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||1565: Lodovico Ferrari dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search (dubious): https://www.google.com/search?q=lodovico+ferrari | |||
File:Paolo Sarpi.jpg|link=Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|1607: Assassins sent by Pope Paul V attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist [[Paolo Sarpi (nonfiction)|Paolo Sarpi]], who survives fifteen stiletto thrusts. | |||
File:Denis Diderot by van Loo.jpg|link=Denis Diderot (nonfiction)|1713: Philosopher, art critic, and writer [[Denis Diderot (nonfiction)|Denis Diderot]] born. He will be a prominent figure during the Enlightenment, serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the ''Encyclopédie'' along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert. | |||
||1740: Jean-Philippe Baratier dies ... astronomer and scholar. A noted child prodigy of the 18th century, he published eleven works and authored a great quantity of unpublished manuscripts. Pic (attended by Athena!). | |||
File:Maria Gaetana Agnesi engraving.jpg|link=Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|1750: [[Maria Gaetana Agnesi (nonfiction)|Maria Gaetana Agnesi]] receives a response from Pope Benedict XIV on the publication of her book, ''Instituzioni Analitiche'', a two volume presentation covering algebra, calculus and differential equations. The pope will send her a gold medal and a wreath laid with precious stones, and name her honorary professor at the University of Bologna. | |||
||1777: Johann Andreas Segner dies ... mathematician, physicist, and physician. Pic. | |||
||1781: Bernard Bolzano born ... mathematician and philosopher ... logician, philosopher, theologian and Catholic priest ... known for his antimilitarist views. Pic. | |||
||1804: Robert Parker Parrott born ... American soldier and inventor of military ordnance. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Robert+Parker+Parrott | |||
||1861: Thomas Little Heath born ... civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator, and mountaineer. He was educated at Clifton College. Heath translated works of Euclid of Alexandria, Apollonius of Perga, Aristarchus of Samos, and Archimedes of Syracuse into English. Pic: http://faculty.etsu.edu/gardnerr/geometry-history/heiberg-heath.htm | |||
||1869: During construction, the Hennepin Island tunnel has a limestone cap breached and the rushing water breaks large chunks of land away and the St. Anthony Falls are nearly destroyed. | |||
||1877: Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner born ... engineer and a pioneer of sound-on-film technology. Pic. | |||
||1880: William Lassell dies ... merchant and astronomer. He is remembered for his improvements to the reflecting telescope and his ensuing discoveries of four planetary satellites. Pic. | |||
||1882: Robert H. Goddard born ... physicist, engineer, and academic. Pic. | |||
||1889: Dirk Coster born ... physicist. He is known as the co-discoverer of Hafnium (Hf) (element 72) in 1923, along with George de Hevesy, by means of X-ray spectroscopic analysis of zirconium ore. Pic. | |||
||1898: Philip Franklin born ... mathematician and professor whose work was primarily focused in analysis. Pic: https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/philip-franklin/ | |||
||1899: Elda Anderson born ... physicist and health researcher. She worked on the Manhattan Project at Princeton University and the Los Alamos Laboratory, where she prepared the first sample of pure uranium-235 at the laboratory. Pic. | |||
||1903: M. King Hubbert born ... geophysicist and academic. | |||
||1905: Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908. | |||
File:Nathan Jacobson.jpg|link=Nathan Jacobson (nonfiction)|1910: Mathematician [[Nathan Jacobson (nonfiction)|Nathan Jacobson]] born. He will conduct research on the structure theory of rings without finiteness conditions--a subject closely related to the theory of algebras--which will transform the approach to classical results and break ground for solutions to problems inaccessible by previous methods. | |||
||1921: The 1921 World Series is the first to be broadcast on radio. | |||
||1922: Bil Keane dies ... cartoonist ... most notable for his work on the newspaper comic The Family Circus. It began in 1960 and continues in syndication, drawn by his son Jeff Keane. Pic. | |||
||1930: Reinhard Selten born ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. | |||
||1930: British airship R101 crashes in France en route to India on its maiden voyage. | |||
||1942: Dorothea Klumpke dies ... astronomer. Pic. | |||
||1947: The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman. | |||
||1966: Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor. | |||
||1972: Solomon Lefschetz dies ... mathematician who did fundamental work on algebraic topology, its applications to algebraic geometry, and the theory of non-linear ordinary differential equations. | |||
||1976: Lars Onsager dies ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: The [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] orbiter primary mission ends at the beginning of solar conjunction. The extended mission will commence on 14 December 1976 after solar conjunction. | |||
File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] dies. He worked on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences. | File:Karl Menger 1970.jpg|link=Karl Menger (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician [[Karl Menger (nonfiction)|Karl Menger]] dies. He worked on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences. | ||
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File:Harald Cramér.jpg|link=Harald Cramér (nonfiction)|1985: Mathematician and statistician [[Harald Cramér (nonfiction)|Harald Cramér]] dies. He helped found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations." | |||
||1985: Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim dies ... theoretical physicist. Pic. | |||
||1986: Israeli secret nuclear weapons are revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its front page under the headline: "Revealed — the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal". | |||
||1986: James H. Wilkinson dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=James+H.+Wilkinson | |||
||1996: Seymour Cray dies ... engineer and businessman, founded CRAY Inc. | |||
||2004: William H. Dobelle dies ... biologist and academic ... sight restoration. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=William+H.+Dobelle | |||
||2004: Maurice Wilkins dies ... physicist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | |||
||2009: Israel Moiseevich Gelfand dies ... Soviet mathematician. Pic. | |||
||2017: Myles Tierney dies ... mathematician. He founded the theory of elementary toposes with William Lawvere. Birth date unknown. Pic: https://www.math.rutgers.edu/for-alumni-friends/in-memoriam | |||
File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] orbiter's primary mission, at the beginning of the solar conjunction. | |||
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Latest revision as of 13:17, 7 February 2022
1607: Assassins sent by Pope Paul V attempt to kill Venetian statesman and scientist Paolo Sarpi, who survives fifteen stiletto thrusts.
1713: Philosopher, art critic, and writer Denis Diderot born. He will be a prominent figure during the Enlightenment, serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d'Alembert.
1750: Maria Gaetana Agnesi receives a response from Pope Benedict XIV on the publication of her book, Instituzioni Analitiche, a two volume presentation covering algebra, calculus and differential equations. The pope will send her a gold medal and a wreath laid with precious stones, and name her honorary professor at the University of Bologna.
1910: Mathematician Nathan Jacobson born. He will conduct research on the structure theory of rings without finiteness conditions--a subject closely related to the theory of algebras--which will transform the approach to classical results and break ground for solutions to problems inaccessible by previous methods.
1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 orbiter primary mission ends at the beginning of solar conjunction. The extended mission will commence on 14 December 1976 after solar conjunction.
1985: Mathematician Karl Menger dies. He worked on mathematics of algebras, algebra of geometries, curve and dimension theory, game theory, and social sciences.
1985: Mathematician and statistician Harald Cramér dies. He helped found probability theory as a branch of mathematics, writing in 1926: "The probability concept should be introduced by a purely mathematical definition, from which its fundamental properties and the classical theorems are deduced by purely mathematical operations."
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the end of the Viking 2 orbiter's primary mission, at the beginning of the solar conjunction.