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File:Giordano Bruno crater.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (crater) (nonfiction)|1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the [[Giordano Bruno (crater) (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno crater]] being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
File:Giordano Bruno crater.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (crater) (nonfiction)|1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the [[Giordano Bruno (crater) (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno crater]] being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.
File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1563: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
File:Gentilis medicus - Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493.jpg|link=Gentile da Foligno (nonfiction)|1348: Physician and academic [[Gentile da Foligno (nonfiction)|Gentile Gentili da Foligno]] dies. Da Foligno was among the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being (1341).
 
||1650: Christoph Scheiner dies ... priest, physicist, and astronomer. Pic.
 
||1753: Chemist Claude François Geoffroy born. In 1753 he proved the chemical element bismuth to be distinct from lead, becoming the official discoverer of the element. Before this time, bismuth-containing minerals were frequently misidentified as either lead, tin, or antimony ores. No DOB. No pic online.
 
||1772: Gerard van Swieten dies ... physician and reformer. Pic.
 
||1791: Denison Olmsted born ... physicist and astronomer. Professor Olmsted is credited with giving birth to meteor science after the 1833 Leonid meteor shower over North America spurred him to study this phenomenon. Pic.
 
||1799: William Lassell born ... astronomer and merchant ... remembered for his improvements to the reflecting telescope and his ensuing discoveries of four planetary satellites. Pic.
 
||1845: Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran born ... physician and parasitologist ... won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1907 for his discoveries of parasitic protozoans as causative agents of infectious diseases such as malaria and trypanosomiasis. Following his father, Louis Théodore Laveran, he took up military medicine as profession. Pic.
 
||1858: Andrew Forsyth born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
 
||1858: Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory. Pics.
 
||1865: Physicist Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels born. He discovered that a steady electric field applied to certain birefringent materials causes the refractive index to vary, approximately in proportion to the strength of the field. This phenomenon is now called the Pockels effect. Pic search.
 
||1865: Emil Albert Knoevenagel born ... chemist who established the Knoevenagel condensation reaction. The Knoevenagel condensation reaction of benzaldehydes with nitroalkanes is a classic general method for the preparation of nitroalkenes. Pic.
 
||1867: Thaddeus Cahill born ... inventor of the early 20th century. He is widely credited with the invention of the first electromechanical musical instrument, which he dubbed the telharmonium. His idea proved to be fruitful, nearly a century later, with the advent of streaming media. Pic.
 
||1870: Édouard Le Roy born ... mathematician and philosopher. Le Roy especially interested himself to the relations between science and morality. Along with Henri Poincaré and Pierre Duhem, he supported a conventionalist thesis on the foundation of mathematics.  Pic search.
 
||1873: Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election. Pic.
 
||1877: James Montgomery Flagg born ... painter and illustrator ... Flagg created his most famous work in 1917, a poster to encourage recruitment in the United States Army during World War I. It showed Uncle Sam pointing at the viewer with the caption "I Want YOU for U.S. Army". Flagg used his own face for Uncle Sam. Pic.
 
||1905: Per Teodor Cleve dies ... chemist, biologist, mineralogist, oceanographer, and professor. He discovered the chemical elements holmium and thulium and helped isolate helium from the uranium ore cleveite. Pic.
 
||1907: Alexander Stewart Herschel dies ... astronomer. He did pioneering work in meteor spectroscopy, and worked on identifying comets as the source of meteor showers. The Herschel graph, the smallest non-Hamiltonian polyhedral graph, is named after him. Pic.
 
File:M._S._Bartlett.png|link=M. S. Bartlett (nonfiction)|1910: Statistician [[M. S. Bartlett (nonfiction)|Maurice Stevenson Bartlett]] born. Bartlett will make contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns, the theory of statistical inference, and multivariate analysis.
 
||1913: Mathematician Oswald Teichmüller born. Pic.
 
||1915: Alice T. Schafer born ... mathematician. As a teacher, Alice especially reached out to students who had difficulties with or were afraid of mathematics, by designing special classes for them.  Pic search.
 
||1918: Jerome Karle born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1918: Johann Heinrich Graf dies ... mathematician who was rector of the University of Bern and promoter of the Swiss National Library. Pic.
 
