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|File:Achilles Ajax dice.jpg|link=Dice (nonfiction)|500BC: Achilles and Ajax play [[Dice (nonfiction)|dice]] to determine who will attend the [[Lucky Spasm Dice Academy]].
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||Francesco Maurolico (b. 16 September 1494 - 21/22 July 1575) was a mathematician and astronomer. He made contributions to the fields of geometry, optics, conics, mechanics, music, and astronomy.
||1494: Francesco Maurolico born ... mathematician and astronomer. He made contributions to the fields of geometry, optics, conics, mechanics, music, and astronomy. Pic.


|File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1530: Mathematician [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] attends [[Lucky Spasm Dice Academy]] for the first time.
||1666: Antoine Parent born ... mathematician and theorist. No pic online.


||1666 – Antoine Parent, French mathematician and theorist (d. 1716)
File:Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.jpg|link=Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|1736: Physicist and engineer [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]] dies.  He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
 
||1736: Johannes Nikolaus Tetens born ... natural philosopher whose empirical approach strongly influenced the work of Immanuel Kant, and later in his life, Tetens became interested in mathematics, especially in actuarial applications. From 1760, as a teacher of natural philosophy he wrote on diverse topics but later began the development of the field of developmental psychology in Germany. He wrote Philosophische Versuche über die menschliche Natur und ihre Entwickelung (1777) on the origin and structure of knowledge. He changed career after 1789 to the civil service during which time he pursued mathematics. As a statistician he produced an Introduction to the Calculation of Life Annuities (1785) and On the Tetens Mortality Curve (1785). Pic.
 
||1801: John Caldecott born ... East India Company commercial agent, meteorologist and astronomer who worked in the court of the Raja of Travancore at the Trivandrum Observatory. Pic: http://pazhayathu.blogspot.com/2012/05/john-caldecott-born-16-sept-1801-royal.html
 
||1803: Nicolas Baudin dies ... explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer. Pic.
 
||1846: Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr. born ... astronomer. He is best remembered for his research on what is today known as the Chandler wobble. His research on this spanned nearly three decades. Pic.
 
||1857: Harold P. Brown born ... electrical engineer and inventor known for his activism in the late 1880s against the use of alternating current for electric lighting in New York City and around the country (during the "War of Currents"). No DOD. Pic.
 
||1869: Thomas Graham dies ... chemist known for his pioneering work in dialysis and the diffusion of gases. He is regarded as one of the founders of colloid chemistry. Pic.
 
||1874: Heinrich Matthias Konen born ... physicist who specialized in spectroscopy. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?biw=1175&bih=668&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=FTCAW9PkLaufjwSgn6XoAg&q=Heinrich+Konen&oq=Heinrich+Konen&gs_l=img.3...3908464.3908464.0.3908896.1.1.0.0.0.0.290.290.2-1.1.0....0...1c.2.64.img..0.0.0....0.4KnrtIlysyg#imgrc=76oBzXZb-gljNM:
 
||1893: Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt born ... biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and discovering many of the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle and the molecular basis of muscle contraction.
 
||1915: Rita Harriet Harradence born ... biochemist who pioneered the synthesis of penicillamine and steroids, and the stereochemistry of molecules involved in the biosynthesis of cholesterol. Pic.


File:Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.jpg|link=Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|1736: Physicist and engineer [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]] dies.  He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
||1920: The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.


||1803 – Nicolas Baudin, French explorer, hydrographer, and cartographer (b. 1754)
||1921: Ursula Franklin born ... research physicist and metallurgist. Franklin is best known for her writings on the political and social effects of technology. For her, technology was much more than machines, gadgets or electronic transmitters. It was a comprehensive system that includes methods, procedures, organization, "and most of all, a mindset". She distinguished between holistic technologies used by craft workers or artisans and prescriptive ones associated with a division of labour in large-scale production.  Pic.


||Harold Pitney Brown (b. September 16, 1857) was an American electrical engineer and inventor known for his activism in the late 1880s against the use of alternating current for electric lighting in New York City and around the country (during the "War of Currents").
||1925: Alexander Friedmann born ... physicist and mathematician. Pic.


||1920 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
||1926: Robert Mortimer Ellis born - mathematician, specializing in topological dynamics. Pic search.


||1921 – Ursula Franklin, German-Canadian metallurgist (d. 2016)
||1931: E. C. George Sudarshan born ... theoretical physicist and academic. Pic.


||1925 – Alexander Friedmann, Russian physicist and mathematician (b. 1888)
||1932: Ronald Ross dies ... physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1932 – Ronald Ross, Indian-English physician and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
||1946: James Jeans dies ... physicist, astronomer, and mathematician. Pic.


||1946 – James Hopwood Jeans, English physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (b. 1877)
||1955: A Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.


||1955 – A Soviet Navy Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
||1959: The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.


File:Karl Popper.jpg|link=Karl Popper (nonfiction)|1958: Philosopher, academic, and crime-fighter [[Karl Popper (nonfiction)|Karl Popper]] publishes new theory of empirical falsification based on experimental scrutinization using [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques. Popper's theory receives accolades, influencing a generation of [[Mathematician|crime-fighting mathematicians]].  
||1970: Mauro De Mauro disappears ...Italian investigative journalist. Originally a supporter of the Fascist regime of Benito Mussolini he eventually became a journalist with the left-leaning newspaper L'Ora in Palermo. He disappeared in September 1970 and his body has not yet been found. Pic.


||1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
||1971: Agnes Meyer Driscoll dies ... cryptanalyst during both World War I and World War II. Edwin T. Layton described her as "without peer as a cryptanalyst". Pic.


File:The Eel Time-Surfing.jpg|link=The Eel Time-Surfing|1964: Signed first edition of ''[[The Eel Time-Surfing]]'' sells for two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
||1975: Johannes Gaultherus van der Corput dies ... mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He introduced the Van der Corput lemma, a technique for creating an upper bound on the measure of a set drawn from harmonic analysis, and the Van der Corput theorem on equidistribution modulo 1. Pic: https://www.ranker.com/review/johannes-van-der-corput/1298721


||Agnes Meyer Driscoll (d. September 16, 1971), known as Miss Aggie or Madame X, was an American cryptanalyst during both World War I and World War II. Edwin T. Layton described her as "without peer as a cryptanalyst".
||1984: Louis Réard dies ... engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini. DOB uncertain. See also July 5, 1946, French designer Louis Reard unveils a daring two-piece .... Pic (with bikini girl).


||1984 – Louis Réard, French engineer and fashion designer, created the bikini (b. 1897)
||1996: McGeorge Bundy dies ... American intelligence officer and diplomat. Pic.


File:Gordon Gould.jpg|link=Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|2005: Physicist and academic [[Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|Gordon Gould]] dies. He invented and named the laser.
File:Gordon Gould.jpg|link=Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|2005: Physicist and academic [[Gordon Gould (nonfiction)|Gordon Gould]] dies. He invented and named the laser.


File:Vladimir Arnold.jpg|link=Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Vladimir Arnold (nonfiction)|Vladimir Arnold]] uses the Kolmogorov–Arnold–Moser theorem to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||2016: Gabriele Amorth dies ... priest and exorcist. Pic search.
 
||2016 – Gabriele Amorth, Italian priest and exorcist (b. 1925)


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Latest revision as of 19:53, 19 March 2024

  • 1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.

    1736: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit dies. He helped lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.

  • 2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.

    2005: Physicist and academic Gordon Gould dies. He invented and named the laser.

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