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||1697: Stefano degli Angeli dies ... mathematician, philosopher, and Jesuat. Pic: book cover. | |||
||1705: Guillaume Amontons dies ... physicist and instrument maker. Pic. | |||
File:Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.jpg|link=Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|1708: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher [[Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus]] dies. He invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation. | File:Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus.jpg|link=Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|1708: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher [[Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus (nonfiction)|Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus]] dies. He invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation. | ||
||1745: Ewald Georg von Kleist invents the Kleister jar (later known as the Leyden jar), which stores and discharges electricity. Pic. | |||
||1758: Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers born ... physician and astronomer. Pic. | |||
||1809: Along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee, explorer Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances at an inn called Grinder's Stand. Pic. | |||
||1811: Inventor John Stevens' boat, the ''Juliana'', begins operation as the first steam-powered ferry (service between New York City, New York, and Hoboken, New Jersey). Pic: https://www.google.com/search?q=steam+powered+juliana | |||
||1851: Paul Erman dies ... physicist and academic ... His work was mainly concerned with electricity and magnetism, though he also made some contributions to optics and physiology. Pic. | |||
||1852: Gotthold Eisenstein dies ... mathematician and academic ... specialized in number theory and analysis, and proved several results that eluded even Gauss. Pic. | |||
||1883: Édouard Chatton born ... biologist who first characterized the distinction between the eukaryotic and prokaryotic systems of cellular organization. Pic. | |||
||1866: Johannes Petrus Kuenen born ... physicist. He discovered retrograde condensation and published his findings in 1892 in the Ph.D. thesis with the title "Metingen betreffende het oppervlak van Van der Waals voor mengsels van koolzuur en chloormethyl". (Measurements on the Van der Waals surface for mixtures of carbonic acid and methyl chloride). He performed early experiments with x-rays with the physiologist Edward Waymouth Reid. Pic. | |||
||1884: Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius born ... chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1931, together with Carl Bosch) in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods. Pic. | |||
||1885: Alfréd Haar born ... mathematician. The Haar measure, Haar wavelet, and Haar transform are named in his honor. Pic. | |||
||1887: Patent #371,496 issued for the "comptometer," the first adding machine "absolutely accurate at all times." It was invented by Dorr E. Felt of Chicago; a model was constructed in 1884. Pic. | |||
File:James Prescott Joule.jpg|link=James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|1889: Physicist and brewer [[James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|James Prescott Joule]] dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work. | File:James Prescott Joule.jpg|link=James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|1889: Physicist and brewer [[James Prescott Joule (nonfiction)|James Prescott Joule]] dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work. | ||
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||1903: Kazimierz Kordylewski born ... was a Polish astronomer. In 1956 he claimed the discovery of the Kordylewski clouds which are believed to be large transient concentrations of dust at the Trojan points of the Earth-Moon system. The existence of the clouds is still contested. Pic. | |||
||1909: Ronald Richter born ... scientist who became infamous in connection with the Argentine Huemul Project and the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA). The project was intended to generate energy from nuclear fusion. Pic. | |||
||1910: Cahit Arf born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | |||
||1910: Former President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert–St. Louis International Airport), St. Louis, Missouri. Pic. | |||
||1916: Robert Marshak born ... American physicist dedicated to learning, research, and education. Pic. | |||
||1923: Harish-Chandra born ... mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups. Pic. | |||
File:Anne Penfold Street.jpg|link=Anne Penfold Street (nonfiction)|1932: Mathematician [[Anne Penfold Street (nonfiction)|Anne Penfold Street]] born. She will specialize in combinatorics, authoring several textbooks; her work on sum-free sets will become a standard reference for its subject matter. | |||
File:Vito Volterra.jpg|link=Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|1940: Mathematician and physicist [[Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|Vito Volterra]] dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations. | File:Vito Volterra.jpg|link=Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|1940: Mathematician and physicist [[Vito Volterra (nonfiction)|Vito Volterra]] dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations. | ||
File:Dorothea Lange 1936.jpg|link=Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|1965: Documentary | |||
File: | ||1948: Mathematicin André Bloch dies. He made fundamental contributions to complex analysis, including Bloch's theorem, which asserts the existence of certain absolute constant (the Bloch constant). Bloch was institutionalized in a mental asylum for thirty-one years of his life, during which all of his mathematical output was produced. Pic search. | ||
||1950: Television: CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. | |||
||1954: Theodore Lyman dies ... physicist and spectroscopist. He will make important studies in phenomena connected with diffraction gratings, on the wavelengths of vacuum ultraviolet light discovered by Victor Schumann and also on the properties of light of extremely short wavelength, on all of which he contributed valuable papers to the literature of physics in the proceedings of scientific societies. Pic. | |||
||1957: Space Race: M.I.T. scientists calculate Sputnik 1's booster rocket's orbit. | |||
||1958: Pioneer program: NASA launches the lunar probe Pioneer 1 (the probe falls back to Earth and burns up). | |||
File:Dorothea Lange 1936.jpg|link=Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|1965: Documentary photographer and photojournalist [[Dorothea Lange (nonfiction)|Dorothea Lange]] dies. Lange is remembered for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Her photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression. | |||
||1967: Berend George Escher dies ... geologist. Pic. | |||
||1968: Guido Kark Heinrich Hoheisel dies ... mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1968: Gilles Holst dies ... physicist, known worldwide for his invention in 1932 of the low-pressure sodium lamp. Pic: http://www.biografischportaal.nl/en/persoon/02090115 | |||
||1968: Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard. | |||
||1984: Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk. | |||
||1990: Jules Guéron ... physical chemist and atomic scientist who played a key role in the development of atomic energy in France. Pic. | |||
||1996: Lars Valerian Ahlfors dies ... mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. Pic. | |||
File:Edwin_Henry_Spanier_(1986).jpg|link=Edwin Spanier (nonfiction)|1996: Mathematician and acadaemic [[Edwin Spanier (nonfiction)|Edwin Spanier]] dies. Spanier contributed to algebraic topology, co-inventing Spanier–Whitehead duality and Alexander–Spanier cohomology; he also wrote what was for a long time the standard textbook on algebraic topology. | |||
||1996: Rolf Widerøe dies ... accelerator physicist who was the originator of many particle acceleration concepts, including the resonance accelerator and the betatron accelerator. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Rolf-Wider%C3%B8e | |||
||2001: The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection. | |||
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1708: Mathematician, physicist, physician, and philosopher Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus dies. He invented the Tschirnhaus transformation, by which certain intermediate terms are removed from a given algebraic equation.
1889: Physicist and brewer James Prescott Joule dies. He studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.
1932: Mathematician Anne Penfold Street born. She will specialize in combinatorics, authoring several textbooks; her work on sum-free sets will become a standard reference for its subject matter.
1940: Mathematician and physicist Vito Volterra dies. He was one of the founders of functional analysis, making contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations.
1965: Documentary photographer and photojournalist Dorothea Lange dies. Lange is remembered for her Depression-era work for the Farm Security Administration (FSA). Her photographs influenced the development of documentary photography and humanized the consequences of the Great Depression.
1996: Mathematician and acadaemic Edwin Spanier dies. Spanier contributed to algebraic topology, co-inventing Spanier–Whitehead duality and Alexander–Spanier cohomology; he also wrote what was for a long time the standard textbook on algebraic topology.