Template:Selected anniversaries/July 10: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 17: | Line 17: | ||
||1902: Kurt Alder born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry shared with Otto Diels for their work on what is now known as the Diels–Alder reaction. Pic. | ||1902: Kurt Alder born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... the 1950 Nobel Prize in Chemistry shared with Otto Diels for their work on what is now known as the Diels–Alder reaction. Pic. | ||
||1910: Johann Gottfried Galle dies ... astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at. Urbain Le Verrier had predicted the existence and position of Neptune, and sent the coordinates to Galle, asking him to verify | ||1910: Johann Gottfried Galle dies ... astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at. Urbain Le Verrier had predicted the existence and position of Neptune, and sent the coordinates to Galle, asking him to verify. | ||
||1914: Bonnie Madison Stewart | ||1912: Duško Popov born ... double agent who served as part of the MI6 and Abwehr during World War II, and passed off disinformation to Germany as part of the Double-Cross System. Pic. | ||
||1914: Bonnie Madison Stewart born ... mathematician and academic. He will publish (1954) a complete characterization of the practical numbers in terms of their factorizations; later, he will be the namesake of Stewart toroids. No pic, but seek book cover. | |||
||1920: Owen Chamberlain born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1920: Owen Chamberlain born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
Revision as of 05:57, 14 April 2019
1856: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla born. He will make pioneering contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
1938: Mathematician and theorist Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn uses combinatorics, logic, and Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and reverse crimes against mathematical constants.
1962: Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.
2017: Signed first edition of Albert Einstein and Alice Beta Conducting Research sells for ten millions dollars at a charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.
2018: Signed first edition of Golden Spiral is stolen from the Walker Art Museum in New Minneapolis, Canada by criminal artificial intelligence Gnotilus.