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|| *** THEME: Willis Carrier and Clarence Birdseye die *** | |||
||1601: Florimond de Beaune born ... jurist and mathematician. In a 1638 letter to Descartes, de Beaune described the first example of the inverse tangent method of deducing properties of a curve from its tangents. Pic, book cover: http://www.librairiedesmaths.com/site/ficprod.asp?IDProduit=1887 | ||1601: Florimond de Beaune born ... jurist and mathematician. In a 1638 letter to Descartes, de Beaune described the first example of the inverse tangent method of deducing properties of a curve from its tangents. Pic, book cover: http://www.librairiedesmaths.com/site/ficprod.asp?IDProduit=1887 | ||
File:Montmort - Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, 1713.jpg|link=Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|1719: Mathematician [[Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|Pierre Raymond de Montmort]] dies. He wrote ''Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard'', an influential book about probability and games of chance which introduced the combinatorial study of [[Derangement (nonfiction)|derangements]]. | File:Montmort - Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, 1713.jpg|link=Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|1719: Mathematician [[Pierre Raymond de Montmort (nonfiction)|Pierre Raymond de Montmort]] dies. He wrote ''Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard'', an influential book about probability and games of chance which introduced the combinatorial study of [[Derangement (nonfiction)|derangements]]. | ||
||1877: Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg born ... mathematician and educator. | ||1877: Ole Michael Ludvigsen Selberg born ... mathematician and educator. Pic. | ||
File:Thomas Reid.jpg|link=Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|1796: Mathematician and philosopher [[Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|Thomas Reid]] dies. Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of ''sensus communis'') is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry, justifying our belief that there is an external world. | File:Thomas Reid.jpg|link=Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|1796: Mathematician and philosopher [[Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|Thomas Reid]] dies. Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of ''sensus communis'') is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry, justifying our belief that there is an external world. | ||
||1798: Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume born ... instrument maker and businessman. Pic. | |||
||1798: Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume born ... instrument maker and businessman. | |||
||1847: Alexandre Brongniart dies ... chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris. Pic. | ||1847: Alexandre Brongniart dies ... chemist, mineralogist, and zoologist, who collaborated with Georges Cuvier on a study of the geology of the region around Paris. Pic. | ||
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||1894: Oliver Wendell Holmes dies ... physician and writer was best-known as an essayist-poet, but in medicine was famous for his 1843 article 'The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever,' concerning the high mortality of women giving birth in hospitals. He asserted that the infection was carried from patient to patient by physicians and nurses. Because that defied the conventional wisdom, he received abuse from the obstetricians of the time. (A few years later, Ignaz Semmelweiss demonstrated the importance of hand-washing and hygiene. Before them, John Burton in 1751, and Charles White in 1773 had suspected the role of medical attendants.) Holmes coined the term “anesthesia,” from Greek words meaning “no feeling”. He was the father of the Supreme Court judge of the same name. Born. | ||1894: Oliver Wendell Holmes dies ... physician and writer was best-known as an essayist-poet, but in medicine was famous for his 1843 article 'The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever,' concerning the high mortality of women giving birth in hospitals. He asserted that the infection was carried from patient to patient by physicians and nurses. Because that defied the conventional wisdom, he received abuse from the obstetricians of the time. (A few years later, Ignaz Semmelweiss demonstrated the importance of hand-washing and hygiene. Before them, John Burton in 1751, and Charles White in 1773 had suspected the role of medical attendants.) Holmes coined the term “anesthesia,” from Greek words meaning “no feeling”. He was the father of the Supreme Court judge of the same name. Born. | ||
||1899: Øystein Ore born ... mathematician. | ||1899: Øystein Ore born ... mathematician ... known for his work in ring theory, Galois connections, graph theory, and the history of mathematics. Pic. | ||
||1903: Rudolf Lipschitz dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||1903: Rudolf Lipschitz dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||1914: Isao Imai born ... theoretical physicist, known for fluid mechanics and mathematical physics. | ||1914: Isao Imai born ... theoretical physicist, known for fluid mechanics and mathematical physics. Pic. | ||
||1915: Friedrich Hasenöhrl dies ... physicist. Pic. | ||1915: Friedrich Hasenöhrl dies ... physicist. Pic. | ||
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||1939: Harold Walter Kroto born ... chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. Pic. | ||1939: Harold Walter Kroto born ... chemist. He shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of fullerenes. Pic. | ||
