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||1596: Joan Blaeu born ... cartographer born in Alkmaar, the son of cartographer Willem Blaeu. Pic. | ||1596: Joan Blaeu born ... cartographer born in Alkmaar, the son of cartographer Willem Blaeu. Pic. | ||
||1623: Stefano degli Angeli dies ... mathematician, philosopher, and Jesuat. | ||1623: Stefano degli Angeli dies ... mathematician, philosopher, and Jesuat. Pic: book cover. | ||
||1738: Botanist, chemist, Christian humanist, and physician Herman Boerhaave dies. He is regarded as the founder of clinical teaching and of the modern academic hospital and is sometimes referred to as "the father of physiology." Pic. | |||
||1743: Erik Benzelius the younger dies ... priest, theologian, librarian, bishop of Linköping, 1731-1742 and Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden, 1742–1743. He was a highly learned man and one of Sweden's important Enlightenment figures. Pic. | |||
||1756: John Loudon McAdam born ... engineer and inventor of "macadamisation", an effective and economical method of constructing roads. Pic. | |||
||1773: Johan Ernst Gunnerus born ... bishop and botanist ... first to suggest Northern Lights caused by the sun. Pic. | ||1773: Johan Ernst Gunnerus born ... bishop and botanist ... first to suggest Northern Lights caused by the sun. Pic. | ||
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File:Georg Scheutz.jpg|link=Per Georg Scheutz (nonfiction)|1785: Lawyer, translator, and inventor [[Per Georg Scheutz (nonfiction)|Per Georg Scheutz]] born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine. | File:Georg Scheutz.jpg|link=Per Georg Scheutz (nonfiction)|1785: Lawyer, translator, and inventor [[Per Georg Scheutz (nonfiction)|Per Georg Scheutz]] born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine. | ||
||1791: Johann Franz Encke born ... astronomer and academic ... he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the earth to the sun, and made observations of the planet Saturn. | ||1791: Johann Franz Encke born ... astronomer and academic ... he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the earth to the sun, and made observations of the planet Saturn. Pic. | ||
||1819: Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau born ... physicist and academic ... best known for measuring the speed of light in the namesake Fizeau experiment. | ||1819: Armand Hippolyte Louis Fizeau born ... physicist and academic ... best known for measuring the speed of light in the namesake Fizeau experiment. Pic. | ||
||1846: Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune. | ||1846: Astronomers Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier, John Couch Adams and Johann Gottfried Galle collaborate on the discovery of Neptune. | ||
||1849: Hugo von Seeliger born ... astronomer, often considered the most important astronomer of his day. | ||1849: Hugo von Seeliger born ... astronomer, often considered the most important astronomer of his day. Pic. | ||
||1851: Ellen Hayes born ... mathematician and astronomer. | ||1851: Ellen Hayes born ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic. | ||
||1854: Charles Soret born ... physicist and chemist. He is known for his work on thermodiffusion (the so-called Soret effect). | ||1854: Charles Soret born ... physicist and chemist. He is known for his work on thermodiffusion (the so-called Soret effect). Pic. | ||
||1861: Robert Bosch born ... engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH. Pic. | |||
File:Urbain Le Verrier.jpg|link=Urbain Le Verrier (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and astronomer [[Urbain Le Verrier (nonfiction)|Urbain Le Verrier]] dies. He predicted the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics, an event widely regarded as one of the most remarkable moments of 19th century science. | File:Urbain Le Verrier.jpg|link=Urbain Le Verrier (nonfiction)|1877: Mathematician and astronomer [[Urbain Le Verrier (nonfiction)|Urbain Le Verrier]] dies. He predicted the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics, an event widely regarded as one of the most remarkable moments of 19th century science. | ||
||1882: Friedrich Wöhler dies ... chemist, best known for his synthesis of urea, but also the first to isolate several chemical elements. Pic. | |||
||1882: Friedrich Wöhler dies ... chemist, best known for his synthesis of urea, but also the first to isolate several chemical elements. | |||
File:Herman Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1884: Patent filed for [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]]'s tabulating machine. Hollerith's machines will be used in the 1890 US Census and in 1924 he and others will form the company that will become IBM. | File:Herman Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1884: Patent filed for [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]]'s tabulating machine. Hollerith's machines will be used in the 1890 US Census and in 1924 he and others will form the company that will become IBM. | ||
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||1885: Nicolas Minorsky born ... control theory mathematician, engineer and applied scientist. He is best known for his theoretical analysis and first proposed application of PID controllers in the automatic steering systems for U.S. Navy ships. Pic. | ||1885: Nicolas Minorsky born ... control theory mathematician, engineer and applied scientist. He is best known for his theoretical analysis and first proposed application of PID controllers in the automatic steering systems for U.S. Navy ships. Pic. | ||
||1902: Su Buqing born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1893: Thomas Hawksley dies ... engineer and academic ... early water supply and coal gas engineering projects. Pic. | ||
||1902: Su Buqing born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search yes. | |||
||1910: Lamberto Cesari born ... mathematician naturalized in the United States, known for his work on the theory of surface area, the theory of functions of bounded variation, the theory of optimal control and on the stability theory of dynamical systems: in particular, by extending the concept of Tonelli plane variation, he succeeded in introducing the class of functions of bounded variation of several variables in its full generality. | ||1902: John Wesley Powell dies ... soldier, geologist, and explorer. Pic. | ||
||1910: Lamberto Cesari born ... mathematician naturalized in the United States, known for his work on the theory of surface area, the theory of functions of bounded variation, the theory of optimal control and on the stability theory of dynamical systems: in particular, by extending the concept of Tonelli plane variation, he succeeded in introducing the class of functions of bounded variation of several variables in its full generality. Pic. | |||
File:Clifford Shull 1949.jpg|link=Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|1915: Physicist and academic [[Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|Clifford Shull]] born. He will share the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique. | File:Clifford Shull 1949.jpg|link=Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|1915: Physicist and academic [[Clifford Shull (nonfiction)|Clifford Shull]] born. He will share the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique. | ||
