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|| *** PAREIDOLIA: Arab thinkers *** | |||
||699: En no Ozuno, a Japanese mystic and apothecary who will later be regarded as the founder of a folk religion Shugendō, is banished to Izu Ōshima. Pic: statue. | |||
||1274: Nasir al-Din al-Tusi dies ... scientist and writer. Pics: postage stamps, observatory. | |||
File:Nasir_al-Din_al-Tusi_at_observatory.jpg|link=Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (nonfiction)|1274: Polymath [[Nasir al-Din al-Tusi (nonfiction)|Nasir al-Din al-Tusi]] dies. Tusi was a mathematician, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian; he established trigonometry as a mathematical discipline in its own right. | |||
||1541: Francisco Pizarro is assassinated in Lima by the son of his former companion and later antagonist, Diego de Almagro the younger. Almagro is later caught and executed. No DOB. Pic. | |||
||1694: Georg Brandt born ... chemist and mineralogist. Pic search. | |||
File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1730: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]] born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects". | |||
||1749: John Stevens born ... lawyer, engineer, and inventor who constructed the first U.S. steam locomotive, first steam-powered ferry, and first U.S. commercial ferry service from his estate in Hoboken. He was influential in the creation of U.S. patent law. Pic. | |||
File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins. | File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins. | ||
||1810: Joseph-Michel Montgolfier dies ... inventor, co-invented the hot air balloon. Pic. | |||
File:Lord Kelvin by Hubert von Herkomer.jpg|link=William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|1824: [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form. | File:Lord Kelvin by Hubert von Herkomer.jpg|link=William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|1824: [[William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (nonfiction)|Lord Kelvin]] born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form. | ||
File: | ||1834: Gilbert Blane dies ... physician who, when head of the Navy Medical Board, required (1795) a diet including lemon juice on navy vessels, which virtually eliminated scurvy and its significant lost manpower due to sickness of sailors. The value of citrus juice had been established by James Lind, with his Treatice on Scurvy (1754). Blane also improved sanitary conditions in the Navy by providing supplies of soap and medicines, and was involved with designing rules that were precursors to modern quarantine conditions. He required every surgeon in the service to make regular returns or journals of the state of health and disease onboard their ship. In 1829, he established a prize medal as an incentive for the surgeon producing the best journal. Pic. | ||
||1877: Giovanni Santini dies ... astronomer and mathematician. Both as a practical and theoretical astronomer, Santini made the Observatory of Padua famous. He determined the latitude of Padua, and assisted the astronomical and geodetic service of Italy by making observations in longitude. He acquired his greatest repute by his calculations of the orbital disturbances during the period from 1832-1852 caused by the great planets on the comet of Biela. Pic: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Santini | |||
||1878: Leopold Löwenheim born ... mathematician and logician. Pic search. | |||
||1883: Edward Sabine dies ... astronomer, geophysicist, ornithologist, explorer, soldier ... Sabine led the effort to establish a system of magnetic observatories in various parts of British territory all over the globe, and much of his life was devoted to their direction, and to analyzing their observations. Pic. | |||
||1886: Chemist Henri Moissan reports that he was able to successfully isolate elemental fluorine, for which he later won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic. | |||
||1888: Paul Niggli born ... crystallographer who was a leader in the field of X-ray crystallography. Pic search. | |||
||1904: Frank Scott Hogg born ... astronomer and academic, pioneered in the study of spectrophotometry of stars and of spectra of comets. Pic search. | |||
||1909: The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity. | |||
||1911: Bronisław Żurakowski born ... pilot and engineer. Pic. | |||
||1911: Frederic Calland Williams born ... co-inventor of the Williams-Kilborn tube, used for memory in early computer systems. Pic search. | |||
||1911: Ernst Witt born ... mathematician, one of the leading algebraists of his time. Pic. | |||
File:Maurice Vincent Wilkes.jpg|link=Maurice Wilkes (nonfiction)|1913: Computer scientist and physicist [[Maurice Wilkes (nonfiction)|Maurice Wilkes]] born. He will pioneer several important developments in computing, including microcode, symbolic labels, macros, subroutine libraries, and timesharing. | |||
||1914: Lyman Strong Spitzer, Jr. born ... theoretical physicist, astronomer and mountaineer. As a scientist, he carried out research into star formation, plasma physics, and in 1946, conceived the idea of telescopes operating in outer space. Spitzer invented the stellarator plasma device. Pic. | |||
||1915: Paul Castellano born ... gangster. | |||
||1919: Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm dies .... mathematician. Sturm's Theorem is based on finding the complex imaginary roots of an infinite arbitrary-integer series. Pic. | |||