||1950: Willis | ||1950: Willis Carrier dies ... American engineer, invented air conditioning. Pic. | ||
||1956: Clarence Birdseye dies ... | ||1956: Clarence Birdseye dies ... inventor, entrepreneur, and naturalist, and is considered to be the founder of the modern frozen food industry. Pic. | ||
||1959: U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. | ||1959: U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. | ||
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||1963: John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. | ||1963: John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. | ||
||1993: Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov | ||1912: Martin Maximilian Emil Eichler dies ... number theorist. Eichler and Goro Shimura developed a method to construct elliptic curves from certain modular forms. The converse notion that every elliptic curve has a corresponding modular form would later be the key to the proof of Fermat's last theorem. Pic. | ||
||1993: Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov dies ... mathematician and geophysicist known for important contributions to topology, functional analysis, mathematical physics, and ill-posed problems. He was also one of the inventors of the magnetotellurics method in geophysics. Pic. | |||
||1995: Gérard de Vaucouleurs dies ... astronomer and academic. His specialty included reanalyzing Hubble and Sandage's galaxy atlas and recomputing the distance measurements utilizing a method of averaging many different kinds of metrics such as luminosity, the diameters of ring galaxies, brightest star clusters, etc., in a method he called "spreading the risks." Pic. | |||
File:Olga Taussky-Todd.jpg|link=Olga Taussky-Todd (nonfiction)|1995: Mathematician and academic [[Olga Taussky-Todd (nonfiction)|Olga Taussky-Todd]] dies. She contributed to matrix theory (in particular the computational stability of complex matrices), algebraic number theory, group theory, and numerical analysis. | |||
||2007: Asteroid 2008 TC3 falls to earth as a meteorite ... an 80-metric-ton (80-long-ton; 90-short-ton), 4.1-meter (13 ft) diameter asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere on October 7, 2008. It exploded at an estimated 37 kilometers (23 mi) above the Nubian Desert in Sudan. Some 600 meteorites, weighing a total of 10.5 kilograms (23.1 lb), were recovered; many of these belonged to a rare type known as ureilites, which contain, among other minerals, nanodiamonds. It was the first time that an asteroid impact had been predicted prior to its entry into the atmosphere as a meteor. Pic. | |||
||2008: George Emil Palade dies ... biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
File:2008 TC3 - estimated ground path and altitude.png|link=2008 TC3 (nonfiction)|2008: Asteroid [[2008 TC3 (nonfiction)|2008 TC3]] entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded at an estimated 37 kilometers (23 mi) above the Nubian Desert in Sudan. It was the first time that an asteroid impact had been predicted before its entry into the atmosphere as a meteor. | |||
||2009: Asteroid Themis-24: the presence of water ice was confirmed on the surface of this asteroid using NASA’s Infrared Telescope Facility. The surface of the asteroid appears completely covered in ice. As this ice layer is sublimated, it may be getting replenished by a reservoir of ice under the surface. Pic. | |||
|| | ||2011: Marc Voorhoeve dies ... mathematician who introduced the Voorhoeve index of a complex function in 1976. Pic: http://wwwis.win.tue.nl/~mvoorhoe/ | ||
File:Worcester Lunch Car Company (Research Division).jpg|link=Worcester Lunch Car Company (Research Division)|2017: The [[Worcester Lunch Car Company's Research Division]] demonstrates advanced [[Flying Diner]] technology, including a new dinner menu. | File:Worcester Lunch Car Company (Research Division).jpg|link=Worcester Lunch Car Company (Research Division)|2017: The [[Worcester Lunch Car Company's Research Division]] demonstrates advanced [[Flying Diner]] technology, including a new dinner menu. | ||
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Latest revision as of 13:18, 7 February 2022
1719: Mathematician Pierre Raymond de Montmort dies. He wrote Essay d'analyse sur les jeux de hazard, an influential book about probability and games of chance which introduced the combinatorial study of derangements.
1796: Mathematician and philosopher Thomas Reid dies. Reid believed that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of sensus communis) is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry, justifying our belief that there is an external world.
1885: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
1919: Computer scientist and academic Henriette Avram born. She will develope the MARC (Machine Readable Cataloging) format, the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries.
1995: Mathematician and academic Olga Taussky-Todd dies. She contributed to matrix theory (in particular the computational stability of complex matrices), algebraic number theory, group theory, and numerical analysis.
2008: Asteroid 2008 TC3 entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded at an estimated 37 kilometers (23 mi) above the Nubian Desert in Sudan. It was the first time that an asteroid impact had been predicted before its entry into the atmosphere as a meteor.
2017: The Worcester Lunch Car Company's Research Division demonstrates advanced Flying Diner technology, including a new dinner menu.