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File:Oronce Finé.jpg|link=Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|1494: Mathematician and cartographer [[Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|Oronce Finé]] born. He will be imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]]. | File:Oronce Finé.jpg|link=Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|1494: Mathematician and cartographer [[Oronce Finé (nonfiction)|Oronce Finé]] born. He will be imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]]. | ||
File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1494: ''[[Brainiac Explains]]'' lecture series denounces [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]] as "irrational." | |||
File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1757: [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] | |File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1494: ''[[Brainiac Explains]]'' lecture series denounces [[Judicial astrology (nonfiction)|judicial astrology]] as "irrational." | ||
||1590 – Ambroise Paré, French physician and surgeon (b. 1510) | |||
||1641 – Urban Hjärne, Swedish chemist, geologist, and physician (d. 1724) | |||
||1658 – Jean Jannon, French designer and typefounder (b. 1580) | |||
||1740 – Arthur Lee, American physician and diplomat (d. 1792) | |||
File:A la mémoire de J.M. Jacquard.jpg|link=Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|1757: [[Joseph Marie Jacquard (nonfiction)|Joseph Marie Jacquard]] uses punched-card technology to compute and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1809: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to generate [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]]. | File:Antoine Becquerel.jpg|link=Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|1809: Physicist and academic [[Antoine César Becquerel (nonfiction)|Antoine César Becquerel]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to generate [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]]. | ||
||Johann Christian Martin Bartels ( | |||
||Johann Christian Martin Bartels (b. 20 December [O.S. 7 December] 1836) was a German mathematician. He was the tutor of Carl Friedrich Gauss in Brunswick and the educator of Lobachevsky at the University of Kazan. | |||
||1860 – South Carolina becomes the first state to attempt to secede from the United States. | |||
||1862 – Robert Knox, Scottish surgeon and zoologist (b. 1791) | |||
||1890 – Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967) | |||
File:Robert J. Van de Graaff.jpg|link=Robert J. Van de Graaff (nonfiction)|1901: Physicist [[Robert J. Van de Graaff (nonfiction)|Robert J. Van de Graaff]] born. He will design design and construct high-voltage Van de Graaff generators. | File:Robert J. Van de Graaff.jpg|link=Robert J. Van de Graaff (nonfiction)|1901: Physicist [[Robert J. Van de Graaff (nonfiction)|Robert J. Van de Graaff]] born. He will design design and construct high-voltage Van de Graaff generators. | ||
File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1921: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms. | |||
||1917 – Cheka, the first Soviet secret police force, is founded. | |||
||1917 – David Bohm, American-English physicist, neuropsychologist, and philosopher (d. 1992) | |||
|File:Euclid's algorithm.svg|link=Algorithm (nonfiction)|1921: Council of [[Algorithm (nonfiction)|algorithms]] announces plans to fund and build a Museum of Algorithms. | |||
File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|1922: [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] prevents [[crime against mathematical constants]]. | File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|1922: [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] prevents [[crime against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1951: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs. | File:EBR-I powers four light bulbs.jpg|link=Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|1951: The [[Experimental Breeder Reactor I (nonfiction)|EBR-1]] in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs. | ||
File:Emil Artin.jpg|link=Emil Artin (nonfiction)|1962: Mathematician [[Emil Artin (nonfiction)|Emil Artin]] dies. He worked on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields. | File:Emil Artin.jpg|link=Emil Artin (nonfiction)|1962: Mathematician [[Emil Artin (nonfiction)|Emil Artin]] dies. He worked on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields. | ||
||1971 – The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders is founded by Bernard Kouchner and a group of journalists in Paris, France. | |||
||1993 – W. Edwards Deming, American statistician, author, and academic (b. 1900) | |||
||1996 – Carl Sagan, American astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (b. 1934) | |||
||1998 – Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, English physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) | |||
||2005 – Raoul Bott, Hungarian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1923) | |||
||2013 – China successfully launches the Bolivian Túpac Katari 1 from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. | |||
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Revision as of 13:09, 22 October 2017
1494: Mathematician and cartographer Oronce Finé born. He will be imprisoned in 1524, probably for practicing judicial astrology.
1757: Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punched-card technology to compute and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1809: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel uses Gnomon algorithm to generate electricity.
1901: Physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff born. He will design design and construct high-voltage Van de Graaff generators.
1922: Hilbert curve prevents crime against mathematical constants.
1951: The EBR-1 in Arco, Idaho becomes the first nuclear power plant to generate electricity. The electricity powered four light bulbs.
1962: Mathematician Emil Artin dies. He worked on algebraic number theory, contributing to class field theory and a new construction of L-functions. He also contributed to the pure theories of rings, groups and fields.