||1915: George Alfred Barnard born ... statistician known particularly for his work on the foundations of statistics and on quality control. Pic search. | |||
||1919: Ernst Heinrich Bruns dies ... German mathematician and astronomer, who also contributed to the development of the field of theoretical geodesy. Pic. | ||1919: Ernst Heinrich Bruns dies ... German mathematician and astronomer, who also contributed to the development of the field of theoretical geodesy. Pic. | ||
||1926: André Cassagnes born ... toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch. | ||1925: Engineer and inventor George Laurer born. He held 25 patents and developed the Universal Product Code (UPC) in 1973. He devised the coding and pattern used for the UPC, based on Joe Woodland's more general idea for barcodes. Pic. | ||
||1926: André Cassagnes born ... toy maker, created the Etch A Sketch. Pic search. | |||
||1926: Paul Kammerer dies ... biologist, he claimed to have produced experimental evidence that acquired traits could be inherited. Almost all of Kammerer's experiments involved forcing various amphibians to breed in environments that were radically different from their native habitat to demonstrate Lamarkian inheritance. (This is the idea that what one acquires during one's lifetime is passed on to that person's offspring. If you play guitar, your children will have nimble fingers. Each generation builds upon the past and continues to improve.) When later accused of faking exceptional results with the midwife toad, during a time of depression, he shot himself. Pic. | ||1926: Paul Kammerer dies ... biologist, he claimed to have produced experimental evidence that acquired traits could be inherited. Almost all of Kammerer's experiments involved forcing various amphibians to breed in environments that were radically different from their native habitat to demonstrate Lamarkian inheritance. (This is the idea that what one acquires during one's lifetime is passed on to that person's offspring. If you play guitar, your children will have nimble fingers. Each generation builds upon the past and continues to improve.) When later accused of faking exceptional results with the midwife toad, during a time of depression, he shot himself. Pic. | ||
||1929: Richard Adolf Zsigmondy dies ... chemist, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1929: Richard Adolf Zsigmondy dies ... chemist, physicist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1933: Lloyd | ||1933: Lloyd J. Old born ... one of the founders and standard-bearers of the field of cancer immunology. Pic. | ||
File:Maurice d'Ocagne.jpg|link=Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and engineer [[Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne]] dies. He founded the field of nomography, the graphic computation of algebraic equations, on charts which he called [[Nomogram (nonfiction)|nomograms]]. | File:Maurice d'Ocagne.jpg|link=Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and engineer [[Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne (nonfiction)|Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne]] dies. He founded the field of nomography, the graphic computation of algebraic equations, on charts which he called [[Nomogram (nonfiction)|nomograms]]. | ||
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||1946: Gennady Chibisov born ... cosmologist. He obtained his PhD in 1972, from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, with a thesis entitled "Entropy perturbations in cosmology". He is best known for his 1981 paper on the origin of cosmological density perturbations from quantum fluctuations, coauthored with Viatcheslav Mukhanov. This is the earliest of a number of calculations addressing the origin of density fluctuations in inflationary cosmology, which is the most common hypothesis for the origin of the expanding universe and the structure within it. Pic. | ||1946: Gennady Chibisov born ... cosmologist. He obtained his PhD in 1972, from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, with a thesis entitled "Entropy perturbations in cosmology". He is best known for his 1981 paper on the origin of cosmological density perturbations from quantum fluctuations, coauthored with Viatcheslav Mukhanov. This is the earliest of a number of calculations addressing the origin of density fluctuations in inflationary cosmology, which is the most common hypothesis for the origin of the expanding universe and the structure within it. Pic. | ||
||1971: James Waddell Alexander II dies ... mathematician and topologist. | ||1971: James Waddell Alexander II dies ... mathematician and topologist. Pic. | ||
||1972: President Ferdinand Marcos announced that he had placed the entirety of the Philippines under martial law. This marked the beginning of a 14-year period of one-man rule which would effectively last until Marcos was exiled from the country on February 24, 1986. Even though the formal document proclaiming martial law – Proclamation No. 1081, which was dated September 21, 1972 – was formally lifted on January 17, 1981, Marcos retained essentially all of his powers as dictator until he was ousted. Pic. | |||
||1974: Willem van der Woude dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1974: Willem van der Woude dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1983: Szolem Mandelbrojt dies ... mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis. Pic. | |||
||1999: NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter. | ||1999: NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter. | ||
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||2004: Bryce Seligman DeWitt dies ... theoretical physicist who studied gravity and field theories. Pic. | ||2004: Bryce Seligman DeWitt dies ... theoretical physicist who studied gravity and field theories. Pic. | ||
||2017: Lester Randolph Ford Jr. dies ... mathematician specializing in network flow problems. | ||2017: Lester Randolph Ford Jr. dies ... mathematician specializing in network flow problems. Pic search. | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:05, 7 February 2022
1785: Lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.
1877: Mathematician and astronomer Urbain Le Verrier dies. He predicted the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics, an event widely regarded as one of the most remarkable moments of 19th century science.
1884: Patent filed for Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine. Hollerith's machines will be used in the 1890 US Census and in 1924 he and others will form the company that will become IBM.
1915: Physicist and academic Clifford Shull born. He will share the 1994 Nobel Prize in Physics with Bertram Brockhouse for the development of the neutron scattering technique.
1938: Mathematician and engineer Philbert Maurice d’Ocagne dies. He founded the field of nomography, the graphic computation of algebraic equations, on charts which he called nomograms.