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||1717 – Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier, French botanist and physicist (d. 1799)
||1717: Louis-Guillaume Le Monnier born ... botanist and physicist. No pic online.


||Alexis Bouvard (b. 27 June 1767) was a French astronomer. He is particularly noted for his careful observations of the irregularities in the motion of Uranus and his hypothesis of the existence of an eighth planet in the solar system. Pic.
||1767: Alexis Bouvard born ... astronomer. He is particularly noted for his careful observations of the irregularities in the motion of Uranus and his hypothesis of the existence of an eighth planet in the solar system. Pic.


||Augustus De Morgan (b. 27 June 1806) was a British mathematician and logician. He formulated De Morgan's laws and introduced the term mathematical induction, making its idea rigorous.
File:Augustus_De_Morgan.jpg|link=Augustus De Morgan (nonfiction)|1806: Mathematician and academic [[Augustus De Morgan (nonfiction)|Augustus De Morgan]] born. De Morgan will formulate two laws, now De Morgan's Laws, pertaining to mathematical induction: (1) the negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations; (2) the negation of a conjunction is the disjunction of the negations.


||1829 – James Smithson, English chemist and mineralogist (b. 1765)
||1829: James Smithson born ... chemist and mineralogist.


File:Sophie Germain.jpg|link=Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|Sophie Germain]] dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.
File:Sophie Germain.jpg|link=Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Sophie Germain (nonfiction)|Sophie Germain]] dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.


||1838 – Paul Mauser, German weapon designer, designed the Gewehr 98 (d. 1914)
||1838: Paul Mauser born ... weapon designer, designed the Gewehr 98.


||1850 – Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician and academic (d. 1919)
||1839: George Mary Searle born ... astronomer and Catholic priest. Pic.


||1872 – Heber Doust Curtis, American astronomer (d. 1942)
||1850: Jørgen Pedersen Gram born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
 
||1872: Heber Doust Curtis born ... astronomer.
 
||1876: Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg dies ... naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopist, was one of the most famous and productive scientists of his time. Ehrenberg was an evangelist. Pic.


File:Carl Wilhelm Borchardt.jpg|link=Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|1880: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|Carl Wilhelm Borchardt]] dies. He contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.  
File:Carl Wilhelm Borchardt.jpg|link=Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|1880: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Wilhelm Borchardt (nonfiction)|Carl Wilhelm Borchardt]] dies. He contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.  


||1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
||1898: The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia. Pic.


||1901 – Merle Tuve, American geophysicist and academic (d. 1982)
||1901: Merle Tuve born ... geophysicist and academic. He will be a pioneer in the use of pulsed radio waves whose discoveries opened the way to the development of radar and nuclear energy. Pic search.


||Alexander (Alec) Rawson Stokes (b. 27 June 1919) physicist DNA
||1919: Alexander (Alec) Rawson Stokes born ... physicist, DNA. He will co-author the second of three papers published sequentially in Nature on 25 April 1953 announcing the presumed molecular structure of DNA. Pic search.


||1927 – Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.
||1924: Mathematician and academic Bille C. Carlson born. No wiki, see: https://dlmf.nist.gov/about/bio/BCCarlson https://www-facsen.sws.iastate.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/Memorial%20Resolutions/Memorial%20Resolutions%20December%202013.pdf https://www.google.com/search?q=bille+c.+carlson+mathematician


||1931 – Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
||1927: Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi convenes an eleven-day conference to discuss Japan's strategy in China. The Tanaka Memorial, a forged plan for world domination, is later claimed to be a secret report leaked from this conference.


||1935 – Eugene Augustin Lauste, French-American inventor (b. 1857)
||1931: Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Alive @ Jan. 2019. Pic.  


||1937 – Joseph P. Allen, American physicist and astronaut
||1935: Eugene Augustin Lauste dies ... inventor ... instrumental in the technological development of the history of cinema.  Pic search.


