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||1568: Marino Ghetaldi born ... scientist. A mathematician and physicist who studied in Italy, England and Belgium, his best results are mainly in physics, especially optics, and mathematics. Pic. | ||1568: Marino Ghetaldi born ... scientist. A mathematician and physicist who studied in Italy, England and Belgium, his best results are mainly in physics, especially optics, and mathematics. Pic. | ||
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File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1667: Mathematician and physicist [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] becomes a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had earned his bachelor's degree in 1665 and then spent two years at home in Lincolnshire inventing much of differential and integral calculus while Cambridge was closed due to plague. | File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1667: Mathematician and physicist [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]] becomes a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had earned his bachelor's degree in 1665 and then spent two years at home in Lincolnshire inventing much of differential and integral calculus while Cambridge was closed due to plague. | ||
||1745: Isaac Greenwood dies ... first Hollisian Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard College. During his tenure, he wrote anonymously the first natively-published American book on mathematics – the Greenwood Book, published in 1729. Pic search | ||1745: Isaac Greenwood dies ... first Hollisian Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at Harvard College. During his tenure, he wrote anonymously the first natively-published American book on mathematics – the Greenwood Book, published in 1729. Pic search. | ||
||1804: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot dies ... engineer. | ||1804: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot dies ... engineer. Pic. | ||
||1826: Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann born ... physicist known mostly for his literary work. Pic. | ||1826: Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann born ... physicist known mostly for his literary work. Pic. | ||
||1852: William Ramsay born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1852: William Ramsay born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
File:François Arago.jpg|link=François Arago (nonfiction)|1853: Mathematician and politician [[François Arago (nonfiction)|François Arago]] born. He observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect now known as eddy current. | File:François Arago.jpg|link=François Arago (nonfiction)|1853: Mathematician and politician [[François Arago (nonfiction)|François Arago]] born. He observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect now known as eddy current. | ||
|| | ||1854: Patrick Geddes born ... biologist, sociologist, geographer, and philanthropist. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1883: Karl von Terzaghi born ... geologist and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1886: Astronomer Robert Julius Trumpler born. He will observe that the brightness of the more distant open clusters is lower than expected, and the stars appear more red, a phenomenon caused by interstellar dust absorbing interstellar light. Pic. | |||
||1901: Rudolph Koenig dies ... physicist and academic. He was a pioneer of acoustical physics and engineering; his Koenig sound analyzer revolutionized musical and scientific worlds by demonstrated visually that musical notes and voices were in fact made up of simple sounds. Pic. | ||1901: Rudolph Koenig dies ... physicist and academic. He was a pioneer of acoustical physics and engineering; his Koenig sound analyzer revolutionized musical and scientific worlds by demonstrated visually that musical notes and voices were in fact made up of simple sounds. Pic. | ||
||1901: Charles Stark Draper born ... scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA. Pic search | ||1901: Charles Stark Draper born ... scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA. Pic search. | ||
||1906: Willy | ||1906: Willy Ley born ... science writer, spaceflight advocate, and historian of science who helped to popularize rocketry, spaceflight, and natural history in both Germany and the United States. Pic. | ||
||1907: Alexander R. Todd born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1907: Alexander R. Todd born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1909: Alex Raymond born ... cartoonist, creator of Flash Gordon. | ||1909: Alex Raymond born ... cartoonist, creator of Flash Gordon. Pic. | ||
||1914: Jack Parsons born ... chemist, occultist, and engineer. Pic. | ||1914: Jack Parsons born ... chemist, occultist, and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1916: Leonard C. Lewin born ... writer, best known as the author of the bestseller ''The Report from Iron Mountain'' (1967). No pics | ||1916: Leonard C. Lewin born ... writer, best known as the author of the bestseller ''The Report from Iron Mountain'' (1967). No pics? | ||
||1917: Christian de Duve born ... cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1917: Christian de Duve born ... cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1921: Albert Scott Crossfield born ... pilot and engineer. | ||1921: Albert Scott Crossfield born ... pilot and engineer. Pic. | ||
