Template:Selected anniversaries/August 31: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 10:38, 18 March 2018

1648: Mathematician, theologian, and philosopher Marin Mersenne dies. He is remembered as the "father of acoustics".
1649: Architect Inigo Jones uses Vitruvian rules of proportion and symmetry to design buildings which are resistant to crimes against mathematical constants.
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. He was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
2017: Signed first edition of The Eel Discovers Time Travel sells for two and a half million dollars."

@@ Line 40: / Line 40: @@
 ||1920 – The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit.
+||Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt (b. 31 August 1920) was a German physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. Wundt, who noted psychology as a science apart from philosophy and biology, was the first person ever to call himself a psychologist. He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology." Pic.
 ||Albert Heim (d. 31 August 1937) was a Swiss geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz. Pic.