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File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] makes cameo appearance in ''[[Dard Hunter Versus the Shape Thief]]''. | ||1515: Johann Weyer born ... physician ... Demonologist. | ||
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File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1548: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] born. He will be burned at the stake (17 February 1600). | |||
||1561: Thomas Walsingham born ... English spymaster. | |||
File:Johann Bernoulli.jpg|link=|1748: Mathematician [[Johann Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Johann Bernouli]] dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus. | |||
||1769: Jane Marcet born ... science writer. | |||
||1796: Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde dies ... mathematician, musician and chemist who worked with Bézout and Lavoisier; his name is now principally associated with determinant theory in mathematics. Pic: http://serge.mehl.free.fr/chrono/Vandermonde.html | |||
File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1891: Astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] discovered a "stellar object" that moved against the background of stars. At first he thought it was a fixed star, but once he noticed that it moved, he became convinced it was a planet, or as he called it, "a new star", now known as the dwarf planet Ceres. | |||
||1803: Guglielmo Libri Carucci dalla Sommaja born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | |||
||1806: Lionel Kieseritzky born ... chess player. | |||
||1808: The United States bans the importation of slaves. | |||
||1817: Martin Heinrich Klaproth dies ... chemist and academic ... discovered uranium (1789), zirconium (1789), and cerium (1803), and named titanium (1795) and tellurium (1798). Pic. | |||
||1852: John George Children dies ... chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist. He invented a method to extract silver from ore without the need for mercury. Pic. | |||
||1852: Eugène-Anatole Demarçay born ... chemist. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Dumas. During an experiment, an explosion destroyed the sight in one of his eyes. He isolated the element europium in 1896; in 1898 he used his skills of spectroscopy to help Marie Curie confirm that she had discovered the element radium. Pic. | |||
||1854: James George Frazer born ... anthropologist and academic. Pic. | |||
||1859: Michael Joseph Owens born ... inventor. | |||
||1862: Mikhail Ostrogradsky dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | |||
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada). | |||
||1867: Mary Acworth Evershed born ... astronomer and Dante scholar. Pic search iffy. | |||
||1870: Hermann Theodor Simon born ... physicist. With Eduard Riecke, he was editor of the physics journal ''Physikalische Zeitschrift''. Pic. | |||
||1873: Mariano Azuela dies ... physician and author ... best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. He is the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," and he influenced other Mexican novelists of social protest. Pic. | |||
||1874: Gustave Whitehead born ... pilot and engineer. Pic. | |||
File:Agner Krarup Erlang.jpg|link=Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|1878: Mathematician and engineer [[Agner Krarup Erlang (nonfiction)|Agner Krarup Erlang]] born. He will invent the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis. | |||
||1879: Albert Taylor born ... electrical engineer who made important early contributions to the development of radar. Pic. | |||
||1885: Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones) | |||
||1888: John Garand born ... engineer, designed the M1 Garand rifle. Pic. | |||
||1891: Antonio Stoppani born ... geologist and scholar. Pic. | |||
||1895: J. Edgar Hoover born. Pic. | |||
File:Satyendra Nath Bose 1925.jpg|link=Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic [[Satyendra Nath Bose (nonfiction)|Satyendra Nath Bose]] born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate. | |||
||1894: Heinrich Hertz dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | |||
||1905: Stanisław Mazur born ... mathematician and theorist ... made important contributions to geometrical methods in linear and nonlinear functional analysis and to the study of Banach algebras. He was also interested in summability theory, infinite games and computable functions. Pic. | |||
||1912: Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko born ... mathematician and historian ... known for his work with Kolmogorov, and his contributions to the study of probability theory, particularly extreme value theory, with such results as the Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko theorem. Pic search. | |||
||1913: Karl Stein born ... mathematician. He is well known for complex analysis and cryptography. Stein manifolds and Stein factorization are named after him. Pic. | |||
||1920: Heinz Zemanek dies ... computer scientist and academic ... computer pioneer who led the development, from 1954 to 1958, of one of the first complete transistorized computers on the European continent. Pic | |||
