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File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1678: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] publishes ''Historia Culvertica'', which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.
File:Culvert Origenes.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes|1678: Writer and philosopher [[Culvert Origenes]] publishes ''Historia Culvertica'', which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.


File:Peder Horrebow.jpg|link=Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|1679: Astronomer and mathematician [[Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|Peder Horrebow]] born. he will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
File:Peder Horrebow.jpg|link=Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|1679: Astronomer and mathematician [[Peder Horrebow (nonfiction)|Peder Horrebow]] born. Horrebow will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.
 
File:Vandal Savage solar eclipse.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1680: [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage]] uses solar eclipse to commit series of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
||1701 – William Emerson, English mathematician and academic (d. 1782)
 
||1761 – Thomas Simpson, English mathematician and academic (b. 1710)
 
||1796 – Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox inoculation.
 
||1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the Missouri River.
 
||1814 – Charles Beyer, German-English engineer, co-founded Beyer, Peacock and Company (d. 1876)
 
||1832 – Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician and academic (d. 1903)
 
||William Kingdon Clifford FRS (b. 4 May 1845) was an English mathematician and philosopher. Building on the work of Hermann Grassmann, he introduced what is now termed geometric algebra, a special case of the Clifford algebra named in his honour.
 
||1852 – Henri Julien, Canadian illustrator (d. 1908)


File:John Charles Fields.jpg|link=John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|1863: Mathematician [[John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|John Charles Fields]] born.  He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
File:John Charles Fields.jpg|link=John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|1863: Mathematician [[John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|John Charles Fields]] born.  He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.


||1878 – The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
File:Ernst Kummer.jpg|link=Ernst Kummer (nonfiction)|1893: Mathematician [[Ernst Kummer (nonfiction)|Ernst Kummer]] dies. Kummer contributed to abstract algebra; in ring theory, he introduced the term ''ideal''.


||1888 – Archie Alexander, African-American mathematician and engineer (d. 1958)
File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] born.  Christy will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.  


||1893 – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician and academic (b. 1810) Ernst Eduard Kummer (29 January 1810 – 14 May 1893) was a German mathematician. Skilled in applied mathematics, Kummer trained German army officers in ballistics
File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.


||1897 – Ed Ricketts, American biologist and ecologist (d. 1948)
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||1899 – Charlotte Auerbach, German-Jewish Scottish folklorist, geneticist, and zoologist. (d.1994)
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||Pierre Victor Auger (b. 1899) was a French physicist, born in Paris. He worked in the fields of atomic physics, nuclear physics, and cosmic ray physics.
 
||1904 – Hans Albert Einstein, Swiss-American engineer and educator (d. 1973) no pic
 
||Joseph Lade Pawsey (b. 14 May 1908) was an Australian scientist, radiophysicist and radio astronomer. Pic.
 
||William Stanley Jr. (d. May 14, 1916) was an American physicist born in Brooklyn, New York. In his career, he obtained 129 patents covering a variety of electric devices. In 1913, he patented an all-steel vacuum bottle, and formed the Stanley Bottle Company. Pic.
 
File:Robert F. Christy Los Alamos ID.png|link=Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|1916: Physicist and astrophysicist [[Robert F. Christy (nonfiction)|Robert F. Christy]] born.  He will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.
 
File:W._T._Tutte.jpg|link=W. T. Tutte|1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic [[W. T. Tutte (nonfiction)|W. T. Tutte]] born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.
 
||Yuval Ne'eman (b. 14 May 1925) was an Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. Pic.
 
||1928 – Frederik H. Kreuger, Dutch engineer, author, and academic (d. 2015) -  also a professional author of technical literature, nonfiction books, thrillers and a decisive biography of the master forger Han van Meegeren.
 
File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''.
 
||Oliver Strachey (d. 14 May 1960), a British civil servant in the Foreign Office, was a cryptographer from World War I to World War II. Pic.
 
||On May 14, 1961, the world's first nuclear ramjet engine, "Tory-IIA", mounted on a railroad car, roared to life for a few seconds.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto
||1973 – Skylab, the United States' first space station, is launched.
 
||1995 – Christian B. Anfinsen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916)
 
||Yuri Nikolaevich Denisyuk (d. May 14, 2006) a Soviet physicist, one of the founders of optical holography. He is known for his great contribution to holography, in particular for the so-called "Denisyuk hologram". Pic.
 
||Robert Bruce Merrifield (d. May 14, 2006) was an American biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1984 for the invention of solid phase peptide synthesis. Pic.
 
||2015 – Stanton J. Peale, American astrophysicist and academic (b. 1937)
 
||2016 – Darwyn Cooke, American comic book writer and artist (b. 1962)
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Latest revision as of 09:18, 8 May 2024

  • 1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.

    1678: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes publishes Historia Culvertica, which will soon be widely plagiarized, influencing a generation of humanists.

  • 1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. Horrebow will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.

    1679: Astronomer and mathematician Peder Horrebow born. Horrebow will invent a way to determine a place's latitude from the stars.

  • 1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.

    1863: Mathematician John Charles Fields born. He will found the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.

  • 1893: Mathematician Ernst Kummer dies. Kummer contributed to abstract algebra; in ring theory, he introduced the term ideal.

    1893: Mathematician Ernst Kummer dies. Kummer contributed to abstract algebra; in ring theory, he introduced the term ideal.

  • 1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. Christy will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

    1916: Physicist and astrophysicist Robert F. Christy born. Christy will be credited with the insight that a solid sub-critical mass of plutonium can be explosively compressed into supercriticality, a great simplification of earlier concepts of implosion requiring hollow shells.

  • 1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.

    1917: Mathematician, codebreaker, and academic W. T. Tutte born. During the Second World War, he will make a brilliant and fundamental advance in cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cipher, a major Nazi German cipher system.

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