Template:Selected anniversaries/December 13: Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 4: Line 4:
File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1516: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1516: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.


||1557: Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia dies ... mathematician and engineer.
||1557: Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia dies ... mathematician and engineer. Pic.


||1640: Robert Plot born ... naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Pic.
||1640: Robert Plot born ... naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Pic.


||1662: Francesco Bianchini born ... astronomer and philosopher.
||1662: Francesco Bianchini born ... astronomer and philosopher. Pic (interesting).


File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1724: Franz Aepinus born ... astronomer and philosopher.
||1724: Franz Aepinus born ... astronomer and philosopher. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Posters2/Aepinus.html


||1780: Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner born ... chemist who is best known for work that foreshadowed the periodic law for the chemical elements and inventing the first lighter, which was known as the Döbereiner's lamp. Pic.
||1780: Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner born ... chemist who is best known for work that foreshadowed the periodic law for the chemical elements and inventing the first lighter, which was known as the Döbereiner's lamp. Pic.
Line 18: Line 18:
||1783: Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin dies ... astronomer and demographer. Pic.
||1783: Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin dies ... astronomer and demographer. Pic.


||1816: Werner von Siemens born ... engineer and businessman, founded Siemens.
||1816: Werner von Siemens born ... engineer and businessman, founded Siemens. Pic.


||1848: Enrico Forlanini born ... engineer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer, known for his works on helicopters, aircraft, hydrofoils and dirigibles.
||1848: Enrico Forlanini born ... engineer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer, known for his works on helicopters, aircraft, hydrofoils and dirigibles. Pic.


||1849: Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski born ... soldier, military engineer and inventor. He is best known for the development of the pneumatic dynamite torpedo-gun. Pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund_Zalinski.jpeg
||1849: Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski born ... soldier, military engineer and inventor. He is best known for the development of the pneumatic dynamite torpedo-gun. Pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund_Zalinski.jpeg


||1867: Kristian Birkeland born ... physicist and author.
||1867: Kristian Birkeland born ... physicist and author. Pic (cool).


||1870: William Chauvenet dies ... mathematics, astronomy, navigation, and surveying who was instrumental in the establishment of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and later the second chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Pic.
||1870: William Chauvenet dies ... mathematics, astronomy, navigation, and surveying who was instrumental in the establishment of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and later the second chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Pic.


||1885: Annie Dale Biddle Andrews born ... mathematician.
||1885: Annie Dale Biddle Andrews born ... mathematician. Pic: https://ict22wildcats.weebly.com/female-mathematicians.html but see also library.


File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] born.  He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] born.  He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.


||1888: Alfred Landé born ... physicist known for his contributions to quantum theory. He is responsible for the Landé g-factor and an explanation of the Zeeman effect.
||1888: Alfred Landé born ... physicist known for his contributions to quantum theory. He is responsible for the Landé g-factor and an explanation of the Zeeman effect. Pic.


||1891: Jean Servais Stas dies ... chemist, notable for his accurate determinations of atomic weights. He had worked under the direction of Dumas, with whom he established the atomic weight of carbon. Stas worked assiduously to make more accurate measurements of other atomic weights than had ever been done before. Stas wished to prove the hypothesis of Joseph Proust, that all atoms were conglomerations of hydrogen atoms, though this could not be achieved. Stas was probably the most skillful chemical analyst of the nineteenth century. Pic.
||1891: Jean Servais Stas dies ... chemist, notable for his accurate determinations of atomic weights. He had worked under the direction of Dumas, with whom he established the atomic weight of carbon. Stas worked assiduously to make more accurate measurements of other atomic weights than had ever been done before. Stas wished to prove the hypothesis of Joseph Proust, that all atoms were conglomerations of hydrogen atoms, though this could not be achieved. Stas was probably the most skillful chemical analyst of the nineteenth century. Pic.


||1895: Ányos Jedlik dies ... physicist and engineer.
||1895: Ányos Jedlik dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.