||1923: Mathematician and academic Alexander Abian born. Abian gained a degree of international notoriety for his claim that blowing up the Moon would solve virtually every problem of human existence, stating that a Moonless Earth wouldn't wobble, eliminating both the seasons and its associated events like heat waves, snowstorms and hurricanes. Pic: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Abian_alex.jpg | |||
||1923: Milton "Bags" Jackson born ... jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms. He is especially remembered for his cool swinging solos as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his penchant for collaborating with several hard bop and post-bop players. | |||
||1923: Daniel Gorenstein born ... mathematician. He was a major influence on the classification of finite simple groups. Pic. | |||
||1931: Martinus Beijerinck dies ... microbiologist and botanist. | |||
||1933: Henry Harrison Chase Dunwoody dies. Known in his own time for his work with the Army’s Weather Bureau, Dunwoody invented the carborundum radio detector in 1906. It was the first practical mineral radio wave detector and the first commercial semiconductor device. Pic. | |||
|File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] makes cameo appearance in ''[[Dard Hunter Versus the Shape Thief]]''. | |||
||1947: Walter Kaufmann dies ... physicist. He is best known for the first experimental proof of the velocity dependence of mass, which was an important contribution to the development of modern physics, including special relativity. Pic. | |||
||1951: Frank Scott Hogg dies ... astronomer and academic, pioneered in the study of spectrophotometry of stars and of spectra of comets. Pic search. | |||
||1955: Shanti Swaroop Bhatnagar dies ... chemist and academic. Pic: postage stamp. | |||
||1971: Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television. | |||
||1983: The ARPANET officially changes to using the Internet Protocol, creating the Internet. | |||
||1989: The Montreal Protocol comes into force, stopping the use of chemicals contributing to ozone depletion. | |||
File:Commodore Grace M. Hopper, USN.jpg|link=Grace Hopper (nonfiction)|1992: Computer scientist and Admiral [[Grace Hopper (nonfiction)|Grace Hopper]] dies. She pioneered computer programming techniques, inventing one of the first compilers, and popularizing machine-independent programming languages (leading to the development of COBOL). | |||
||1995: The Draupner wave in the North Sea in Norway is detected, confirming the existence of freak waves. | |||
||1995: Eugene Wigner dies ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. | |||
||1996: Gertrude Blanch dies ... mathematician ... did pioneering work in numerical analysis and computation. She was a leader of the Mathematical Tables Project in New York from its beginning. She worked later as the assistant director and leader of the Numerical Analysis at UCLA computing division and was head of mathematical research for the Aerospace Research Laboratory at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Pic. | |||
||1996: Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph dies ... rocket engineer who was a leader of the effort to develop the V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany. After the war, the United States Government's Office of Strategic Services (OSS) brought him to the U.S. as part of the clandestine Operation Paperclip, where he became one of the main developers of the U.S. space program. He worked within the U.S. Army and NASA, where he managed the development of several systems, including the Pershing missile and the Saturn V Moon rocket. Pic. | |||
||2007: Leon Davidson dies ... chemist and engineer (b. 1922) | |||
||2007: Roland Levinsky dies ... biochemist and academic. | |||
||2016: John Coleman Moore dies ... mathematician. The Borel−Moore homology and Eilenberg–Moore spectral sequence are named after him. Pic: https://www.math.princeton.edu/people/john-c-moore | |||
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Latest revision as of 09:48, 1 July 2024
1548: Dominican friar, philosopher, mathematician, poet, and cosmological theorist Giordano Bruno born. He will be burned at the stake (17 February 1600).
1748: Mathematician Johann Bernouli dies. He made important contributions to infinitesimal calculus.
1891: Astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered a "stellar object" that moved against the background of stars. At first he thought it was a fixed star, but once he noticed that it moved, he became convinced it was a planet, or as he called it, "a new star", now known as the dwarf planet Ceres.
1862: Engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming is appointed to the rank of Captain in the 10th Battalion Volunteer Rifles of Canada (later known as the Royal Regiment of Canada).
1878: Mathematician and engineer Agner Krarup Erlang born. He will invent the fields of traffic engineering, queueing theory, and telephone networks analysis.
1894: Physicist, mathematician, and academic Satyendra Nath Bose born. His work on quantum mechanics will provide the foundation for Bose–Einstein statistics and the theory of the Bose–Einstein condensate.
1992: Computer scientist and Admiral Grace Hopper dies. She pioneered computer programming techniques, inventing one of the first compilers, and popularizing machine-independent programming languages (leading to the development of COBOL).