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File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1561: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
File:Thomas Fincke.jpg|link=Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|1561: Mathematician and physicist [[Thomas Fincke (nonfiction)|Thomas Fincke]] born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.


||Guidobaldo del Monte (d. 6 January 1607), Marquis del Monte, was an Italian mathematician, philosopher and astronomer. Pic.
||1607: Guidobaldo del Monte, Marquis del Monte dies ... mathematician, philosopher, and astronomer. Pic.


File:Jacob Bernoulli.jpg|link=Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician [[Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Jacob Bernoulli]] born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant ''e'', and make important contributions to the field of probability.
File:Jacob Bernoulli.jpg|link=Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1655: Mathematician [[Jacob Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Jacob Bernoulli]] born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant ''e'', and make important contributions to the field of probability.


||1689 – Seth Ward, English bishop, mathematician, and astronomer (b. 1617)
||1689: Seth Ward dies ... bishop, mathematician, and astronomer.


||Francesco Maria Zanotti Cavazzoni (b. 1692) was an Italian philosopher and writer.  His 1741 essay on the 'attractive force of ideas' defended a view of the association of ideas influenced by Newtonian physics.
||1692: Francesco Maria Zanotti Cavazzoni born ... philosopher and writer.  His 1741 essay on the 'attractive force of ideas' defended a view of the association of ideas influenced by Newtonian physics.


||1721 – The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.
||1721: The Committee of Inquiry on the South Sea Bubble publishes its findings.


||1731 – Étienne François Geoffroy, French physician and chemist (b. 1672)
||1731: Étienne François Geoffroy dies ... physician and chemist.


||1745 – Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier, French co-inventor of the hot air balloon (d. 1799)
||1745: Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier born ... co-inventor of the hot air balloon.


||1795 – Anselme Payen, French chemist and academic (d. 1871)
||1795: Anselme Payen born ... chemist and academic.


||1807 – Joseph Petzval, German-Hungarian mathematician and physicist (d. 1891)
||1807: Joseph Petzval dies ... mathematician and physicist.


||Gustav Adolph Kenngott (b. January 6, 1818) was a German mineralogist.
||1818: Gustav Adolph Kenngott born ... mineralogist.


||1838 – Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).
||1838: Alfred Vail demonstrates a telegraph system using dots and dashes (this is the forerunner of Morse code).


||Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm (b. 6 January 1841) was a German mathematician. Sturm's Theorem is based on finding the complex imaginary roots of an infinite arbitrary-integer series. Pic.
||1841: Friedrich Otto Rudolf Sturm born ... mathematician. Sturm's Theorem is based on finding the complex imaginary roots of an infinite arbitrary-integer series. Pic.


||1842 – Clarence King, American geologist, mountaineer, and critic (d. 1901) Diamond Hoax
||1842: Clarence King born ... geologist, mountaineer, and critic ... Diamond Hoax.


||1852 – Louis Braille, French educator, invented Braille (b. 1809)
||1852: Louis Braille dies ... educator, invented Braille.


||1884 – Gregor Mendel, Czech geneticist and botanist (b. 1822)
||1884: Gregor Mendel dies ... geneticist and botanist.


||Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant (d. 6 January 1886) was a mechanician and mathematician who contributed to early stress analysis and also developed the unsteady open channel flow shallow water equations, also known as the Saint-Venant equations that are a fundamental set of equations used in modern hydraulic engineering. Pic.
||1886: Adhémar Jean Claude Barré de Saint-Venant dies ... mechanician and mathematician who contributed to early stress analysis and also developed the unsteady open channel flow shallow water equations, also known as the Saint-Venant equations that are a fundamental set of equations used in modern hydraulic engineering. Pic.


||1912 – German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
||1912: German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.


File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] dies.  He invented [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1918: Mathematician and philosopher [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] dies.  He invented [[Set theory (nonfiction)|set theory]], a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.


||John Maynard Smith (b. 6 January 1920) was a British theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory. Pic.
||1920: John Maynard Smith born ... theoretical and mathematical evolutionary biologist and geneticist. Maynard Smith was instrumental in the application of game theory to evolution and theorised on other problems such as the evolution of sex and signalling theory. Pic.


||Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen (d. 6 January 1920) was a Danish mathematician. He is known for work on the enumerative geometry of conic sections, algebraic surfaces, and history of mathematics.
||1920: Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen dies ... mathematician. He is known for work on the enumerative geometry of conic sections, algebraic surfaces, and history of mathematics.