||1897: Francesco Brioschi dies ... mathematician.
||1897: Francesco Brioschi dies ... mathematician. Pic.


||1908: Leon Bankoff born ... dentist, mathematician and Esperantist. He was responsible for the publication of some 300 top problems in the area of plane geometry, particularly Morley's trisector theorem, and the arbelos of Archimedes.[1] Among his discoveries with the arbelos was the Bankoff circle, which is equal in area to Archimedes' twin circles. Pic: http://math.fau.edu/yiu/AEG2013/BankoffCMJ.pdf
||1908: Leon Bankoff born ... dentist, mathematician and Esperantist. He was responsible for the publication of some 300 top problems in the area of plane geometry, particularly Morley's trisector theorem, and the arbelos of Archimedes.[1] Among his discoveries with the arbelos was the Bankoff circle, which is equal in area to Archimedes' twin circles. Pic: http://math.fau.edu/yiu/AEG2013/BankoffCMJ.pdf


||1908: Elizabeth Alexander born ... geologist, academic, and physicist.
||1908: Elizabeth Alexander born ... geologist, academic, and physicist. Pic.


||1911: Trygve Haavelmo born ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1911: Trygve Haavelmo born ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1919: Woldemar Voigt dies ... physicist and academic.
||1919: Woldemar Voigt dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.


||1921: Max Noether dies ... mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He has been called "one of the finest mathematicians of the nineteenth century". He was the father of Emmy Noether. Pic.
||1921: Max Noether dies ... mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He has been called "one of the finest mathematicians of the nineteenth century". He was the father of Emmy Noether. Pic.


||1921: David Gale born ... mathematician and economist. He was a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with the departments of mathematics, economics, and industrial engineering and operations research. He has contributed to the fields of mathematical economics, game theory, and convex analysis.
||1921: David Gale born ... mathematician and economist. He was a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with the departments of mathematics, economics, and industrial engineering and operations research. He has contributed to the fields of mathematical economics, game theory, and convex analysis. Pic: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1174507 Note Wikidata


||1923: Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... alive August 2018 ... philosophy of science through his writings on emergent phenomena.
||1923: Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... alive August 2018 ... philosophy of science through his writings on emergent phenomena.


||1927: Mehmet Nadir dies ... mathematician and academic.
||1927: Mehmet Nadir dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic (with daughter).


||1930: Fritz Pregl dies ... chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1930: Fritz Pregl dies ... chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1935: Victor Grignard dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1935: Victor Grignard dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1950: Abraham Wald dies ... mathematician and academic.
||1950: Abraham Wald dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1962: NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
||1962: NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
Line 66: Line 66:
||1972: Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.
||1972: Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.


||1976: Geneve Lucy Angela Shaffer dies ... realtor, lecturer and author. In 1909 she was touted by the San Francisco Call as "the first woman in the world to sail in a flying machine".
||1976: Geneve Lucy Angela Shaffer dies ... realtor, lecturer and author. In 1909 she was touted by the San Francisco Call as "the first woman in the world to sail in a flying machine". Pic.


||1997: Alexander Oppenheim born ... mathematician. In mathematics, his most notable contribution is his Oppenheim conjecture. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Oppenheim.html
||1997: Alexander Oppenheim born ... mathematician. In mathematics, his most notable contribution is his Oppenheim conjecture. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Oppenheim.html


||2004: David Wheeler dies ... computer scientist and academic.
||2004: David Wheeler dies ... computer scientist and academic. Pic.


||2007: Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom dies ... physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist. He was known for his contributions to the statistical theory of turbulence and theory of random processes. Pic.
||2007: Akiva Moiseevich Yaglom dies ... physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist. He was known for his contributions to the statistical theory of turbulence and theory of random processes. Pic.

Revision as of 18:39, 12 December 2018

Retrieved from "https://gnomonchronicles.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Selected_anniversaries/December_13&oldid=37035"