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||1796: Johann Christian Poggendorff born ... physicist and journalist. Pic. | ||1796: Johann Christian Poggendorff born ... physicist and journalist. Pic. | ||
||1800: Charles Goodyear born ... chemist and engineer. | ||1800: Charles Goodyear born ... chemist and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1816: Carl Ludwig pic ... physician and physiologist. His work as both a researcher and teacher had a major influence on the understanding, methods and apparatus used in almost all branches of physiology. Pic. | |||
File:Thomas Joannes Stieltjes.jpg|link=Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|1856: Mathematician [[Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|Thomas Joannes Stieltjes]] born. He will work on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, will be called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions." | File:Thomas Joannes Stieltjes.jpg|link=Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|1856: Mathematician [[Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (nonfiction)|Thomas Joannes Stieltjes]] born. He will work on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, will be called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions." | ||
||1860: The launch of HMS Warrior, with her combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour, renders all previous warships obsolete. | ||1860: The launch of HMS ''Warrior'', with her combination of screw propeller, iron hull and iron armour, renders all previous warships obsolete. | ||
||1861: Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1861: Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
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File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs]] born. He will be convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War. | File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs]] born. He will be convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War. | ||
||Jürgen Ehlers born ... physicist who contributed to the understanding of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Pic. | ||1929: Jürgen Ehlers born ... physicist who contributed to the understanding of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity. Pic. | ||
||1936: Lucy, Lady Houston dies ... philanthropist, political activist, and suffragette. Beginning in 1933, she published Britain's ''Saturday Review'', which was best known for its attacks on what the paper labelled the "unpatriotic" National Governments of Ramsay MacDonald and Stanley Baldwin. She has been acknowledged as an aviation pioneer, "the saviour of the Spitfire". Pic. | |||
File:Tullio Levi-civita.jpg|link=Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|1941: Mathematician and academic [[Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|Tullio Levi-Civita]] dies. He gained fame for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, and made significant contributions in other areas. | File:Tullio Levi-civita.jpg|link=Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|1941: Mathematician and academic [[Tullio Levi-Civita (nonfiction)|Tullio Levi-Civita]] dies. He gained fame for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, and made significant contributions in other areas. | ||
||1947: Richard Crandall born ... physicist and computer scientist. | ||1947: Richard Crandall born ... physicist and computer scientist. | ||
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||1991: Ronald Richter dies ... scientist who became infamous in connection with the Argentine Huemul Project and the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA). The project was intended to generate energy from nuclear fusion. Pic. | ||1991: Ronald Richter dies ... scientist who became infamous in connection with the Argentine Huemul Project and the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA). The project was intended to generate energy from nuclear fusion. Pic. | ||
||1991: Tony Strobl dies ... comics artist and animator. Link search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=tony+strobl | |||
||2004: Julius Axelrod dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||2004: Julius Axelrod dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2010: Meir "Manny" Lehman dies ... computer scientist and academic. His research contributions include the early realisation of the software evolution phenomenon and the eponymous Lehman's laws of software evolution. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=manny+lehman+computer+science | |||
||2012: Bruce Stark dies ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||2012: Bruce Stark dies ... cartoonist. Pic. | ||
Latest revision as of 16:56, 8 September 2023
1786: French Revolution: The Assembly of Notables is convened.
1856: Mathematician Thomas Joannes Stieltjes born. He will work on almost all branches of analysis, continued fractions and number theory, will be called "the father of the analytic theory of continued fractions."
1891: Mathematician Leopold Kronecker dies. His work included number theory, algebra, and logic.
1911: Physicist Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs born. He will be convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.
1941: Mathematician and academic Tullio Levi-Civita dies. He gained fame for his work on absolute differential calculus (tensor calculus) and its applications to the theory of relativity, and made significant contributions in other areas.