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||1293: Henry of Ghent dies ... philosopher. | ||1293: Henry of Ghent dies ... philosopher. No DOB. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=henry+of+ghent | ||
||1793: Josef Ressel born ... inventor, invented the propeller. | ||1793: Josef Ressel born ... inventor, invented the propeller. Pic. | ||
||1807: Moritz Abraham Stern born ... mathematician. Stern was interested in primes that cannot be expressed as the sum of a prime and twice a square (now known as Stern primes). He is known for formulating Stern's diatomic series, which counts the number of ways to write a number as a sum of powers of two with no power used more than twice. Pic. | ||1807: Moritz Abraham Stern born ... mathematician. Stern was interested in primes that cannot be expressed as the sum of a prime and twice a square (now known as Stern primes). He is known for formulating Stern's diatomic series, which counts the number of ways to write a number as a sum of powers of two with no power used more than twice. Pic. | ||
||1818: Angelo Secchi born . | File:Angelo Secchi.jpg|link=Angelo Secchi (nonfiction)|1818: Astronomer, academic, and Jesuit [[Angelo Secchi (nonfiction)|Angelo Secchi]] born. Secchi will be a pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy, and one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star. | ||
||1864: Ashutosh Mukherjee born ... educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician. He was the first student to be awarded a dual degree (MA in Mathematics and Physics) from Calcutta University. Perhaps the most emphatic figure of Indian education, he was a man of great personality, high self-respect, courage and towering administrative ability. The second Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23), Mukherjee was responsible for the foundation of the Bengal Technical Institute in 1906 and the College of Science of the Calcutta University in 1914. Mukherjee also played a vital role in the founding of the University College of Law popularly known as Hazra Law College. The Calcutta Mathematical Society was also founded by Mukherjee in 1908 and he served as the president of the Society from 1908 to 1923. He was also the president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress in 1914. The Ashutosh College was also founded under his stewardship in 1916, when he was Vice-chancellor of University of Calcutta. He was often called "Banglar Bagh" ("Tiger of Bengal") for his high self-esteem, courage, academic integrity and a general intransigent attitude towards the British Government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashutosh_Mukherjee | ||1864: Ashutosh Mukherjee born ... educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician. He was the first student to be awarded a dual degree (MA in Mathematics and Physics) from Calcutta University. Perhaps the most emphatic figure of Indian education, he was a man of great personality, high self-respect, courage and towering administrative ability. The second Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23), Mukherjee was responsible for the foundation of the Bengal Technical Institute in 1906 and the College of Science of the Calcutta University in 1914. Mukherjee also played a vital role in the founding of the University College of Law popularly known as Hazra Law College. The Calcutta Mathematical Society was also founded by Mukherjee in 1908 and he served as the president of the Society from 1908 to 1923. He was also the president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress in 1914. The Ashutosh College was also founded under his stewardship in 1916, when he was Vice-chancellor of University of Calcutta. He was often called "Banglar Bagh" ("Tiger of Bengal") for his high self-esteem, courage, academic integrity and a general intransigent attitude towards the British Government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashutosh_Mukherjee Pic. | ||
File:George Ellery Hale.jpg|link=George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|1868: Astronomer and journalist [[George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|George Ellery Hale]] born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes. | File:George Ellery Hale.jpg|link=George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|1868: Astronomer and journalist [[George Ellery Hale (nonfiction)|George Ellery Hale]] born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes. | ||
||1873: Leo Frobenius born ... ethnologist and archaeologist. | ||1873: Leo Frobenius born ... ethnologist and archaeologist. | ||
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||1892: Ernest Mouchez dies ... French naval officer who became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887. Pic. | ||1892: Ernest Mouchez dies ... French naval officer who became director of the Paris Observatory and launched the ill-fated Carte du Ciel project in 1887. Pic. | ||
||1893: Eduard Čech born ... mathematician. His research interests included projective differential geometry and topology. He is especially known for the technique known as Stone–Čech compactification (in topology) and the notion of Čech cohomology. Pic. | ||1893: Eduard Čech (Cech) born ... mathematician. His research interests included projective differential geometry and topology. He is especially known for the technique known as Stone–Čech compactification (in topology) and the notion of Čech cohomology. Pic. | ||
||1893: Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis born ... scientist and applied statistician. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure and for being one of the members of the first Planning Commission of free India. Pic. | ||1893: Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis born ... scientist and applied statistician. He is best remembered for the Mahalanobis distance, a statistical measure and for being one of the members of the first Planning Commission of free India. Pic. | ||
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||1909: Kôdi Husimi born ... theoretical physicist who served as the president of the Science Council of Japan.[1] Husimi trees in graph theory, the Husimi Q representation in quantum mechanics, and Husimi's theorem in the mathematics of paper folding are named after him. No pic online (except diagrams from papers). | ||1909: Kôdi Husimi born ... theoretical physicist who served as the president of the Science Council of Japan.[1] Husimi trees in graph theory, the Husimi Q representation in quantum mechanics, and Husimi's theorem in the mathematics of paper folding are named after him. No pic online (except diagrams from papers). | ||
||1924: Robert Simpson Woodward dies ... physicist and mathematician. | ||1924: Robert Simpson Woodward dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1938: Roy Mason born - lecturer, writer, and futuristic architect who designed and built a variety of futuristic homes and other buildings in the 1970s and 1980s using low cost materials and alternative energy sources. Mason invented architronics as exemplified in the Xanadu House. Pic. | |||
||1975: Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer. | ||1975: Steve Wozniak tested his first prototype of Apple I computer. | ||
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||1998: Frank Rowlett dies ... cryptologist. Pic. | ||1998: Frank Rowlett dies ... cryptologist. Pic. | ||
||2002: Ole-Johan Dahl born ... computer scientist and academic, co-developed Simula. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ole-Johan+Dahl | |||
File:Marc_Julia.jpg|link=Marc Julia (nonfiction)|2010: Chemist [[Marc Julia (nonfiction)|Marc Julia]] dies. Julia (along with his colleague Jean-Marc Paris) discovered the Julia olefination reaction in 1973. | |||
||2013: Margherita Hack dies ... astrophysicist and author. Pic. | ||2013: Margherita Hack dies ... astrophysicist and author. Pic. | ||
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1818: Astronomer, academic, and Jesuit Angelo Secchi born. Secchi will be a pioneer of astronomical spectroscopy, and one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.
1868: Astronomer and journalist George Ellery Hale born. He will discover magnetic fields in sunspots, and be leader or key figure in the planning or construction of several world-leading telescopes.
1895: Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley dies. He is known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his advocacy of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.
1896: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky born. He will work with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
2010: Chemist Marc Julia dies. Julia (along with his colleague Jean-Marc Paris) discovered the Julia olefination reaction in 1973.