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||490 BC: Greco-Persian Wars: Athenians and their Plataean allies turned back the first Persian invasion of Greece in the Battle of Marathon.
||490 BC: Greco-Persian Wars: Athenians and their Plataean allies turned back the first Persian invasion of Greece in the Battle of Marathon.
||1611: Simon Forman dies ... occultist and astrologer. Pic (fierce!).


File:Nebula orionis as depicted by Guillaume Le Gentil in 1758.jpg|link=Guillaume Le Gentil (nonfiction)|1725: Astronomer [[Guillaume Le Gentil (nonfiction)|Guillaume Le Gentil]] born. He will discover what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).
File:Nebula orionis as depicted by Guillaume Le Gentil in 1758.jpg|link=Guillaume Le Gentil (nonfiction)|1725: Astronomer [[Guillaume Le Gentil (nonfiction)|Guillaume Le Gentil]] born. He will discover what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).


||1812: Richard March Hoe born ... engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press.
||1812: Richard March Hoe born ... engineer and businessman, invented the Rotary printing press. Pic.


||1818: Richard Jordan Gatling born ... inventor, invented the Gatling gun.
||1818: Richard Jordan Gatling born ... inventor, invented the Gatling gun. Pic.


||1851: Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster born ... physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. Pic.
||1851: Franz Arthur Friedrich Schuster born ... physicist known for his work in spectroscopy, electrochemistry, optics, X-radiography and the application of harmonic analysis to physics. Pic.
||1860: William Walker born ... physician, lawyer, journalist and mercenary who organized several private military expeditions into Latin America, with the intention of establishing English-speaking slave colonies under his personal control, an enterprise then known as "filibustering". Walker usurped the presidency of the Republic of Nicaragua in 1856 and ruled until 1857, when he was defeated by a coalition of Central American armies. He returned in an attempt to reestablish his control of the region and was captured and executed by the government of Honduras in 1860. Pic.


||1869: Peter Mark Roget born ... physician, natural theologian and lexicographer. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (Roget's Thesaurus), a classified collection of related words. Pic.
||1869: Peter Mark Roget born ... physician, natural theologian and lexicographer. He is best known for publishing, in 1852, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (Roget's Thesaurus), a classified collection of related words. Pic.


||1894: Dorothy Maud Wrinch born ... mathematician, biochemist and philosopher.
||1877: Mathematician George Hamel born ... "He is perhaps best known for the Hamel basis ... for the real numbers as a vector space over the rational numbers." Data and pic: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Hamel.html
 
||1894: Dorothy Maud Wrinch born ... mathematician, biochemist, and philosopher ... best known for her attempt to deduce protein structure using mathematical principles. She was a champion of the controversial 'cyclol' hypothesis for the structure of proteins. Pic.


||1894: Frans Michel Penning born ... experimental physicist. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1923, and studied low pressure gas discharges at the Philips Laboratory in Eindhoven, developing new electron tubes during World War II. Pic.
||1894: Frans Michel Penning born ... experimental physicist. He received his PhD from the University of Leiden in 1923, and studied low pressure gas discharges at the Philips Laboratory in Eindhoven, developing new electron tubes during World War II. Pic.


||1897: Irène Joliot-Curie born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1897: Irène Joliot-Curie born ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1877: Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel born ... mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device.
||1877: Georg Karl Wilhelm Hamel born ... mathematician with interests in mechanics, the foundations of mathematics and function theory. In 1927, Hamel studied the size of the key space for the Kryha encryption device. Pic search.


