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File:Li Shizhen.jpg|link=Li Shizhen (nonfiction)|1518: Physician and scientist [[Li Shizhen (nonfiction)|Li Shizhen]] born. He will develop many innovative methods for the proper classification of herb components and medications to be used for treating diseases, earning a reputation as the greatest scientific naturalist of China. | File:Li Shizhen.jpg|link=Li Shizhen (nonfiction)|1518: Physician and scientist [[Li Shizhen (nonfiction)|Li Shizhen]] born. He will develop many innovative methods for the proper classification of herb components and medications to be used for treating diseases, earning a reputation as the greatest scientific naturalist of China. | ||
|| | ||1749: William Jones dies ... mathematician and academic. No DOB. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1782: Pierre Berthier born ... mineralogist and mining engineer who discovered bauxite (aluminium ore) on 23 Mar 1821 near the village Les Baux de Provence in southern France. On 24 May 1806, he joined the central laboratory at the Board of Mines. From 1816, he was chief of the laboratory at the École des Mines, and professor of assaying. Berthier analyzed kaolin along with dozens of other minerals and ores. He sought out phosphate deposits valuable for agriculture. He published a treatise (1834) of practical analytical procedures that were widely used by other mineralogists. In another field, Berthier noticed - before Mitscherlich - that isomorphism occurred whereby chemically different substances can have the same crystalline form and even co-crystallize. Pic. | ||
||1790: Jean-Baptiste L. Romé de l'Isle dies ... geologist and mineralogist. Pic: statue. | |||
|| | ||1817: Valentine Seaman dies ... was an American physician who introduced the smallpox vaccine to the United States and mapped yellow fever in New York City. His contributions to public health also include women's education in nursing and midwifery. Pic not Wikipedia. | ||
||1819 | ||1819: The Bank of Savings in New York City, the first savings bank in the United States, opens. | ||
||1879 | ||1842: Otto Stolz born ... mathematician noted for his work on mathematical analysis and infinitesimals. Pic. | ||
||1866: Henry Frederick Baker born ... mathematician, working mainly in algebraic geometry, but also remembered for contributions to partial differential equations (related to what would become known as solitons), and Lie groups. Pic. | |||
||1879: Alfred Korzybski born ... mathematician, linguist, and philosopher. He argued that human knowledge of the world is limited both by the human nervous system and the languages humans have developed, and thus no one can have direct access to reality, given that the most we can know is that which is filtered through the brain's responses to reality. His best known dictum is "The map is not the territory". Pic. | |||
File:Hasan Tahsini.jpg|link=Hasan Tahsini (nonfiction)|1881: Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher [[Hasan Tahsini (nonfiction)|Hasan Tahsini]] dies. He was one of the most prominent scholars of the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century. | File:Hasan Tahsini.jpg|link=Hasan Tahsini (nonfiction)|1881: Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher [[Hasan Tahsini (nonfiction)|Hasan Tahsini]] dies. He was one of the most prominent scholars of the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century. | ||
||1883 | ||1883: Franz Kafka born ... author. | ||
||1886: Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile. Pic. | |||
||1886: The ''New-York Tribune'' becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand. | |||
||1897: Jesse Douglas born ... mathematician and academic. He will contribute a general solution of the Problem of Plateau, which asks whether a minimal surface exists for a given boundary. The problem, open since 1760 when Lagrange raised it, is part of the calculus of variations and is also known as the soap bubble problem. Pic search. | |||
||1903: Leopold Bernhard Gegenbauer dies ... mathematician remembered best as an algebraist. Gegenbauer polynomials are named after him. Pic. | |||
|| | ||1921: Viktor von Lang dies ... chemist. He is counted among the pioneers and founders of crystal physics. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1934: Mathematician Bill Parry born. Parry contributed to dynamical systems, and, in particular, ergodic theory, and made significant contributions to these fields. He is considered to have been at the forefront of the introduction of ergodic theory to the United Kingdom. He played a founding role in the study of subshifts of finite type, and his work on nilflows was highly regarded. Pic. | ||
||1935: André Citroën dies ... engineer and businessman, founded Citroën. Pic. | |||
|| | ||1941: Włodzimierz Stożek dies was a Polish mathematician. He published numerous papers on the theory of integral equations, potential theory, as well as on many other branches of mathematics. (Death date: or July 4). Pic. | ||
||1957: Frederick Alexander Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell dies - British physicist who was prime scientific adviser to Winston Churchill in World War II. Pic. | |||
||1964: Isidor Pavlovich Natanson dies ... mathematician known for contributions to real analysis and constructive function theory, in particular, for his textbooks on these subjects. Pic search. | |||
File:N1 19 September 1968.jpg|link=N1 rocket (nonfiction)|1969: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet [[N1 rocket (nonfiction)|N1 rocket]] explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad. | File:N1 19 September 1968.jpg|link=N1 rocket (nonfiction)|1969: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet [[N1 rocket (nonfiction)|N1 rocket]] explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad. | ||
||1977: Alexander Volkov dies ... mathematician and author. Pic search. | |||
||Ixtoc I oil spill: Ixtoc I was an exploratory oil well being drilled by the semi-submersible drilling rig Sedco 135 in the Bay of Campeche of the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 km (62 mi) northwest of Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche in waters 50 m (164 ft) deep. On 3 June 1979, the well suffered a blowout resulting in one of the largest oil spills in history. | |||
||1985: Charles Herbert Colvin dies ... engineer, co-founded the Pioneer Instrument Company. Pic search. | |||
||1988: United States Navy warship USS '''Vincennes''' shoots down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard. | |||
|| | ||1990: Maurice Girodias dies ... publisher who was the founder of the Olympia Press. At one time he was the owner of his father's Obelisk Press. He spent most of his productive years in Paris. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1991: Ernst Witt dies ... mathematician, one of the leading algebraists of his time. Pic. | ||
||1998 | ||1998: Danielle Bunten Berry dies ... game designer and programmer. Pic. | ||
||2006 | ||2006: Joseph Goguen dies ... computer scientist, developed the OBJ programming language. Pic. | ||
File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2007: NASA approves a mission extension for [[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]], sending the spacecraft to comet Tempel 1. | |||
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Latest revision as of 20:13, 6 February 2022
1518: Physician and scientist Li Shizhen born. He will develop many innovative methods for the proper classification of herb components and medications to be used for treating diseases, earning a reputation as the greatest scientific naturalist of China.
1881: Astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher Hasan Tahsini dies. He was one of the most prominent scholars of the Ottoman Empire of the 19th century.
1969: The biggest explosion in the history of rocketry occurs when the Soviet N1 rocket explodes and subsequently destroys its launchpad.
2007: NASA approves a mission extension for Stardust, sending the spacecraft to comet Tempel 1.