File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] performs the first test of a working television system. | File:John Logie Baird 1917.jpg|link=John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|1925: [[John Logie Baird (nonfiction)|John Logie Baird]] performs the first test of a working television system. | ||
||1926: Michio Suzuki born ... mathematician who studied group theory. Pic search | ||1926: Michio Suzuki born ... mathematician who studied group theory. Pic search. | ||
||1927: Svante Arrhenius born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1927: Svante Arrhenius born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1933: John Gurdon born ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1933: John Gurdon born ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. (Alive October 2020.) | ||
||1947: P. D. Ouspensky dies ... mathematician and philosopher. | ||1947: P. D. Ouspensky dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1950: Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published. | ||1950: Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published. | ||
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File:ENIAC.jpg|link=ENIAC (nonfiction)|1955: [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] retired. After disassembly, parts of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first general purpose electronic computer, were shipped to the Smithsonian for display. | File:ENIAC.jpg|link=ENIAC (nonfiction)|1955: [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] retired. After disassembly, parts of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first general purpose electronic computer, were shipped to the Smithsonian for display. | ||
||1959: The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television | ||1959: The anthology series ''The Twilight Zone'' premieres on CBS television. | ||
||1962: Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev dies ... mathematician and author. Pic. | |||
||1967: Hans | ||1967: Hans Reissner dies ... aeronautical engineer whose avocation was mathematical physics. He solved Einstein's equation for the metric of a charged point mass. His Reissner–Nordström metric demonstrated that an electron has a naked singularity rather that an event horizon. Pic. | ||
||1977: Beniamino Segre dies ... mathematician who is remembered today as a major contributor to algebraic geometry and one of the founders of finite geometry. Pic. | ||1977: Beniamino Segre dies ... mathematician who is remembered today as a major contributor to algebraic geometry and one of the founders of finite geometry. Pic. | ||
||1990: Géza Ottlik dies ... mathematician and bridge theorist. His 1979 book ''Adventures in Card Play'', written with Hugh Kelsey, introduced and developed new concepts (such as Backwash squeeze and Entry-shifting squeeze). Pic search | ||1990: Géza Ottlik dies ... mathematician and bridge theorist. His 1979 book ''Adventures in Card Play'', written with Hugh Kelsey, introduced and developed new concepts (such as Backwash squeeze and Entry-shifting squeeze). Pic search. | ||
||1996: The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton. | ||1996: The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton. | ||
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File:Paul Halmos.jpg|link=Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|Paul Halmos]] dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces). | File:Paul Halmos.jpg|link=Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|2006: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Halmos (nonfiction)|Paul Halmos]] dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces). | ||
||2009: Shaun Wylie dies ... mathematician and World War II codebreaker. Pic. | ||2009: Shaun Wylie dies ... mathematician and World War II codebreaker. Pic. | ||
||2013: Abraham Nemeth dies ... mathematician, academic, and inventor. Nemeth was blind, and was known for developing a system for blind people to read and write mathematics. Pic | ||2013: Abraham Nemeth dies ... mathematician, academic, and inventor. Nemeth was blind, and was known for developing a system for blind people to read and write mathematics. Pic search. | ||
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1588: Philosopher and scientist Bernardino Telesio dies. While his natural theories were later disproven, his emphasis on observation influenced the emergence of the scientific method.
1667: Mathematician and physicist Isaac Newton becomes a fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge. He had earned his bachelor's degree in 1665 and then spent two years at home in Lincolnshire inventing much of differential and integral calculus while Cambridge was closed due to plague.
1853: Mathematician and politician François Arago born. He observed that a rotating plate of copper tends to communicate its motion to a magnetic needle suspended over it, an effect now known as eddy current.
1925: John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
1955: ENIAC retired. After disassembly, parts of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first general purpose electronic computer, were shipped to the Smithsonian for display.
2006: Mathematician and academic Paul Halmos dies. He made fundamental advances in the areas of mathematical logic, probability theory, statistics, operator theory, ergodic theory, and functional analysis (in particular, Hilbert spaces).