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File:Blaise Pascal.jpg|link=Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|1648: [[Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|Blaise Pascal]] performs experiments to confirm the theory of atmospheric pressure and the existence of a vacuum. | File:Blaise Pascal.jpg|link=Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|1648: [[Blaise Pascal (nonfiction)|Blaise Pascal]] performs experiments to confirm the theory of atmospheric pressure and the existence of a vacuum. | ||
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||1846: Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette. | ||1846: Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette. | ||
File: | File:Scrimshaw Abuse - Men hunting sea monsters for scrimshaw-grade tusk.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1851: Sailors hunting sea monsters for scrimshaw-grade tusk fall prey to '''[[Scrimshaw abuse]]''' while yet in longboats; they never return to the whaling ship ''Queepod'', but are later rescued by Scrimshaw-dependency naval medical personnel and transferred to the Bethesda Naval Scrimshaw Recovery Center. | ||
||1865: Carl Erich Correns born ... botanist and geneticist, who is notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, and for his rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's earlier paper on that subject, which he achieved simultaneously but independently of other researchers. Pic. | ||1865: Carl Erich Correns born ... botanist and geneticist, who is notable primarily for his independent discovery of the principles of heredity, and for his rediscovery of Gregor Mendel's earlier paper on that subject, which he achieved simultaneously but independently of other researchers. Pic. | ||
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||1908: Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf born ... theoretical physicist. During World War II he was Group Leader of the Theoretical Division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Pic. | ||1908: Victor Frederick "Viki" Weisskopf born ... theoretical physicist. During World War II he was Group Leader of the Theoretical Division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, and later campaigned against the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Pic. | ||
||1914: Ky Fan born ... mathematician. | ||1914: Ky Fan born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1915: Elizabeth Stern born ... one of the first pathologists to work on the progression of a cell from normality to cancerous. Her breakthrough studies of cervical cancers have changed the disease from fatal to one of the most easily diagnosed and treatable. Her studies showed that a normal cell advanced through 250 distinct stages before becoming cancerous and thus is the most easily diagnosed of all cancers. She was the first to linking a virus in herpes simplex to cervical cancer. She was also the first to report the linkage between oral contraceptives and cervical cancer. Pic: https://www.biography.com/people/elizabeth-stern-38623 | ||1915: Elizabeth Stern born ... one of the first pathologists to work on the progression of a cell from normality to cancerous. Her breakthrough studies of cervical cancers have changed the disease from fatal to one of the most easily diagnosed and treatable. Her studies showed that a normal cell advanced through 250 distinct stages before becoming cancerous and thus is the most easily diagnosed of all cancers. She was the first to linking a virus in herpes simplex to cervical cancer. She was also the first to report the linkage between oral contraceptives and cervical cancer. Pic: https://www.biography.com/people/elizabeth-stern-38623 | ||
||1917: Kai Lai Chung born ... mathematician known for his significant contributions to modern probability theory. Pic. | ||1917: Kai Lai Chung born ... mathematician known for his significant contributions to modern probability theory. Pic. | ||
File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1922: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] defeats Joseph Stalin in three-round bare-knuckle boxing match. | File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1922: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] defeats Joseph Stalin in three-round bare-knuckle boxing match. | ||
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||1940: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz to smuggle out information and start a resistance. | ||1940: Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz to smuggle out information and start a resistance. | ||
||1943: Hans-Thilo Schmidt dies ... codenamed Asché or Source D, was a spy who, during the 1930s, sold secrets about the Germans' Enigma machine to the French. The materials he provided facilitated Polish mathematician Marian Rejewski's reconstruction of the wiring in the Enigma's rotors and reflector; thereafter the Poles were able to read a large proportion of Enigma-enciphered traffic. Pic. | |||
File:Plumbbob Rainier dust.jpg|link=Plumbbob Rainier (nonfiction)|1957: The US military detonates the [[Plumbbob Rainier (nonfiction)|Plumbbob Rainier]] nuclear weapon at the Nevada Test Site. Plumbbob Rainier is the first American underground nuclear bomb test. | File:Plumbbob Rainier dust.jpg|link=Plumbbob Rainier (nonfiction)|1957: The US military detonates the [[Plumbbob Rainier (nonfiction)|Plumbbob Rainier]] nuclear weapon at the Nevada Test Site. Plumbbob Rainier is the first American underground nuclear bomb test. | ||
||1963: Caroonist David Low dies ... political cartoonist and caricaturist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom for many years. Low was a self-taught cartoonist. Born in New Zealand, he worked in his native country before migrating to Sydney in 1911, and ultimately to London (1919), where he made his career and earned fame for his Colonel Blimp depictions and his merciless satirising of the personalities and policies of German dictator Adolf Hitler, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, and other leaders of his times. Pic. | |||
||1968: Chester Carlson dies ... physicist and lawyer. | ||1968: Chester Carlson dies ... physicist and lawyer. | ||
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||2010:: Joseph Kruskal dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Joseph-Kruskal | ||2010:: Joseph Kruskal dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Joseph-Kruskal | ||
||2013: Mary Jean Harrold dies ... computer scientist and academic. Pic search | ||2013: Mary Jean Harrold dies ... computer scientist and academic. Pic search. | ||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' credits scientist and engineer [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (nonfiction)|Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]] for "inspiring generations of astronauts." | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' credits scientist and engineer [[Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (nonfiction)|Konstantin Tsiolkovsky]] for "inspiring generations of astronauts." | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:02, 7 February 2022
1648: Blaise Pascal performs experiments to confirm the theory of atmospheric pressure and the existence of a vacuum.
1710: Astronomer and instrument maker Ole Rømer dies. He made the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
1749: Mathematician and astronomer Jean Baptiste Joseph Delambre born. He will be one of the first astronomers to derive astronomical equations from analytical formulas.
1761: Mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher Pieter van Musschenbroek dies. He invented the first capacitor in 1746: the Leyden jar.
1811: Mathematician and religious leader Orson Pratt born. As part of his system of Mormon theology, Pratt will embrace the philosophical doctrine of hylozoism.
1851: Sailors hunting sea monsters for scrimshaw-grade tusk fall prey to Scrimshaw abuse while yet in longboats; they never return to the whaling ship Queepod, but are later rescued by Scrimshaw-dependency naval medical personnel and transferred to the Bethesda Naval Scrimshaw Recovery Center.
1894: Mathematician Giuseppe Peano writes to Felix Klein, "The purpose of mathematical logic is to analyze the ideas and reasoning that especially figure in the mathematical sciences."
1922: "Fightin'" Bert Russell defeats Joseph Stalin in three-round bare-knuckle boxing match.
1935: Scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky dies. He was one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry and astronautics.
1957: The US military detonates the Plumbbob Rainier nuclear weapon at the Nevada Test Site. Plumbbob Rainier is the first American underground nuclear bomb test.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars credits scientist and engineer Konstantin Tsiolkovsky for "inspiring generations of astronauts."