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||1511 | ||1511: Michael Servetus born ... physician, cartographer, and theologian. | ||
File:Title page of the Astrolabium of Johannes Engel, printed by Johann Emerich, Venice 1494.jpg|link=Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|Johannes Engel]] dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars. | File:Title page of the Astrolabium of Johannes Engel, printed by Johann Emerich, Venice 1494.jpg|link=Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Engel (nonfiction)|Johannes Engel]] dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars. | ||
||1561 | ||1561: Adriaan van Roomen born ... priest and mathematician. | ||
||1765: Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding born. He will discover Juno. | ||1765: Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding born. He will discover Juno. | ||
||1803 | ||1803: Jacques Charles François Sturm born ... mathematician and theorist. | ||
||1838: Pierre-Dominique Bazaine dies. -scientist and engineer. | ||1838: Pierre-Dominique Bazaine dies. -scientist and engineer. | ||
||1885 | ||1885: The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England. | ||
||Harold Hotelling | ||1895: Harold Hotelling born ... mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling's T-squared distribution in statistics. Pic. | ||
||1895 | ||1895: Joseph Banks Rhine born ... botanist and parapsychologist. | ||
||Trofim Denisovich Lysenko | ||1898: Trofim Denisovich Lysenko born ... agronomist and biologist. Lysenko was a strong proponent of soft inheritance and rejected Mendelian genetics in favor of pseudoscientific ideas termed Lysenkoism. Pic. | ||
File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1901: Physicist [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". | File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1901: Physicist [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". | ||
||1913 | ||1913: Rudolf Diesel dies ... engineer, invented the diesel engine. | ||
|| | ||19281: Ernst Steinitz dies ... mathematician. Pic: https://ztfnews.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/%EF%BB%BFernst-steinitz%EF%BB%BF-1871-1928/ | ||
||1954 | ||1931: James Cronin born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1954: The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed. | |||
File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1957: Industrialist and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] authorizes the [[Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)]]. | File:Baron Zersetzung.jpg|link=Baron Zersetzung|1957: Industrialist and alleged crime boss [[Baron Zersetzung]] authorizes the [[Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)]]. | ||
Revision as of 21:17, 25 August 2018
1512: Doctor, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Engel dies. He published numerous almanacs, planetary tables, and calendars.
1901: Physicist Enrico Fermi born. He will be called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1957: Industrialist and alleged crime boss Baron Zersetzung authorizes the Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
1957: Twenty MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. See Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction).
1957: Investor and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde tell resporters that he "had nothing to do with the Kyshtym disaster (nonfiction)."