File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
||1937: Joseph P. Allen, American physicist and astronaut.


||1952 – Max Dehn, German-American mathematician and academic (b. 1878)
||1949: Asteroid 1566 Icarus discovered ... provisional designation 1949 MA, is an extremely eccentric asteroid, approximately 1.4 km (0.87 mi) in diameter. It is a near-Earth object of the Apollo group and the lowest numbered potentially hazardous asteroid. In 1968, it became the first asteroid ever observed by radar. Its orbit brings it closer to the Sun than Mercury and further out than the orbit of Mars, which also makes it a Mercury-, Venus-, and Mars-crosser. This stony asteroid and relatively fast rotator was discovered by German astronomer Walter Baade at the Palomar Observatory, California. Pic.


||1954 – The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
||1952: Max Dehn dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


|File:Hello, world in C.svg|link="Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|1974: Publication of new family of [["Hello World!" program (nonfiction)|"Hello World" programs]] which use [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to warn users about imminent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
||1954: Physicist Richard Gans dies. He invented Gans theory, which gives the solutions to the Maxwell equations for prolate and oblate spheroidal particles.  Pic: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00016-008-0416-0
 
||1954: The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
 
||1973: Nixon Enemies List: The list became public knowledge on June 27, 1973, when Dean mentioned during hearings with the Senate Watergate Committee that a list existed containing those whom the president did not like.  


File:G I Taylor.jpg|link=G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|1975: Mathematician and physicist [[G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|G. I. Taylor]] dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
File:G I Taylor.jpg|link=G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|1975: Mathematician and physicist [[G. I. Taylor (nonfiction)|G. I. Taylor]] dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.


||1982 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
||1980: Major-General Dr. Walter Robert Dornberger dies ... German Army artillery officer whose career spanned World War I and World War II. He was a leader of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Center. Pic.


||1994 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured.
||1982: Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
 
||1994: Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult release sarin gas in Matsumoto, Japan; Seven people are killed, 660 injured.
 
||2003: Anthony Poshepny dies ... CIA paramilitary officer in what is now called Special Activities Division (renamed Special Activities Center in 2016) ... best remembered for training the US-funded secret army in Laos during the Vietnam War. Pic search.


File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2010: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)]].  
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2010: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says [[Niles Cartouchian (1900s)]].  


||2013 – NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
||2013: NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, a space probe to observe the Sun.
 
||2016: Simon Ramo dies ... physicist and engineer. He led development of microwave and missile technology and is sometimes known as the father of the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).  Pic search.
 
||2016: Alvin Toffler dies ... writer, futurist, and businessman known for his works discussing modern technologies, including the digital revolution and the communication revolution, with emphasis on their effects on cultures worldwide. He is regarded as one of the world's outstanding futurists. Pic.
 
||2018: Hayabusa2 arrival at target asteroid 162173 Ryugu ... an asteroid sample-return mission operated by the Japanese space agency, JAXA. It follows on from Hayabusa and addresses weak points identified in that mission. Hayabusa2 was launched on 3 December 2014 and arrived at near-Earth asteroid 162173 Ryugu in June 2018. It is intended to survey the asteroid for a year and a half, depart in December 2019, and return to Earth in December 2020. Hayabusa2 arrived at the target asteroid 162173 Ryugu (formerly designated 1999 JU3) on 27 June 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2


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Latest revision as of 19:28, 6 February 2022

  • 1806: Mathematician and academic Augustus De Morgan born. De Morgan will formulate two laws, now De Morgan's Laws, pertaining to mathematical induction: (1) the negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations; (2) the negation of a conjunction is the disjunction of the negations.

    1806: Mathematician and academic Augustus De Morgan born. De Morgan will formulate two laws, now De Morgan's Laws, pertaining to mathematical induction: (1) the negation of a disjunction is the conjunction of the negations; (2) the negation of a conjunction is the disjunction of the negations.

  • 1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.

    1831: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Sophie Germain dies. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subject for hundreds of years after.

  • 1880: Mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt dies. He contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.

    1880: Mathematician and academic Carl Wilhelm Borchardt dies. He contributed to arithmetic-geometric mean theory, continuing work by Gauss and Lagrange.

  • 1975: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.

    1975: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor dies. He made major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.

  • 2010: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says Niles Cartouchian (1900s).

    2010: Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden "inspired a generation of cryptographers," says Niles Cartouchian (1900s).

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