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File:Michel de Montaigne.jpg|link=Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|1592: Philosopher and author [[Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|Michel de Montaigne]] dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. | File:Michel de Montaigne.jpg|link=Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|1592: Philosopher and author [[Michel de Montaigne (nonfiction)|Michel de Montaigne]] dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. | ||
||1755: Oliver Evans born ... inventor, engineer and businessman born in rural Delaware and later rooted commercially in Philadelphia. He was one of the first Americans building steam engines and an advocate of high pressure steam (vs. low pressure steam). A pioneer in the fields of automation, materials handling and steam power, Evans was one of the most prolific and influential inventors in the early years of the United States. Pic. | ||1755: Oliver Evans born ... inventor, engineer and businessman born in rural Delaware and later rooted commercially in Philadelphia. He was one of the first Americans building steam engines and an advocate of high pressure steam (vs. low pressure steam). A pioneer in the fields of automation, materials handling and steam power, Evans was one of the most prolific and influential inventors in the early years of the United States. Pic. | ||
||1859: Wilhelm Joseph Grailich dies ... physicist, mineralogist and crystallographer. | ||1859: Wilhelm Joseph Grailich dies ... physicist, mineralogist and crystallographer. Pic search. | ||
File:Dmitry_Mirimanoff.jpg|link=Dmitry Mirimanoff (nonfiction)|1861: Mathematician [[Dmitry Mirimanoff (nonfiction)|Dmitry Mirimanoff]] born. In 1917, he will introduce the cumulative hierarchy of sets and the notion of von Neumann ordinals; although he will introduce a notion of regular (and well-founded set) he will not consider regularity as an axiom, but also explore what is now called non-well-founded set theory, and the idea of what is now called bisimulation. | File:Dmitry_Mirimanoff.jpg|link=Dmitry Mirimanoff (nonfiction)|1861: Mathematician [[Dmitry Mirimanoff (nonfiction)|Dmitry Mirimanoff]] born. In 1917, he will introduce the cumulative hierarchy of sets and the notion of von Neumann ordinals; although he will introduce a notion of regular (and well-founded set) he will not consider regularity as an axiom, but also explore what is now called non-well-founded set theory, and the idea of what is now called bisimulation. | ||
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||1886: Amelie Beese born ... pilot and engineer. Pic. | ||1886: Amelie Beese born ... pilot and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1886: Robert Robinson born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1886: Robert Robinson born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1887: Leopold Ružička born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1887: Leopold Ružička born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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File:Hannibal Goodwin.jpg|link=Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|1898: Priest and inventor [[Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|Hannibal Goodwin]] patents celluloid photographic film. | File:Hannibal Goodwin.jpg|link=Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|1898: Priest and inventor [[Hannibal Goodwin (nonfiction)|Hannibal Goodwin]] patents celluloid photographic film. | ||
||1905: Michael Willcox Perrin born ... scientist who created the first practical polythene, directed the first British atomic bomb programme, and participated in the Allied intelligence of the Nazi atomic bomb. Pic. | |||
||1912: Horace W. Babcock born ... astronomer, son of Harold Babcock. Working together, they were the first to measure the distribution of magnetic fields over the surface of the Sun. Horace invented and built many astronomical instruments, including a ruling engine which produced excellent diffraction gratings, the solar magnetograph, and microphotometers, automatic guiders, and exposure meters for the 100 and 200-inch telescopes. By combining his polarizing analyzer with the spectrograph he discovered magnetic fields in other stars. He developed important models of sunspots and their magnetism, and was the first to propose adaptive optics (1953). Pic: https://aas.org/obituaries/horace-welcome-babcock-1912-2003 | ||1912: Horace W. Babcock born ... astronomer, son of Harold Babcock. Working together, they were the first to measure the distribution of magnetic fields over the surface of the Sun. Horace invented and built many astronomical instruments, including a ruling engine which produced excellent diffraction gratings, the solar magnetograph, and microphotometers, automatic guiders, and exposure meters for the 100 and 200-inch telescopes. By combining his polarizing analyzer with the spectrograph he discovered magnetic fields in other stars. He developed important models of sunspots and their magnetism, and was the first to propose adaptive optics (1953). Pic: https://aas.org/obituaries/horace-welcome-babcock-1912-2003 | ||