File:Jacobus Kapteyn.jpg|link=Jacobus Kapteyn (nonfiction)|1922: Astronomer and academic [[Jacobus Kapteyn (nonfiction)|Jacobus Kapteyn]] dies. Kapteyn conducted extensive studies of the Milky Way using photography and statistical methods to determine the motions and distribution of stars, discovering evidence for galactic rotation.
 
||1926: Allan Sandage born ... astronomer and cosmologist. Pic.
 
||1935: Mathematician Alexander Wilhelm von Brill born. Chasles–Cayley–Brill formula; Brill–Noether theory. Pic.
 
||1939: John E. Baldwin born ... contributed to the development of interferometry in Radio Astronomy, and later astronomical optical interferometry and lucky imaging; and made the first maps of the radio emission from the Andromeda Galaxy. Pic.
 
||1971: Paul Karrer dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... vitamins. Pic.
 
||1972: Milton La Salle Humason dies ... astronomer. He became known as a meticulous observer, obtaining photographs and difficult spectrograms of faint galaxies. His observations played a major role in the development of physical cosmology.  Pic: https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/educators/programs/cosmictimes/downloads/newsletters/1929NL_LateEd.pdf
 
File:Júlio César de Melo e Sousa.png|link=Júlio César de Mello e Souza (nonfiction)|1974: Mathematician and academic [[Júlio César de Mello e Souza (nonfiction)|Júlio César de Mello e Souza]] dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.
File:Júlio César de Melo e Sousa.png|link=Júlio César de Mello e Souza (nonfiction)|1974: Mathematician and academic [[Júlio César de Mello e Souza (nonfiction)|Júlio César de Mello e Souza]] dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.
File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|2011: [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel device]] develops self-awareness, visits [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
 
|File:Gravity Probe A.jpg|link=Gravity Probe A (nonfiction)|1976: [[Gravity Probe A (nonfiction)|Gravity Probe A]] (GP-A) launched ... a space-based experiment to test the equivalence principle, a feature of Einstein's theory of relativity. It was performed jointly by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The experiment sent a hydrogen maser, a highly accurate frequency standard, into space to measure with high precision the rate at which time passes in a weaker gravitational field. Pic uploaded.
 
||1977: Georgi Delchev Bradistilov dies ... mathematician. Pic.
 
||1979: SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
 
||1980: Kazimierz Kuratowski dies ... mathematician and logician. Pic.
 
||1982: Italian banker Roberto Calvi's body is discovered hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London, England. Pic.
 
||1983: Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space.
 
||1988: Roger Conant Lyndon dies ... mathematician, for many years a professor at the University of Michigan. He is known for Lyndon words, the Curtis–Hedlund–Lyndon theorem, Craig–Lyndon interpolation and the Lyndon–Hochschild–Serre spectral sequence. Pic: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Lyndon
 
||1989: George Claude Pimentel dies ... inventor of the chemical laser. He also developed the technique of matrix isolation in low-temperature chemistry. In theoretical chemistry, he proposed the three-center four-electron bond which is now accepted as the best simple model of hypervalent molecules. In the late 1960s, Pimentel led the University of California team that designed the infrared spectrometer for the Mars Mariner 6 and 7 missions that analyzed the surface and atmosphere of Mars. Pic search.
 
||1991: Marshall Glecker Holloway dies ... physicist who worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory during and after World War II. He was its representative, and the deputy scientific director, at the Operation Crossroads nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in July 1946. Holloway became the head of the Laboratory's W Division, responsible for new weapons development. In September 1952 he was charged with designing, building and testing a thermonuclear weapon, popularly known as a hydrogen bomb. This culminated in the Ivy Mike test in November of that year. Pic.
 
||2005: Manuel Sadosky dies ... mathematician and academic ... the father of computer science studies in Argentina. Pic search.
 
||2006: The first Kazakh space satellite, KazSat-1 is launched.
 
||2009: The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), a NASA robotic spacecraft is launched.
 
||2014: Stephanie Kwolek dies ... chemist and engineer ... Kevlar. Pic.
 
 
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Latest revision as of 19:19, 6 February 2022

  • 1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.

    1178: Five Canterbury monks see what is possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the Moon's distance from the Earth (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision.

  • 1348: Physician and academic Gentile Gentili da Foligno dies. Da Foligno was among the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being (1341).

    1348: Physician and academic Gentile Gentili da Foligno dies. Da Foligno was among the first European physicians to perform a dissection on a human being (1341).

  • 1910: Statistician Maurice Stevenson Bartlett born. Bartlett will make contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns, the theory of statistical inference, and multivariate analysis.

    1910: Statistician Maurice Stevenson Bartlett born. Bartlett will make contributions to the analysis of data with spatial and temporal patterns, the theory of statistical inference, and multivariate analysis.

  • 1922: Astronomer and academic Jacobus Kapteyn dies. Kapteyn conducted extensive studies of the Milky Way using photography and statistical methods to determine the motions and distribution of stars, discovering evidence for galactic rotation.

    1922: Astronomer and academic Jacobus Kapteyn dies. Kapteyn conducted extensive studies of the Milky Way using photography and statistical methods to determine the motions and distribution of stars, discovering evidence for galactic rotation.

  • 1974: Mathematician and academic Júlio César de Mello e Souza dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.

    1974: Mathematician and academic Júlio César de Mello e Souza dies. He is well known in Brazil and abroad by his books on recreational mathematics, most of them published under the pen names of Malba Tahan and Breno de Alencar Bianco.

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