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||Edward Waring FRS (d. 15 August 1798) was a British mathematician. He made the assertion known as Waring's problem without proof in his writings Meditationes Algebraicae. Pic. | ||Edward Waring FRS (d. 15 August 1798) was a British mathematician. He made the assertion known as Waring's problem without proof in his writings Meditationes Algebraicae. Pic. | ||
File:Alexey Krylov 1910s.jpg|link=Aleksey Krylov (nonfiction)|1863: Mathematician and naval engineer [[Aleksey Krylov (nonfiction)|Aleksey Krylov]] born. Fame will come to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship becomes internationally known. | |||
||1758 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (b. 1698) | ||1758 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (b. 1698). Pic. | ||
||Sir William Augustus Tilden (b. 15 August 1842) was a British chemist. He discovered that isoprene could be made from turpentine. Pic. | ||Sir William Augustus Tilden (b. 15 August 1842) was a British chemist. He discovered that isoprene could be made from turpentine. Pic. | ||
||1852 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (b. 1760) | ||1852 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (b. 1760). Pic: stamp. | ||
File:Robert Bunsen.jpg|link=Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|1888: Chemist and crime-fighter [[Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|Robert Bunsen]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on the emission spectra of heated elements which detect and prevent [[crimes against chemistry]]. | File:Robert Bunsen.jpg|link=Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|1888: Chemist and crime-fighter [[Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|Robert Bunsen]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on the emission spectra of heated elements which detect and prevent [[crimes against chemistry]]. | ||
||Elias Loomis (d. August 15, 1889) was an American mathematician. | ||Elias Loomis (d. August 15, 1889) was an American mathematician. Pic. | ||
File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|1891: Signed first edition of ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' sells for ninety thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|1891: Signed first edition of ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' sells for ninety thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1892: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] born. He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927. | File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1892: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] born. He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927. | ||
||Gerty Theresa Cori (b. August 15, 1896) was a Jewish Czech-American biochemist who became the third woman—and first American woman—to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. | ||Gerty Theresa Cori (b. August 15, 1896) was a Jewish Czech-American biochemist who became the third woman—and first American woman—to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Pic. | ||
||1901 – Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1975) | ||1901 – Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1975). Pic. | ||
||John Kerr FRS ( | ||John Kerr FRS (d. 15 August 1907) was a Scottish physicist and a pioneer in the field of electro-optics. He is best known for the discovery of what is now called the Kerr effect. Pic. | ||
||Eugene Schieffelin (d. 15 August 1906) belonged to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the New York Zoological Society. He was responsible for introducing the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) to North America. No pic. | |||
||1914 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer and art director (d. 1996) | ||1914 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer and art director (d. 1996) | ||
Revision as of 11:25, 5 May 2018
1758: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer dies. He is known as "the father of naval architecture".
1863: Mathematician and naval engineer Aleksey Krylov born. Fame will come to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship becomes internationally known.
1888: Chemist and crime-fighter Robert Bunsen publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on the emission spectra of heated elements which detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.
1891: Signed first edition of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess sells for ninety thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
1892: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie born. He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.
1946: Signed first edition of Janet Beta at ENIAC stolen from the Library of Congress.
1977: The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
2015: Author, philosopher, and crime-fighter Umberto Eco publishes influential monograph on the origins and early development of high-energy literature.