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||1918: Herbert Reuben John Grosch born ... early computer scientist, perhaps best known for Grosch's law, which he formulated in 1950. Grosch's Law is an aphorism that states "economy is as the square root of the speed." | ||1918: Herbert Reuben John Grosch born ... early computer scientist, perhaps best known for Grosch's law, which he formulated in 1950. Grosch's Law is an aphorism that states "economy is as the square root of the speed." | ||
||1918: Irving Ezra Segal born ... mathematician known for work on theoretical quantum mechanics. He shares credit for what is often referred to as the Segal–Shale–Weil representation. | ||1918: Irving Ezra Segal born ... mathematician known for work on theoretical quantum mechanics. He shares credit for what is often referred to as the Segal–Shale–Weil representation. Pic. | ||
||1923: Peter Karl Henrici born ... mathematician best known for his contributions to the field of numerical analysis. Pic. | ||1923: Peter Karl Henrici born ... mathematician best known for his contributions to the field of numerical analysis. Pic. | ||
||1925: Harley Flanders born ... mathematician and academic ... algebra and algebraic number theory, linear algebra, electrical networks, scientific computing. Pic search | ||1925: Harley Flanders born ... mathematician and academic ... algebra and algebraic number theory, linear algebra, electrical networks, scientific computing. Pic search. | ||
||1926: Sidney David Drell born ... theoretical physicist and arms control expert. https://www.google.com/search?q=Sidney+David+Drell | ||1926: Sidney David Drell born ... theoretical physicist and arms control expert. https://www.google.com/search?q=Sidney+David+Drell | ||
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||1956: The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage. | ||1956: The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage. | ||
||1959: The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it. | |||
||1981: Gregory Breit dies ... physicist and academic. During the early stages of the war, Breit was chosen by Arthur Compton to supervise the early design of the first atomic bomb during an early phase in what would later become the Manhattan Project. Breit resigned his position in 1942, feeling that the work was going too slowly and that there had been security breaches on the project; his job went to Robert Oppenheimer, who was later appointed to scientific director of the entire project. Pic. | ||1981: Gregory Breit dies ... physicist and academic. During the early stages of the war, Breit was chosen by Arthur Compton to supervise the early design of the first atomic bomb during an early phase in what would later become the Manhattan Project. Breit resigned his position in 1942, feeling that the work was going too slowly and that there had been security breaches on the project; his job went to Robert Oppenheimer, who was later appointed to scientific director of the entire project. Pic. | ||
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||1987: Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning. | ||1987: Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning. | ||
||2004: Chemist Luis E. Miramontes dies. He co-invented the progestin norethisterone, used in one of the first three oral contraceptives. Pic. | |||
||2014: Matthew Sands dies ... physicist and educator best known as a co-author of the ''Feynman Lectures on Physics''. Pic. | ||2014: Matthew Sands dies ... physicist and educator best known as a co-author of the ''Feynman Lectures on Physics''. Pic. | ||
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1592: Philosopher and author Michel de Montaigne dies. He was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.
1861: Mathematician Dmitry Mirimanoff born. In 1917, he will introduce the cumulative hierarchy of sets and the notion of von Neumann ordinals; although he will introduce a notion of regular (and well-founded set) he will not consider regularity as an axiom, but also explore what is now called non-well-founded set theory, and the idea of what is now called bisimulation.
1873: Mathematician and author Constantin Carathéodory born. He will pioneer the axiomatic formulation of thermodynamics along a purely geometrical approach.
1898: Priest and inventor Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.