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File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1576: [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance. | File:Gerolamo Cardano.jpg|link=Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|1576: [[Gerolamo Cardano (nonfiction)|Gerolamo Cardano]] dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance. | ||
File:Joseph-Louis Lagrange.jpg|link=Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|1781: [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|Joseph-Louis Lagrange]] writes to d'Alembert: "It appears to me also that the mine [of mathematics] is already very deep and that unless one discovers new veins it will be necessary sooner or later to abandon it." This view is prevalent at the end of the eighteenth century. | File:Joseph-Louis Lagrange.jpg|link=Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|1781: [[Joseph-Louis Lagrange (nonfiction)|Joseph-Louis Lagrange]] writes to d'Alembert: "It appears to me also that the mine [of mathematics] is already very deep and that unless one discovers new veins it will be necessary sooner or later to abandon it." This view is prevalent at the end of the eighteenth century. | ||
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File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1853: Physicist and academic [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] born. He will receive widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, ''inter alia'', to the production of liquid helium". | File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1853: Physicist and academic [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] born. He will receive widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, ''inter alia'', to the production of liquid helium". | ||
||1860: Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao. | ||1860: Second Opium War: An Anglo-French force defeats Chinese troops at the Battle of Palikao. | ||
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||1926: Léon Charles Thévenin dies ... telegraph engineer ... He extended Ohm's law to the analysis of complex electrical circuits. Pic. | ||1926: Léon Charles Thévenin dies ... telegraph engineer ... He extended Ohm's law to the analysis of complex electrical circuits. Pic. | ||
||1926: Donald A. Glaser born ... physicist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1926: Donald A. Glaser born ... physicist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Bubble chamber. Pic. | ||
||1927: Yuri Andreevich Yappa born ... theoretical physicist. He is known for publications on particle physics, quantum field theory, General Relativity, philosophy of science, and for his graduate texts on classical electrodynamics and theory of spinors. Pic. | ||1927: Yuri Andreevich Yappa born ... theoretical physicist. He is known for publications on particle physics, quantum field theory, General Relativity, philosophy of science, and for his graduate texts on classical electrodynamics and theory of spinors. Pic. | ||
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||1942: The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight. | ||1942: The Boeing B-29 Superfortress makes its maiden flight. | ||
||1950: Edward Arthur Milne dies ... astrophysicist and mathematician. | ||1950: Edward Arthur Milne dies ... astrophysicist and mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1954: Mikimoto Kōkichi dies ... entrepreneur who is credited with creating the first cultured pearl and subsequently starting the cultured pearl industry with the establishment of his luxury pearl company Mikimoto. Pic. | ||1954: Mikimoto Kōkichi dies ... entrepreneur who is credited with creating the first cultured pearl and subsequently starting the cultured pearl industry with the establishment of his luxury pearl company Mikimoto. Pic. | ||
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||1996: Erika Cremer dies ... physical chemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Innsbruck who is regarded as one of the most important pioneer in gas chromatography. Pic. | ||1996: Erika Cremer dies ... physical chemist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Innsbruck who is regarded as one of the most important pioneer in gas chromatography. Pic. | ||
||2002: Robert L. Forward dies ... physicist and engineer. | ||2002: Robert L. Forward dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | ||
||2003: The Galileo Probe is terminated by sending it into Jupiter. | ||2003: The Galileo Probe is terminated by sending it into Jupiter. |
Latest revision as of 13:04, 7 February 2022
1576: Gerolamo Cardano dies. He was one of the most influential mathematicians of the Renaissance.
1781: Joseph-Louis Lagrange writes to d'Alembert: "It appears to me also that the mine [of mathematics] is already very deep and that unless one discovers new veins it will be necessary sooner or later to abandon it." This view is prevalent at the end of the eighteenth century.
1792: French Revolution: The National Convention declares France a republic and abolishes the absolute monarchy.
1853: Physicist and academic Heike Kamerlingh Onnes born. He will receive widespread recognition for his work, including the 1913 Nobel Prize in Physics for "his investigations on the properties of matter at low temperatures which led, inter alia, to the production of liquid helium".
2018: Signed first edition of Spiral used in high-energy literature experiments unexpectedly develops spontaneous artificial intelligence.