File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.
File:Haskell Brooks Curry.jpg|link=Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|1900: Mathematician and academic [[Haskell Curry (nonfiction)|Haskell Curry]] born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.


||1900: Jacob Mendes Da Costa dies ... physician.
||1900: Jacob Mendes Da Costa dies ... physician. Pic.


||1906: Ernesto Cesàro dies ... mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. pic
File:Norman Lorimer Dean with his Dean drive.jpg|link=Norman Lorimer Dean (nonfiction)|1902: Inventor [[Norman Lorimer Dean (nonfiction)|Norman Lorimer Dean]] born. Dean will design the Dean drive, which he will promote as a reactionless drive.


||1917: Désiré André dies ... mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations.
||1906: Ernesto Cesàro dies ... mathematician who worked in the field of differential geometry. This is his most important contribution, which he described in Lezione di geometria intrinseca (Naples, 1890). This work contains descriptions of curves which today are eponymously named after him. Pic.


||1918: Maxime Bôcher dies ... mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher's theorem, Bôcher's equation, and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after him.
||1917: Désiré André dies ... mathematician, best known for his work on Catalan numbers and alternating permutations. Pic search.


||1923: Jules Violle dies ... physicist and academic.
||1918: Maxime Bôcher dies ... mathematician who published about 100 papers on differential equations, series, and algebra. He also wrote elementary texts such as Trigonometry and Analytic Geometry. Bôcher's theorem, Bôcher's equation, and the Bôcher Memorial Prize are named after him. Pic.


||1927: Sarah Frances Whiting dies ... physicist and astronomer.
||1923: Jules Violle dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search.


File:Arthur Compton 1927.jpg|link=Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|1932: American physicist and crime-fighter [[Arthur Compton (nonfiction)|Arthur Compton]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], based on the Compton effect, use the particle nature of electromagnetic radiation to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1927: Sarah Frances Whiting dies ... physicist and astronomer. Pic.


File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1933: [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leó Szilárd]], waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.
File:Leo Szilard.jpg|link=Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|1933: [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|Leó Szilárd]], waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.


||1940: Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.
File:Lascaux_painting.jpg|link=Lascaux (nonfiction)|1940: [[Lascaux (nonfiction)|Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France]].


||1952: Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
||1952: Strange occurrences, including a monster sighting, take place in Flatwoods, West Virginia.
||1953: Hugo Schmeisser dies ... weapons designer and engineer. Pic search.


||1959: The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.
||1959: The Soviet Union launches a large rocket, Lunik II, at the moon.


||1961: Carl Hermann dies ... physicist and academic.
||1961: Carl Hermann dies ... physicist and academic ... crystallography. Pic search.


||1962: President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
||1962: President John F. Kennedy, at a speech at Rice University, reaffirms that the U.S. will put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
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||1992: NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
||1992: NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.


||2005: Serge Lang dies ... mathematician, author and academic.
||2001: Norman Ernest Borlaug dies ... agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Borlaug was awarded multiple honors for his work, including the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Pic.
 
||2005: Serge Lang dies ... mathematician, author and academic. Pic.


||2009: Erich Leo Lehmann born ... statistician, who made a major contribution to nonparametric hypothesis testing. He is one of the eponyms of the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and of the Hodges–Lehmann estimator of the median of a population. Pic.
||2009: Erich Leo Lehmann born ... statistician, who made a major contribution to nonparametric hypothesis testing. He is one of the eponyms of the Lehmann–Scheffé theorem and of the Hodges–Lehmann estimator of the median of a population. Pic.


||2016: Ali Javan dies ... physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Pic.
||2016: Ali Javan dies ... physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Pic.
File:Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden.jpg|link=Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden|2017: ''[[Dard Hunter, Glyph Warden]]'' wins Pulitzer Prize.


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Latest revision as of 12:55, 7 February 2022

  • 1725: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil born. He will discover what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).

    1725: Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil born. He will discover what are now known as the Messier objects M32, M36 and M38, as well as the nebulosity in M8, and he was the first to catalogue the dark nebula sometimes known as Le Gentil 3 (in the constellation Cygnus).

  • 1900: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.

    1900: Mathematician and academic Haskell Curry born. He will be known for his work in combinatory logic.

  • 1902: Inventor Norman Lorimer Dean born. Dean will design the Dean drive, which he will promote as a reactionless drive.

    1902: Inventor Norman Lorimer Dean born. Dean will design the Dean drive, which he will promote as a reactionless drive.

  • 1933: Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.

    1933: Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light on Southampton Row in Bloomsbury, conceives the idea of the nuclear chain reaction.

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