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||1566: Nostradamus dies ... astrologer and author. Pic. | ||1566: Nostradamus dies ... astrologer and author. Pic. | ||
||1613: Bartholomaeus Pitiscus dies . | File:Trigonometriae_-_Bartholomaeus_Pitiscus.jpg|link=Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (nonfiction)|1613: Mathematician, astronomer, and theologian [[Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (nonfiction)|Bartholomaeus Pitiscus]] dies. Pitiscus coined the word "trigonometry". | ||
||1621: Thomas Harriot dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer. Pic. | ||1621: Thomas Harriot dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and ethnographer. Pic. | ||
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File:Thomas Savery.gif|link=Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|1698: [[Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|Thomas Savery]] patents the first steam engine. Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him. | File:Thomas Savery.gif|link=Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|1698: [[Thomas Savery (nonfiction)|Thomas Savery]] patents the first steam engine. Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him. | ||
||1767: Christoph Andreas Mangold dies ... professor of anatomy at the University of Jena, who also studied chemistry. Mangold is known for his studies of gunpowder and cinnabar as well as the idea that medical diagnosis should be based upon symptoms, laboratory tests, and comparisons with other patients. No DOB. No pics online. | ||1767: Christoph Andreas Mangold dies ... professor of anatomy at the University of Jena, who also studied chemistry. Mangold is known for his studies of gunpowder and cinnabar as well as the idea that medical diagnosis should be based upon symptoms, laboratory tests, and comparisons with other patients. No DOB. No pics online. | ||
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||1967: Vela 4 and Vela 3 satellites detected a flash of gamma radiation unlike any known nuclear weapons signature. Uncertain what had happened but not considering the matter particularly urgent, the team at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, led by Ray Klebesadel, filed the data away for investigation. As additional Vela satellites were launched with better instruments, the Los Alamos team continued to find inexplicable gamma-ray bursts in their data. By analyzing the different arrival times of the bursts as detected by different satellites, the team was able to determine rough estimates for the sky positions of sixteen bursts and definitively rule out a terrestrial or solar origin. The discovery was declassified and published in 1973 as an Astrophysical Journal article entitled "Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts of Cosmic Origin". This alerted the astronomical community to the existence of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), now recognised as the most violent events in the universe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_(satellite) | ||1967: Vela 4 and Vela 3 satellites detected a flash of gamma radiation unlike any known nuclear weapons signature. Uncertain what had happened but not considering the matter particularly urgent, the team at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, led by Ray Klebesadel, filed the data away for investigation. As additional Vela satellites were launched with better instruments, the Los Alamos team continued to find inexplicable gamma-ray bursts in their data. By analyzing the different arrival times of the bursts as detected by different satellites, the team was able to determine rough estimates for the sky positions of sixteen bursts and definitively rule out a terrestrial or solar origin. The discovery was declassified and published in 1973 as an Astrophysical Journal article entitled "Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts of Cosmic Origin". This alerted the astronomical community to the existence of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), now recognised as the most violent events in the universe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela_(satellite) | ||
||1988: Vibert Douglas dies ... astrophysicist and astronomer. She will research the spectra of A and B type stars and the Stark Effect using the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. Pic search | ||1988: Vibert Douglas dies ... astrophysicist and astronomer. She will research the spectra of A and B type stars and the Stark Effect using the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory. Pic search. | ||
||2002: Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon. Pic. | ||2002: Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon. Pic. | ||
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||2016: Rudolf Emil Kálmán dies ... electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He was most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control. Pic. | ||2016: Rudolf Emil Kálmán dies ... electrical engineer, mathematician, and inventor. He was most noted for his co-invention and development of the Kalman filter, a mathematical algorithm that is widely used in signal processing, control systems, and guidance, navigation and control. Pic. | ||
|link=Marjorie Rice (nonfiction)|2017: [[Marjorie Rice (nonfiction)|Marjorie Rice]] dies ... amateur mathematician most famous for her discoveries in geometry. Pic search. | |||
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1613: Mathematician, astronomer, and theologian Bartholomaeus Pitiscus dies. Pitiscus coined the word "trigonometry".
1698: Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine. Savery's patent will force Thomas Newcomen into partnership with him.
1778: Philosopher and author Jean-Jacques Rousseau dies. His political philosophy influenced the Enlightenment in France and across Europe.
1850: Stokes' theorem appeared for the first time as a postscript to a letter from Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) to Stokes. By the time Stokes died, the theorem was universally known as "Stokes' theorem."
1897: British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
1937: Pilot and author Amelia Earhart disappears. She set many records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.