950. In the case Tolman v. Underhill, the California Supreme Court ruled in 1952 the loyalty oath unconstitutional and reinstated those who refused to sign. Sperry was reinstated with back pay and the title emeritus associate professor. Pic. | |||
||1979: CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service. | |||
File:Theodore Geisel (1957).jpg|link=Dr. Seuss (nonfiction)|1991: Children's author, political cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator, screenwriter, and filmmaker [[Dr. Seuss (nonfiction)|Theodor Seuss "Ted" Geisel]] dies. Geisel wrote and illustrated more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss, including many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages. | |||
|File:Clifford Shull 1949.jpg|link=Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|1964: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|Clifford Shull]] the neutron scattering technique to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1993: Bruno Pontecorvo dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | |||
||1999: Anneli Cahn Lax dies ... mathematician, who was known for being an editor of the Mathematics Association of America's New Mathematical Library Series, and for her work in reforming mathematics education with the inclusion of language skills. Pic search. | |||
||2004: Raja Ramanna dies ... physicist and politician. He was associated with and directed India's nuclear program for more than four decades, and also initiated industrial defence programmes for the Indian Armed Forces. Pic. | |||
||2007: Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky dies ... physicist. Pic search. | |||
||2014: Madis Kõiv dies ... physicist, philosopher, and author. | |||
||2014: The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), a Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), successfully inserted into orbit of Mars | |||
||2015: Peter P. Sorokin dies ... physicist and co-inventor of the dye laser. Pic. | |||
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Latest revision as of 14:06, 7 February 2022
1054: Composer, mathematician, and astronomer Hermann of Reichenau dies. He wrote a treatise on the science of music, several works on geometry and arithmetic, and astronomical treatises (including instructions for the construction of an astrolabe, at the time a very novel device in Western Europe).
1501: Gerolamo Cardano born. He will be one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.
1625: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt born. He will derive the basic properties of quadratic forms, an important step in the field of linear algebra.
1844: Mathematician Max Noether born. Noether will contribute to algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He will be the father of mathematician Emmy Noether.
1888: Cryptographer and intelligence officer Edward Travis born. Travis will become the operational head of Bletchley Park during World War II, and later become the head of GCHQ.
1934: Writer and peace activist John Brunner born.
1938: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann dies. He proved that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.
1991: Children's author, political cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator, screenwriter, and filmmaker Theodor Seuss "Ted" Geisel dies. Geisel wrote and illustrated more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Seuss, including many of the most popular children's books of all time, selling over 600 million copies and being translated into more than 20 languages.