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||1627: Johann Abraham Ihle born ... astronomer ... first globular cluster ... no DOB. Pic search. | |||
||1736: Charles-Augustin de Coulomb born ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | |||
||1746: Mathematician Colin Maclaurin dies. He made important contributions to geometry and algebra. The Maclaurin series, a special case of the Taylor series, is named after him. Pic. | |||
||1768: James Short dies ... mathematician and manufacturer of optical instruments, principally telescopes. During his 35 year career as a telescope-maker he produced approximately 1,360 scientific instruments. Pic: https://alchetron.com/James-Short-(mathematician) Pic: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/3749/james-short-1710-1768-mathematician-and-optician | |||
||1796: Nikolai Brashman born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | |||
File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|1791: Polymath [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]] proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables". | |||
||1818: Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé born ... Belgian nobleman and convicted murderer. He poisoned his brother-in-law in order to acquire some urgently needed money. In 1851, the chemist Jean Servais Stas proved that Visart de Bocarmé had used nicotine extracted from tobacco leaves as poison. This was the first exact proof of alkaloids in forensic medicine. Pic. | |||
||1825: Pierre Charles L'Enfant dies ... architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. Pic: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Charles_L%27Enfant | |||
||1856: Andrey Markov born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | |||
||1862: John Ulric Nef born ... chemist and academic ... discoverer of the Nef reaction and Nef synthesis. Pic search. | |||
||1868: Karl Landsteiner born ... biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1871: Jacob Ellehammer born ... mechanic, watchmaker, and inventor, remembered chiefly for his contributions to powered flight. Pic (helicopter!). | |||
||1975: Heinrich Louis d'Arrest dies ... astronomer. Pic. | |||
||1876: Jakob Meisenheimer born ... chemist. He made numerous contributions to organic chemistry, the most famous being his proposed structure for a group of compounds now named Meisenheimer complex. Pic. | |||
File:Alonzo Church.jpg|link=Alonzo Church (nonfiction)|1903: Mathematician and logician [[Alonzo Church (nonfiction)|Alonzo Church]] born. He will make major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science. | |||
||19212: Juan Pujol García born ... Spanish citizen who deliberately became a double agent against Nazi Germany during World War II. He relocated to England to carry out fictional spying activities for the Nazis, and was known by the British codename Garbo and the German codename Alaric Arabel. Pic. | |||
||1903: Rose Rand born ... logician and philosopher from the Vienna Circle. Pic search. | |||
||1903: Karl Gegenbaur dies ... anatomist and professor who demonstrated that the field of comparative anatomy offers important evidence supporting of the theory of evolution. From studies in embryology, he asserted that all eggs are simple cells (1861) as suggested earlier by Schwann (1838). Pic. | |||
||1910: Mathetician Fritz John born ... contributions to partial differential equations and ill-posed problems. His early work was on the Radon transform and he is remembered for John's equation. Pic. | |||
||1917: Atle Selberg born ... mathematician and academic ... known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory. Pic. | |||
||1924: James Black born ... biologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1932: Danzig crisis of 1932 was an incident between the Free City of Danzig (modern Gdańsk, Poland) and Poland concerning whether the Polish government had the right to station warships in Danzig harbour, together with Poland's claim to represent Danzig with foreign powers. The incident was sparked on 14 June 1932 when a squadron of British destroyers visited Danzig and was greeted by the Polish destroyer Wicher which had entered Danzig harbour without the permission of the Senate of the Free City. The incident led to the Danzig authorities reluctantly ceding the right of Poland to station its warships in Danzig, the renewal of the agreement governing Polish rights in the Free City and within Poland a shift towards navalism. Pic | |||
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1946: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] dies. He was one of the inventors of the mechanical television. | File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1946: Engineer and inventor [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] dies. He was one of the inventors of the mechanical television. | ||
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||1946: Federigo Enriques dies ... mathematician, now known principally as the first to give a classification of algebraic surfaces in birational geometry, and other contributions in algebraic geometry. Pic. | |||
||1949: Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space. Pic (grief). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_space | |||
||1951: UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau. | |||
||1961: K. S. Krishnan dies ... physicist. He was a co-discoverer of Raman scattering, for which his mentor C. V. Raman was awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize in Physics. Pic. | |||
||1962: The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency. | |||
||1965: Elmer Tiling Cunningham dies ... entrepreneur and businessman, specializing in vacuum tubes and radio manufacturing. He is best known for being the most successful business person to produce unlicensed counterfeit vacuum tubes. Pic tube. | |||
||1966: The Vatican announces the abolition of the ''Index Librorum Prohibitorum'' ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557. | |||
||1967: Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus. | |||
||1967: China tests its first hydrogen bomb. | |||
||1968: Asteroid 1566 Icarus ... came as close as 0.042482 AU (6,355,200 km), or 16 LD. During this approach, Icarus became the first minor planet to be observed using radar, with measurements obtained at the Haystack Observatory and the Goldstone Tracking Station. Pic. | |||
File:Jorge Luis Borges.jpg|link=Jorge Luis Borges (nonfiction)|1986: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator [[Jorge Luis Borges (nonfiction)|Jorge Luis Borges]] dies. His best-known books, ''Ficciones'' (''Fictions'') and ''El Aleph'' (''The Aleph''), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion. | |||
File:Roger Zelazny 1988.jpg|link=Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|1995: Writer [[Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Roger Zelazny]] dies. He won the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times. | File:Roger Zelazny 1988.jpg|link=Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|1995: Writer [[Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Roger Zelazny]] dies. He won the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times. | ||
File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|1995:[[The Custodian]] offers supernatural crime fighter job to deceased writer [[Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Roger Zelazny]]. | File:The Custodian.jpg|link=The Custodian|1995:[[The Custodian]] offers supernatural crime fighter job to deceased writer [[Roger Zelazny (nonfiction)|Roger Zelazny]]. | ||
||2002: Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. | |||
||2003: Edward F. Moore dies ... professor of mathematics and computer science, the inventor of the Moore finite state machine, and an early pioneer of artificial life. Pic search. | |||
||2014: María Josefa Wonenburger Planells dies ... mathematician who did research in the United States and Canada. She is known for her work on group theory. Pic. | |||
File:Self portrait (14 June 2022) 20220614_194330.jpg|link=Self portrait (14 June 2022)|2022: '''[[Self portrait (14 June 2022)|Self portrait]]'''. | |||
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Latest revision as of 16:21, 13 June 2024
1791: Polymath Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables".
1903: Mathematician and logician Alonzo Church born. He will make major contributions to mathematical logic and the foundations of theoretical computer science.
1946: Engineer and inventor John Logie Baird dies. He was one of the inventors of the mechanical television.
1986: Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator Jorge Luis Borges dies. His best-known books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), published in the 1940s, are compilations of short stories interconnected by common themes, including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion.
1995: Writer Roger Zelazny dies. He won the Nebula award three times, and the Hugo award six times.
1995:The Custodian offers supernatural crime fighter job to deceased writer Roger Zelazny.
2022: Self portrait.