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||485: Proclus dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic search | ||485: Proclus dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic search. | ||
File:Giovanni_Battista_Riccioli.jpg|link=Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|1598: Priest and astromomer [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Battista Riccioli]] born. He will experiment with pendulums and falling bodies, discuss arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduce the current scheme of lunar nomenclature. | File:Giovanni_Battista_Riccioli.jpg|link=Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|1598: Priest and astromomer [[Giovanni Battista Riccioli (nonfiction)|Giovanni Battista Riccioli]] born. He will experiment with pendulums and falling bodies, discuss arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduce the current scheme of lunar nomenclature. | ||
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File:Johan Carl Wilcke.jpg|link=Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|1781: Physicist [[Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|Johan Carl Wilcke]] invents an electrophorus which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to calculate the latent heat of ice. | File:Johan Carl Wilcke.jpg|link=Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|1781: Physicist [[Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|Johan Carl Wilcke]] invents an electrophorus which uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to calculate the latent heat of ice. | ||
||1790: | Benjamin Franklin|link=Benjamin Franklin (nonfiction)|1790: Inventor, publisher, and statesman [[Benjamin Franklin (nonfiction)|Benjamin Franklin]] dies. | ||
||1798: Étienne Bobillier born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search | ||1798: Étienne Bobillier born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search. | ||
||1843: Samuel Morey dies ... inventor, who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents. Pic search | ||1843: Samuel Morey dies ... inventor, who worked on early internal combustion engines and was a pioneer in steamships who accumulated a total of 20 patents. Pic search. | ||
||1863: Augustus Edward Hough Love born ... mathematician and theorist ... famous for his work on the mathematical theory of elasticity. He also worked on wave propagation and his work on the structure of the Earth in Some Problems of Geodynamics won for him the Adams prize in 1911 when he developed a mathematical model of surface waves known as Love waves. Love also contributed to the theory of tidal locking and introduced the parameters known as Love numbers, which are widely used today. These numbers are also used in problems related to the tidal deformation of the Earth due to the gravitational attraction of the Moon and Sun. Pic. | ||1863: Augustus Edward Hough Love born ... mathematician and theorist ... famous for his work on the mathematical theory of elasticity. He also worked on wave propagation and his work on the structure of the Earth in Some Problems of Geodynamics won for him the Adams prize in 1911 when he developed a mathematical model of surface waves known as Love waves. Love also contributed to the theory of tidal locking and introduced the parameters known as Love numbers, which are widely used today. These numbers are also used in problems related to the tidal deformation of the Earth due to the gravitational attraction of the Moon and Sun. Pic. | ||
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||1879: Carl Wilhelm Oseen born ... theoretical physicist in Uppsala and Director of the Nobel Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm. He formulated the fundamentals of the elasticity theory of liquid crystals (Oseen elasticity theory), as well as the Oseen equations for viscous fluid flow at small Reynolds numbers. He gave his name to the Oseen tensor and, with Horace Lamb, to the Lamb–Oseen vortex. Pic. | ||1879: Carl Wilhelm Oseen born ... theoretical physicist in Uppsala and Director of the Nobel Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stockholm. He formulated the fundamentals of the elasticity theory of liquid crystals (Oseen elasticity theory), as well as the Oseen equations for viscous fluid flow at small Reynolds numbers. He gave his name to the Oseen tensor and, with Horace Lamb, to the Lamb–Oseen vortex. Pic. | ||
||1882: George Jennings dies ... engineer and plumber, invented the Flush toilet. | ||1882: George Jennings dies ... engineer and plumber, invented the Flush toilet. No pics online. | ||
||1891: George Adamski born ... ufologist and author ... became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he claimed to have photographed spaceships from other planets, met with friendly Nordic alien Space Brothers, and to have taken flights with them to the Moon and other planets. Adamski was the first, and most famous, of the so-called contactees of the 1950s. Pic. | ||1891: George Adamski born ... ufologist and author ... became widely known in ufology circles, and to some degree in popular culture, after he claimed to have photographed spaceships from other planets, met with friendly Nordic alien Space Brothers, and to have taken flights with them to the Moon and other planets. Adamski was the first, and most famous, of the so-called contactees of the 1950s. Pic. | ||
||1895: Robert Dean Frisbie born ... American soldier and author ... travel, Polynesia. Pic search | ||1895: Robert Dean Frisbie born ... American soldier and author ... travel, Polynesia. Pic search. | ||
File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1901: Electrical engineer, physicist, and engineer [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use thermionic valves to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]]. | File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1901: Electrical engineer, physicist, and engineer [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which use thermionic valves to detect and prevent [[crimes against physical constants]]. | ||
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||1918: Friedrich Karl Johannes Thiele dies ... chemist and a prominent professor at several universities, including those in Munich and Strasbourg. He developed many laboratory techniques related to isolation of organic compounds. In 1907 he described a device for the accurate determination of melting points, since named Thiele tube after him. Pic. | ||1918: Friedrich Karl Johannes Thiele dies ... chemist and a prominent professor at several universities, including those in Munich and Strasbourg. He developed many laboratory techniques related to isolation of organic compounds. In 1907 he described a device for the accurate determination of melting points, since named Thiele tube after him. Pic. | ||