||1919: Mikhail Semyonovich Tsvet dies ... botanist who invented chromatography. His last name is Russian for both "color" and " flowering ." Pic. | |||
||1921: Verner Emil Hoggatt Jr. born ... mathematician, known mostly for his work in Fibonacci numbers and number theory. Pic: http://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/bstud/hoggatt.html | |||
||1921: Violette Szabo born ... secret agent. | |||
||1931: Baron Yamakawa Kenjirō dies ... Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who went on to become a noted physicist, university president, and author of several histories of the Boshin War. Pic. | |||
||1932: Adelaide Ames dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic search. | |||
||1936: Initial flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first practical helicopter. | |||
||1937: Robert Coleman Richardson born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1943: Karl Landsteiner dies ... biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1944: World War II: San Marino, a neutral state, is mistakenly bombed by the RAF based on faulty information, leading to 35 civilian deaths. | |||
||1946: Béla Kerékjártó dies ... mathematician who wrote numerous articles on topology. In 1921 he introduced his program with a talk "On topological fundamentals of analysis and geometry" where he advocated that "complex analysis should be built with instruments of topology without metric elements such as length and area." Pic. | |||
||1946: Candace Pert born ... neuroscientist and pharmacologist. | |||
||1948: William Shockley files the original patent for the grown-junction transistor, the first bipolar junction transistor. | |||
||1951: George Udny Yule dies ... statistician. He will make important contributions to the theory and practice of correlation, regression, and association, as well as to time series analysis. He pioneered the use of preferential attachment stochastic processes to explain the origin of power law distribution. The Yule distribution, a discrete power law, is named after him. Pic. | |||
||1955: Engelbert Zaschka born ... engineer ... helicopter, muscle-powered flight. Pic (cool). | |||
||1959: Grigorii Mikhailovich Fichtenholz dies ... mathematician working on real analysis and functional analysis. Fichtenholz was one of the founders of the Leningrad school of real analysis. Pic. | |||
||1963: Morgan Ward dies mathematician and academic. Ward's research interests included the study of recurrence relations and the divisibility properties of their solutions, diophantine equations including Euler's sum of powers conjecture and equations between monomials, abstract algebra, lattice theory and residuated lattices, functional equations and functional iteration, and numerical analysis. Obit: https://www.fq.math.ca/Scanned/1-3/obit-ward.pdf Birth date unknown. Pic: http://www.pma.caltech.edu/content/morgan-ward-prize | |||
||1974: The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio. | |||
||1975: Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial. | |||
||1990: Hans Wilhelm Eduard Schwerdtfeger dies ... mathematician who worked in Galois theory, matrix theory, theory of groups and their geometries, and complex analysis. Pic. | |||
||1997: Robert Wertheimer Frucht dies ... mathematician; his research specialty was graph theory and the symmetries of graphs. He is known for Frucht's theorem, the result that every group can be realized as the group of symmetries of an undirected graph, and for the Frucht graph, one of the two smallest cubic graphs without any nontrivial symmetries. Pic = Frucht's graph. | |||
||1990: J. C. R. Licklider dies ... computer scientist and psychologist. He has been called "computing's Johnny Appleseed", for planting the seeds of computing in the digital age. Pic. | |||
||2000: The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence. | |||
||2003: The Helios Prototype breaks up and falls into the Pacific Ocean about ten miles (16 km) west of the Hawaiian Island Kauai during a remotely piloted systems checkout flight in preparation for an endurance test scheduled for the following month. | |||
| | ||2011: Österplana 065 discovered ... an Ordovician fossil meteorite found in the Thorsberg quarry in Sweden. Österplana 065 is believed to have originated from a larger asteroid, and belongs to a meteorite type that does not presently fall on the Earth. Pic. | ||
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Latest revision as of 18:45, 26 June 2024
1274: Polymath Nasir al-Din al-Tusi dies. Tusi was a mathematician, architect, philosopher, physician, scientist, and theologian; he established trigonometry as a mathematical discipline in its own right.
1730: Astronomer Charles Messier born. He will publish an astronomical catalogue consisting of nebulae and star clusters that will come to be known as the 110 "Messier objects".
1796: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor David Rittenhouse dies. He was the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
1824: Lord Kelvin born. He will do much to unify the emerging discipline of physics in its modern form.
1913: Computer scientist and physicist Maurice Wilkes born. He will pioneer several important developments in computing, including microcode, symbolic labels, macros, subroutine libraries, and timesharing.
2020: Accidental self portrait @ 8:28 pm.