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|File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1766: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and counteract [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
|File:Giuseppe Piazzi.jpg|link=Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|1766: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer [[Giuseppe Piazzi (nonfiction)|Giuseppe Piazzi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and counteract [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1815: [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]] describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.
File:Sir Francis Ronalds.jpg|link=Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|1815: Electrical engineer and inventor [[Francis Ronalds (nonfiction)|Francis Ronalds]] describes the first battery-operated clock in the ''Philosophical Magazine''.


||1840: Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici born ... mathematician who became a professor in London. Pic.
||1840: Olaus Magnus Friedrich Erdmann Henrici born ... mathematician who became a professor in London. Pic.
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||1846: Emil Gabriel Warburg born ... physicist. He carried out research in the areas of kinetic theory of gases, electrical conductivity, gas discharges, heat radiation, ferromagnetism and photochemistry. Pic.
||1846: Emil Gabriel Warburg born ... physicist. He carried out research in the areas of kinetic theory of gases, electrical conductivity, gas discharges, heat radiation, ferromagnetism and photochemistry. Pic.


File:Hans Christian Ørsted.jpg|link=Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|1851: Physicist and chemist [[Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|Hans Christian Ørsted]] dies. He discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.
File:Hans Christian Ørsted.jpg|link=Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|1851: Physicist and chemist [[Hans Christian Ørsted (nonfiction)|Hans Christian Ørsted]] dies. Ørsted discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.


||1852: Constantin Marie Le Paige born ... mathematician. He worked on the theory of algebraic form, especially algebraic curves and surface and more particularly for his work on the construction of cubic surfaces. Pic.
||1852: Constantin Marie Le Paige born ... mathematician. He worked on the theory of algebraic form, especially algebraic curves and surface and more particularly for his work on the construction of cubic surfaces. Pic.
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||1879: Carlo Tresca born ... newspaper editor, orator, and labor organizer who was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1910s. He is remembered as a leading public opponent of fascism, Stalinism, and Mafia infiltration of the trade union movement. Pic.
||1879: Carlo Tresca born ... newspaper editor, orator, and labor organizer who was a leader of the Industrial Workers of the World during the 1910s. He is remembered as a leading public opponent of fascism, Stalinism, and Mafia infiltration of the trade union movement. Pic.


File:Walter Kohn.jpg|link=Walter Kohn (nonfiction)|1923: Theoretical physicist, theoretical chemist, and Nobel laureate [[Walter Kohn (nonfiction)|Walter Kohn]] born. He will develop density functional theory, which will make it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density.
File:Walter Kohn.jpg|link=Walter Kohn (nonfiction)|1923: Theoretical physicist, theoretical chemist, and Nobel laureate [[Walter Kohn (nonfiction)|Walter Kohn]] born. Kohn will develop density functional theory, which will make it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density.


||1925: Ernest Braun born ... physicist and academic ... scholar in technology policy and technology assessment. Pic.
||1925: Ernest Braun born ... physicist and academic ... scholar in technology policy and technology assessment. Pic.


File:Gerald Bull 1964.jpg|link=Gerald  Bull (nonfiction)|1928:  Engineer [[Gerald  Bull (nonfiction)|Gerald  Bull]] born. He will attempt to build artillery guns capable of launching satellites into orbit.
File:Gerald Bull 1964.jpg|link=Gerald  Bull (nonfiction)|1928:  Engineer [[Gerald  Bull (nonfiction)|Gerald  Bull]] born. Bull will attempt to build artillery guns capable of launching satellites into orbit.


||1930: John Alan Robinson born ... philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist. Pic.
||1930: John Alan Robinson born ... philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist. Pic.
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File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1941: ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' is "proof that [[The Eel]] is a criminal," according to [[Baron Zersetzung]].
File:The Eel Escapes Hydrolab.jpg|link=The Eel Escapes Hydrolab|1941: ''[[The Eel Escapes Hydrolab]]'' is "proof that [[The Eel]] is a criminal," according to [[Baron Zersetzung]].


File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|1943: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] born.  He will conceive and start the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.
File:Jef Raskin holding Canon Cat model.png|link=Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|1943: Computer scientist [[Jef Raskin (nonfiction)|Jef Raskin]] born.  Raskin will conceive and start the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.


||1954: Vagn Walfrid Ekman dies ... oceanographer and academic ... icebergs tend to drift not in the direction of the prevailing wind but at an angle of 20°-40° to the right. Bjerknes invited Ekman, still a student, to investigate the problem. Later, in 1905, Ekman published his theory of the Ekman spiral which explains the phenomenon in terms of the balance between frictional effects in the ocean and the Coriolis force, which arises from moving objects in a rotating environment, like planetary rotation. Pic.
||1954: Vagn Walfrid Ekman dies ... oceanographer and academic ... icebergs tend to drift not in the direction of the prevailing wind but at an angle of 20°-40° to the right. Bjerknes invited Ekman, still a student, to investigate the problem. Later, in 1905, Ekman published his theory of the Ekman spiral which explains the phenomenon in terms of the balance between frictional effects in the ocean and the Coriolis force, which arises from moving objects in a rotating environment, like planetary rotation. Pic.

Revision as of 17:46, 9 March 2020

  • 1815: Electrical engineer and inventor Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.

    1815: Electrical engineer and inventor Francis Ronalds describes the first battery-operated clock in the Philosophical Magazine.

  • 1851: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted dies. Ørsted discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.

    1851: Physicist and chemist Hans Christian Ørsted dies. Ørsted discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, which was the first connection found between electricity and magnetism.

  • 1923: Theoretical physicist, theoretical chemist, and Nobel laureate Walter Kohn born. Kohn will develop density functional theory, which will make it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density.

    1923: Theoretical physicist, theoretical chemist, and Nobel laureate Walter Kohn born. Kohn will develop density functional theory, which will make it possible to calculate quantum mechanical electronic structure by equations involving the electronic density.

  • 1928: Engineer Gerald Bull born. Bull will attempt to build artillery guns capable of launching satellites into orbit.

    1928: Engineer Gerald Bull born. Bull will attempt to build artillery guns capable of launching satellites into orbit.

  • 1941: The Eel Escapes Hydrolab is "proof that The Eel is a criminal," according to Baron Zersetzung.

    1941: The Eel Escapes Hydrolab is "proof that The Eel is a criminal," according to Baron Zersetzung.

  • 1943: Computer scientist Jef Raskin born. Raskin will conceive and start the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

    1943: Computer scientist Jef Raskin born. Raskin will conceive and start the Macintosh project for Apple in the late 1970s.

  • 1981: Biophysicist Max Delbrück dies. Delbrück helped launch the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s; his ideas stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time.

    1981: Biophysicist Max Delbrück dies. Delbrück helped launch the molecular biology research program in the late 1930s; his ideas stimulated physical scientists' interest into biology, especially as to basic research to physically explain genes, mysterious at the time.

  • 2016: Signed first edition of Red Spiral 3 used in high-energy literature experiments spontaneously develops artificial intelligence.

    2016: Signed first edition of Red Spiral 3 used in high-energy literature experiments spontaneously develops artificial intelligence.

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