File:Kerry Wendell Thornley.jpg|link=Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|1938: Philosopher and author [[Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|Kerry Wendell Thornley]] born. | File:Kerry Wendell Thornley.jpg|link=Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|1938: Philosopher and author [[Kerry Wendell Thornley (nonfiction)|Kerry Wendell Thornley]] born. Thornley will write a manuscript, ''The Idle Warriors'', about his acquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald. | ||
||1942: Jean Baptiste Perrin dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ... for his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids, verified Albert Einstein’s explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic nature of matter (sedimentation equilibrium). Pic. | ||1942: Jean Baptiste Perrin dies ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ... for his studies of the Brownian motion of minute particles suspended in liquids, verified Albert Einstein’s explanation of this phenomenon and thereby confirmed the atomic nature of matter (sedimentation equilibrium). Pic. | ||
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||1970: Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely. | ||1970: Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely. | ||
||1974: Hugh Stott Taylor dies ... chemist primarily interested in catalysis. In 1925, in a landmark contribution to catalytic theory, Taylor suggested that a catalyzed chemical reaction is not catalysed over the entire solid surface of the catalyst but only at certain 'active sites' or centers. He also developed important methods for procuring heavy water during World War II and pioneered the use of stable isotopes in studying chemical reactions. Pic search | ||1974: Hugh Stott Taylor dies ... chemist primarily interested in catalysis. In 1925, in a landmark contribution to catalytic theory, Taylor suggested that a catalyzed chemical reaction is not catalysed over the entire solid surface of the catalyst but only at certain 'active sites' or centers. He also developed important methods for procuring heavy water during World War II and pioneered the use of stable isotopes in studying chemical reactions. Pic search. | ||
||1976: Henrik Dam dies ... biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1976: Henrik Dam dies ... biochemist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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File:Piet Hein and H.C. Andersen.jpg|link=Piet Hein (nonfiction)|1996: Mathematician, author, and poet [[Piet Hein (nonfiction)|Piet Hein]] dies. He proposed the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses subsequently became the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture. | File:Piet Hein and H.C. Andersen.jpg|link=Piet Hein (nonfiction)|1996: Mathematician, author, and poet [[Piet Hein (nonfiction)|Piet Hein]] dies. He proposed the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses subsequently became the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture. | ||
||2007: Horace Richard Crane dies ... physicist, the inventor of the Race Track Synchrotron, a recipient of President Ronald Reagan's National Medal of Science "for the first measurement of the magnetic moment and spin of free electrons and positrons". He was also noted for proving the existence of neutrinos. Pic search | ||2007: Horace Richard Crane dies ... physicist, the inventor of the Race Track Synchrotron, a recipient of President Ronald Reagan's National Medal of Science "for the first measurement of the magnetic moment and spin of free electrons and positrons". He was also noted for proving the existence of neutrinos. Pic search. | ||
||2012: Stephen James Rallis dies ... mathematician who worked on group representations, automorphic forms, the Siegel–Weil formula, and Langlands L-functions. Pic. | ||2012: Stephen James Rallis dies ... mathematician who worked on group representations, automorphic forms, the Siegel–Weil formula, and Langlands L-functions. Pic. | ||
||2012: Irving Millman dies ... virologist and microbiologist. Pic search | ||2012: Irving Millman dies ... virologist and microbiologist. Pic search. | ||
||2014: NASA's Kepler space observatory confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star. | ||2014: NASA's Kepler space observatory confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star. | ||
Revision as of 09:58, 14 April 2020
1598: Priest and astromomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli born. He will experiment with pendulums and falling bodies, discuss arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and introduce the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
1781: Physicist Johan Carl Wilcke invents an electrophorus which uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to calculate the latent heat of ice.
- Benjamin Franklin
1790: Inventor, publisher, and statesman Benjamin Franklin dies.
1901: Electrical engineer, physicist, and engineer John Ambrose Fleming publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which use thermionic valves to detect and prevent crimes against physical constants.
1915: Physicist, engineer, and alleged time-traveller Albert Einstein makes radio contact with orbital artificial intelligence AESOP.
1938: Philosopher and author Kerry Wendell Thornley born. Thornley will write a manuscript, The Idle Warriors, about his acquaintence Lee Harvey Oswald.
1961: Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
1968: Industrialist, motivational speaker, and alleged crime boss Colonel Zersetzung takes possession of a large quantity of military-grade Clandestiphrine.
1969: Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Robert F. Kennedy.
1978: Mathematician and crime-fighter Curt Meyer publishes an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem which uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect and erase the Forbidden Ratio.
1996: Mathematician, author, and poet Piet Hein dies. He proposed the use of superellipses in architecture; superellipses subsequently became the hallmark of modern Scandinavian architecture.
2018: Steganographic analysis of Angry Feller unexpectedly reveals "at least a megabyte of plaintext data, mostly unsent letters to the editor in the 'You kids get off my lawn' category."