Template:Selected anniversaries/July 19: Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
 
(2 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 27: Line 27:


||1849: Raphael Meldola born ... chemist and entomologist. Meldola blue. Pic.
||1849: Raphael Meldola born ... chemist and entomologist. Meldola blue. Pic.
||1851: Hippolyte Visart de Bocarmé dies ... Belgian nobleman and convicted murderer. He poisoned his brother-in-law in order to acquire some urgently needed money. In 1851, the chemist Jean Servais Stas proved that Visart de Bocarmé had used nicotine extracted from tobacco leaves as poison. This was the first exact proof of alkaloids in forensic medicine. Pic.


||1857: Stefano Franscini dies ... statistician and politician.
||1857: Stefano Franscini dies ... statistician and politician.
Line 36: Line 38:
||1878: Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
||1878: Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1881: Friedrich Dessauer born ... physicist and philosopher. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=friedrich+dessauer
||1881: Friedrich Dessauer born ... physicist and philosopher. Pic search.


||1883: Max Fleischer born ... animator and producer.
||1883: Max Fleischer born ... animator and producer.
Line 43: Line 45:


||1886: Michael Fekete born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
||1886: Michael Fekete born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
File:Niles Cartouchian 2.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian|1893: Famed gem detective and diplomat [[Niles Cartouchian]] foils villains, returns stolen relics, brokers peace accord.


File:Aleksandr Khinchin.gif|link=Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|1894: Mathematician and academic [[Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Khinchin]] born. He will become one of the founders of modern probability theory.
File:Aleksandr Khinchin.gif|link=Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|1894: Mathematician and academic [[Aleksandr Khinchin (nonfiction)|Aleksandr Khinchin]] born. He will become one of the founders of modern probability theory.


||1894: Percy Spencer born ... physicist and inventor of the microwave oven. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Percy+Spencer
||1894: Percy Spencer born ... physicist and inventor of the microwave oven. Pic search.
 
File:Radium Jane.jpg|link=Radium Jane|1895: Celebrity time-traveller [[Radium Jane]] says that [[Extract of Radium]] gives her the steady nerves she needs to fight [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  


||1900: The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
||1900: The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
Line 78: Line 76:
File:Hugh Everett III.jpg|link=Hugh Everett III (nonfiction)|1982: Physicist [[Hugh Everett III (nonfiction)|Hugh Everett III]] dies. He proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.
File:Hugh Everett III.jpg|link=Hugh Everett III (nonfiction)|1982: Physicist [[Hugh Everett III (nonfiction)|Hugh Everett III]] dies. He proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.


File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1984: New type of [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] displays artificial intelligence, forecasts [[crimes against mathematical constants]] up to ten megabytes per fluid minute in advance.
||2002: Arthur Lee Loeb dies ... scientist and crystallographer. His life's work involved the articulation of a language of spatial patterns. His language, which he described as "Visual Mathematics" and "Design Science," led to lifelong collaboration with innovators such as R. Buckminster Fuller and M.C. Escher. Pic search.


||2002: Arthur Lee Loeb dies ... scientist and crystallographer. His life's work involved the articulation of a language of spatial patterns. His language, which he described as "Visual Mathematics" and "Design Science," led to lifelong collaboration with innovators such as R. Buckminster Fuller and M.C. Escher. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Arthur+Lee+Loeb
||2006: George Wetherill dies ... physicist and academic. He contributed to high-precision geochronology, radiometric chronology of meteorite and lunar samples, and numerical techniques for predicting the physical and orbital properties of terrestrial planets. Pic search tech.
 
||2006: George Wetherill dies ... physicist and academic. He contributed to high-precision geochronology, radiometric chronology of meteorite and lunar samples, and numerical techniques for predicting the physical and orbital properties of terrestrial planets. Pic search tech: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+Wetherill


||2007: Roberto Fontanarrosa dies ... cartoonist.
||2007: Roberto Fontanarrosa dies ... cartoonist.
Line 89: Line 85:


||2011: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic (cool tech).
||2011: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic (cool tech).
Two_Creatures_2.jpg|link=Two Creatures 2 (nonfiction)|2017: ''[[Two Creatures 2 (nonfiction)|Two Creatures 2]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]].
   
   
</gallery>
</gallery>

Latest revision as of 11:14, 7 February 2022

  • 1631: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini dies. His work promoted rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.

    1631: Philosopher and academic Cesare Cremonini dies. His work promoted rationalism (against revelation) and Aristotelian materialism (against the dualist immortality of the soul) inside scholasticism.

  • 1814: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt born. He will found Colt's Manufacturing Company.

    1814: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt born. He will found Colt's Manufacturing Company.

  • 1894: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin born. He will become one of the founders of modern probability theory.

    1894: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin born. He will become one of the founders of modern probability theory.

  • 1982: Physicist Hugh Everett III dies. He proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.

    1982: Physicist Hugh Everett III dies. He proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.

Retrieved from "https://gnomonchronicles.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Selected_anniversaries/July_19&oldid=89659"