Template:Selected anniversaries/December 26: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 29: | Line 29: | ||
||1926: Ali Javan born ... physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Pic. | ||1926: Ali Javan born ... physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Pic. | ||
||1956: Preston Tucker dies ... engineer and businessman, designed the Tucker Sedan. Pic. | |||
||1973: Harold Hotelling dies ... 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. | ||1973: Harold Hotelling dies ... 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. | ||
Revision as of 04:16, 1 February 2019
1791: Polymath Charles Babbage born. He will construct mechanical computers which anticipate the concept of programmable digital computers.
1896: Physician and physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond dies. He discovered nerve action potential, and developed experimental electrophysiology.
1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
1899: Engineer and crime-fighter Gustave Eiffel uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against physics.
2006: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal dies. He made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.
2016: Survey data reveals widespread Scrimshaw binging the day after Christmas.
2017: Steganographic analysis of Blue Foliage 2 unexpectedly reveals "at least five kilobytes" of encrypted data.