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||1858: Donati's comet (discovered by Giovanni Donati, 1826-1873) became the first to be photographed. It was a bright comet that developed a spectacular curved dust tail with two thin gas tails, captured by an English commercial photographer, William Usherwood, using a portrait camera at a low focal ratio. | ||1858: Donati's comet (discovered by Giovanni Donati, 1826-1873) became the first to be photographed. It was a bright comet that developed a spectacular curved dust tail with two thin gas tails, captured by an English commercial photographer, William Usherwood, using a portrait camera at a low focal ratio. | ||
||1859: Carl Ritter born ... geographer and academic ... one of the founders of modern geography. Pic. | |||
||1860: Paul Ulrich Villard born ... chemist and physicist. Pic. | ||1860: Paul Ulrich Villard born ... chemist and physicist. Pic. | ||
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File:Florence Violet McKenzie in WESC uniform.jpg|link=Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|1890 (or 1892): Electrical engineer [[Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|Florence Violet McKenzie]] born. She will be was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women. | File:Florence Violet McKenzie in WESC uniform.jpg|link=Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|1890 (or 1892): Electrical engineer [[Florence Violet McKenzie (nonfiction)|Florence Violet McKenzie]] born. She will be was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women. | ||
||1895: Louis Pasteur dies ... chemist and microbiologist ... renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. | ||1895: Louis Pasteur dies ... chemist and microbiologist ... renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. Pic. | ||
||1900: Warren Perry Mason born ... electrical engineer and physicist working at Bell Labs. He founded the field of distributed element circuits; was the first to experimentally show viscoelasticity in individual molecules; found experimental evidence of electron-phonon coupling in solids; and made measurements that aided the theories of phonon drag and superconductivity. Pic. | ||1900: Warren Perry Mason born ... electrical engineer and physicist working at Bell Labs. He founded the field of distributed element circuits; was the first to experimentally show viscoelasticity in individual molecules; found experimental evidence of electron-phonon coupling in solids; and made measurements that aided the theories of phonon drag and superconductivity. Pic. | ||
||1901: Kurt Otto Friedrichs dies ... mathematician. | ||1901: Kurt Otto Friedrichs dies ... mathematician. His greatest contribution to applied mathematics was his work on partial differential equations. Pic. | ||
||1907: Yevgeny Zavoisky born ... physicist known for discovery of electron paramagnetic resonance in 1944.[1][2] He likely observed nuclear magnetic resonance in 1941, well before Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell, but dismissed the results as not reproducible. Zavoisky is also credited with design of luminescence camera for detection of nuclear processes in 1952 and discovery of magneto-acoustic resonance in plasma in 1958. Pic. | ||1907: Yevgeny Zavoisky born ... physicist known for discovery of electron paramagnetic resonance in 1944.[1][2] He likely observed nuclear magnetic resonance in 1941, well before Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell, but dismissed the results as not reproducible. Zavoisky is also credited with design of luminescence camera for detection of nuclear processes in 1952 and discovery of magneto-acoustic resonance in plasma in 1958. Pic. | ||
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1494: Doctor, astronomer, and crime-fighter Johannes Engel publishes an almanac which uses Gnomon algorithm functions to predict crimes against astronomical constants with unprecedented accuracy.
1605: Mathematician and astronomer Ismaël Bullialdus born. He will be an active member of the Republic of Letters, and an early defender of the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo.
1890 (or 1892): Electrical engineer Florence Violet McKenzie born. She will be was Australia's first female electrical engineer, founder of the Women's Emergency Signalling Corps (WESC), and lifelong promoter for technical education for women.
1916: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon arrives during a chemical warfare attack in western Europe, sets up emergency field hospital.
1925: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal born. He will make fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.
1953: Astronomer and cosmologist Edwin Hubble dies. He discovered the fact that the Andromeda "nebula" is actually another island galaxy far outside of our own Milky Way.
2016: Blue Green Blossom voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.