||1921 – Marianne Grunberg-Manago, Russian-French biochemist and academic (d. 2013)
||1921: Marianne Grunberg-Manago born ... biochemist and academic.


||1922 – Jakob Rosanes, Ukrainian-German mathematician and chess player (b. 1842)
||1922: Jakob Rosanes dies ... mathematician and chess player.


||1927 – Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, American physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States (d. 2014)
||1927: Jesse Leonard Steinfeld born ... physician and academic, 11th Surgeon General of the United States.


||Eduard Study (d. January 6, 1930), was a German mathematician known for work on invariant theory of ternary forms (1889) and for the study of spherical trigonometry. Pic.
||1920: Eduard Study dies ... mathematician known for work on invariant theory of ternary forms (1889) and for the study of spherical trigonometry. Pic.


||1930 – W. Wallace Cleland, American biochemist and educator (d. 2013)
||1930: W. Wallace Cleland born ... biochemist and educator.


File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1931: Inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] signs his last patent application.
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1931: Inventor [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] signs his last patent application.


||1933 – Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 2003)
||1933: Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov born ... engineer and astronaut.


||1945 – Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist and chemist (b. 1863)
||1945: Vladimir Vernadsky dies ... mineralogist and chemist.


||1955 – Susan B. Horwitz, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2014)
||1955: Susan B. Horwitz born ... computer scientist and academic.


||1990 – Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1904)
||1988: Bern Dibner dies ... engineer and science historian who worked as an engineer during the electrification of Cuba. Realizing the need for improved methods of connecting electrical conductors, in 1924, he founded the Burndy Engineering Company. A few years later, he became interested in the history of Renaissance science. Subsequently, he began collecting books and everything he could find that was related to the history of science. This became a second career as a scholar that would run parallel with his life as a businessman. He wrote many books and pamphlets, on topics from the transport of ancient obelisks, to authoritative biographies of many scientific pioneers, including Alessandro Volta, inventor of the electric battery, and Wilhelm Röntgen, discoverer of the X ray. Pic.


||2000 – Don Martin, American cartoonist (b. 1931)
||1990: Pavel Cherenkov dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Thomas Greenway Stockham (d. January 6, 2004) was an American scientist who developed one of the first practical digital audio recording systems, and pioneered techniques for digital audio recording and processing as well. Pic.
||2000: Don Martin dies ... cartoonist.


||2012 – Roger Boisjoly, American aerodynamicist and engineer (b. 1938)
||2004: Thomas Greenway Stockham dies ... scientist who developed one of the first practical digital audio recording systems, and pioneered techniques for digital audio recording and processing as well. Pic.
 
||2012: Roger Boisjoly dies ... aerodynamicist and engineer.


|File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2015: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' spontaneously generates new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]].
|File:John Hoyland Lebanon.jpg|link=John Hoyland (nonfiction)|2015: [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' spontaneously generates new class of [[Gnomon algorithm]].


File:Color commentators.jpg|link=Color commentator (nonfiction)|2015: [[Color commentator (nonfiction)|Color commentators]] call [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' "colorful in a way that defies description."
|File:Color commentators.jpg|link=Color commentator (nonfiction)|2015: [[Color commentator (nonfiction)|Color commentators]] call [[John Hoyland (nonfiction)|John Hoyland's]] ''Lebanon'' "colorful in a way that defies description."
 
File:Comparison_of_bergamot_oils_using_GC-MS_analysis_with_enantiomeric_column.png|2016: Cold weather depresses [[Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)|Bergamot oil]] market, industry analysts predict spike in [[Chromatography (nonfiction)|gas chromatography]] prices.
File:Comparison_of_bergamot_oils_using_GC-MS_analysis_with_enantiomeric_column.png|2016: Cold weather depresses [[Bergamot essential oil (nonfiction)|Bergamot oil]] market, industry analysts predict spike in [[Chromatography (nonfiction)|gas chromatography]] prices.
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Revision as of 15:37, 15 August 2018

  • 1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.

    1561: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke born. He will introduce the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.

  • 1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.

    1655: Mathematician Jacob Bernoulli born. He will discover the fundamental mathematical constant e, and make important contributions to the field of probability.

  • 1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.

    1918: Mathematician and philosopher Georg Cantor dies. He invented set theory, a fundamental area of mathematical inquiry.

  • 1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.

    1931: Inventor Thomas Edison signs his last patent application.

  • 2016: Cold weather depresses Bergamot oil market, industry analysts predict spike in gas chromatography prices.

    2016: Cold weather depresses Bergamot oil market, industry analysts predict spike in gas chromatography prices.

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