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File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] dies. | || *** DONE: Pics *** | ||
||31: Roman Emperor Caligula born. Pic. | |||
||1654: Ole Worm dies ... physician and historian. Pic. | |||
||1663: Guillaume Amontons born ... physicist and instrument maker. Pic. | |||
||1682: Mathematician Michele Rolle published an elegant solution to a difficult problem publicly posed by Ozanam: Find four integers the difference of any two of which is a perfect square as well as the sum of three of the numbers. This brought him public recognition. Pic. | |||
||1721: John Keill dies ... Scottish mathematician, academic and author who was an important disciple of Isaac Newton. Pic: book cover. | |||
||1730: Louis Necker born ... mathematician, physicist, professor and a banker in Paris. He was the elder brother of Jacques Necker, minister of Finance in France when the French Revolution broke out. Pic. | |||
||1772: William Borlase born ... naturalist, geologist, and antiquary. He will oppress Methodist preachers in his capacity of magistrate: various Methodist preachers were seized on warrants issued by him and press-ganged to serve on ships abroad. Pic. | |||
||1786: Michel Eugène Chevreul born ... chemist and academic ... worked with fatty acids led to early applications in the fields of art and science. He is credited with the discovery of margaric acid, creatine, and designing an early form of soap made from animal fats and salt. He lived to 102 and was a pioneer in the field of gerontology. Pic (cool). | |||
||1796: John McKinly dies ... physician and politician, 1st Governor of Delaware. Pic search. | |||
||1821: Hermann von Helmholtz born ... physician and physicist. Pic. | |||
||1834: Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding dies. He discovered Juno. Pic. | |||
||1865: John Appold dies ... engineer. He will invent (among other things) an improved centrifugal pump, and a brake employed in laying deep-sea telegraph cables (used in laying the first Transatlantic cable in 1858). Pic. | |||
||1870: Maria Montessori born ... physician and educator. Pic. | |||
||1880: Heinrich Franz Friedrich Tietze born ... mathematician, famous for the Tietze extension theorem on functions from topological spaces to the real numbers. He also developed the Tietze transformations for group presentations, and was the first to pose the group isomorphism problem. Pic. | |||
||1887: Friedrich Adolf Paneth born ... chemist. He was considered the greatest authority of his time on volatile hydrides and also made important contributions to the study of the stratosphere. Pic search. | |||
||1895: German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon. Pic. | |||
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1897: [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]] patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector. | |||
File:Georg Cantor 1894.png|link=Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|1899: [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]] writes to [[Richard Dedekind (nonfiction)|Dedekind]], remarking that his "diagonal process" could be used to show that the power set of a set has more elements than the set itself. | |||
||1905: Robert Bacher born ... physicist and academic ... one of the leaders of the Manhattan Project. Pic. | |||
||1913: Bernard Lovell born ... physicist and radio astronomer. Pic. | |||
||1916: Robert Hanbury Brown born ... astronomer and physicist ... made notable contributions to the development of radar and later conducted pioneering work in the field of radio astronomy. With Richard Q. Twiss he developed the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect leading to the creation of intensity interferometers. Pic. | |||
||1920: Louis Arthur Ducos du Hauron dies ... pioneer of color photography. He worked on developing practical processes for color photography on the three-color principle, using both additive and subtractive methods; and introduced the anaglyph stereoscopic print, the "red and blue glasses" type of 3-D print. Pic. | |||
||1920: The first radio news program is broadcast by 8MK in Detroit. | |||
||1920: Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt born ... physician, physiologist, philosopher, and professor, known today as one of the founding figures of modern psychology. Wundt, who noted psychology as a science apart from philosophy and biology, was the first person ever to call himself a psychologist. He is widely regarded as the "father of experimental psychology." Pic. | |||
||1925: Ernest Henry Nickel born ... mineralogist ... best known as an editor of the ninth edition of the Nickel-Strunz classification together with Karl Hugo Strunz. Pic search. | |||
||1937: Albert Heim dies ... geologist, noted for his three-volume Geologie der Schweiz. Pic. | |||
||1939: Nazi Germany mounts a false flag attack on the Gleiwitz radio station, creating an excuse to attack Poland the following day, thus starting World War II in Europe. | |||
||1944: Roger Dean born ... illustrator and publisher. (Alive August 2019.) | |||
File:Stefan Banach.jpg|link=Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|1945: Mathematician and academic [[Stefan Banach (nonfiction)|Stefan Banach]] dies. Banach was one of the founders of modern functional analysis. | |||
||1949: André-Louis Debierne dies ... chemist and is considered the discoverer of the element actinium. In 1910, he and Marie Curie prepared radium in metallic form in visible amounts. Pic. | |||
||1950: Subbayya Sivasankaranarayana Pillai dies ... mathematician specializing in number theory. He contributed to the solution of Waring's problem. The Pillai sequence 1, 4, 27, 1354, ..., is a quickly-growing integer sequence in which each term is the sum of the previous term and a prime number whose following prime gap is larger than the previous term. Pic. | |||
File:Kurt Gödel.jpg|link=Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician and philosopher [[Kurt Gödel (nonfiction)|Kurt Gödel]] addresses the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on his work in relativity theory. | |||
||1965: E. E. Smith dies ... engineer and author. Pic. | |||
||1980: Arthur Sard dies ... mathematician, famous for his work in differential topology and in spline interpolation. His fame stems primarily from Sard's theorem, which says that the set of critical values of a differential function which has sufficiently many derivatives has measure zero. Pic search. | |||
||2000: John Alexander Simpson dies ... worked as an experimental nuclear, and cosmic ray physicist who was deeply committed to educating the public and political leaders about science and its implications. Pic. | |||
||2002: George Porter dies ... chemist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1967. Pic. | |||
||2002: Chemist Martin Kaymen dies ... together with Sam Ruben, co-discovered the synthesis of the isotope carbon-14 on February 27, 1940, at the University of California Radiation Laboratory, Berkeley. Pic search. | |||
||2005: Joseph Rotblat dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||2006: Edvard Munch's famous painting ''The Scream'', stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police. | |||
||2013: Jan Camiel Willems dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search. | |||
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Latest revision as of 13:29, 7 February 2022
1897: Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1899: Georg Cantor writes to Dedekind, remarking that his "diagonal process" could be used to show that the power set of a set has more elements than the set itself.
1945: Mathematician and academic Stefan Banach dies. Banach was one of the founders of modern functional analysis.
1950: Mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel addresses the International Congress of Mathematicians, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on his work in relativity theory.