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||925: Rhazes dies ... polymath. Wik no DOB/DOD. Pic: https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101651472-img | |||
||1564: Andreas Vesalius dies ... anatomist, physician, and author. Pic. | |||
||1589: Jacopo Zabarella dies ... philosopher and logician. Zabarella's work reflects his teaching in the Aristotelian tradition; he devoted much effort to presenting what he considered to be the true meaning of Aristotle's texts. Pic search. | |||
File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1608: Physicist and mathematician [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] born. He will invent the barometer, make advances in optics, and work on the method of indivisibles. | |||
||1715: Humphry Ditton dies ... mathematician and philosopher. No pics online. | |||
||1745: George Atwood baptized ... mathematician who invented a machine for illustrating the effects of Newton's first law of motion. Pic search. | |||
||1763: Johann Georg Tralles dies ... mathematician and physicist. He discovered the Great Comet of 1819, also known as Comet Tralles in his honor. Pic search. | |||
||1783: The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon (tethered) makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. Pic. | |||
||1789: William Christopher Zeise born ... chemist who prepared Zeise's salt, one of the first organometallic compounds. Pic. | |||
||1815: Napoleon I of France begins his exile on Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean. | |||
||1816: Stanislas Charles Henri Dupuy de Lôme born ... naval architect. Pic. | |||
||1829: Asaph Hall III born ... an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other planets and of double stars, the rotation of Saturn, and the mass of Mars. Pic (cool). | |||
||1833: Frederick Guthrie born ... physicist and chemist and academic author. Pic. | |||
||1837: Leo Königsberger born ... mathematician, and historian of science. He is best known for his three-volume biography of Hermann von Helmholtz, which remains the standard reference on the subject. Pic. | |||
||1851: First successful communication by submarine cable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_Telegraph_Company Pic. | |||
||1858: Carl Gustaf Mosander dies ... chemist. He discovered the elements lanthanum, erbium and terbium. Pic. | |||
||1861: Heinrich Friedrich Karl Ludwig Burkhardt born ... mathematician. He famously was one of the two examiners of Albert Einstein's PhD thesis Eine neue Bestimmung der Moleküldimensionen. Pic. | |||
File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' sinks for the second time, killing all eight of her second crew, including Horace Hunley himself, who was aboard at the time, even though he was not a member of the Confederate military. | File:Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley.jpg|link=H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|1863: Confederate submarine ''[[H. L. Hunley (nonfiction)|H. L. Hunley]]'' sinks for the second time, killing all eight of her second crew, including Horace Hunley himself, who was aboard at the time, even though he was not a member of the Confederate military. | ||
File: | ||1878: The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation. | ||
File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1965: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)| | |||
||1888: Daniel Gooch born ... laid the first successful transatlantic cables. Sir Daniel Gooch was an English railway pioneer and inventor who was trained in George Stephenson & Edward Pease's works at Newcastle upon Tyne. He was locomotive superintendent of Great Western Railway for 27 years, where as Brunel's right-hand man, he designed the best broad-gauge engines and invented “the suspended link motion with the shifting radius link” (1843). Gooch also experimented with a dynamometer carriage. In 1864 he resigned to concentrate on developing telegraphic communication. Sir Daniel Gooch and his son Charles, were the engineers who laid the first Atlantic Cable from the steamship The Great Eastern. Daniel became member of Parliment. Pic. | |||
||1890: Jakob Nielsen born ... mathematician known for his work on automorphisms of surfaces. Nielsen transformations are certain automorphisms of a free group which are a non-commutative analogue of row reduction and one of the main tools used in studying free groups, introduced by Nielsen to prove that every subgroup of a free group is free (the Nielsen–Schreier theorem), now used in a variety of mathematics, including computational group theory, k-theory, and knot theory. | |||
File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|link=Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|1894: The Dreyfus affair: [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] is arrested for spying. | |||
||1907: Maurice (Moritz) Loewy dies ... astronomer. Pic search. | |||
||1909: Bernhard Hermann Neumann born ... mathematician who was a leader in the study of group theory. Pic. | |||
||1909: Gian Carlo Wick born ... theoretical physicist who made important contributions to quantum field theory. The Wick rotation, Wick contraction, Wick's theorem, and the Wick product are named after him. Pic. | |||
||1917: World War I: At Vincennes outside Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for the German Empire. | |||
||1919: Malcolm Ross born ... captain, balloonist, and physicist ... Skyhook General Mills. Pic. | |||
||1926: Franz Serafin Exner born ... physicist. Pic. | |||
||1928: Donald Bruce Gillies born ... mathematician and computer scientist, known for his work in game theory, computer design, and minicomputer programming environments. Pic. | |||
||1928: The airship ''Graf Zeppelin'' completes its first trans-Atlantic flight, landing at Lakehurst, New Jersey, United States. | |||
||1946: Arthur James Arnot born ... electrical engineer and inventor, best known for patenting the world's first electric drill. He later designed the Spencer Street Power Station, Victoria. Pic search. | |||
||1951: Mexican chemist Luis E. Miramontes conducts the very last step of the first synthesis of norethisterone, the progestin that would later be used in one of the first three oral contraceptives. Pic. | |||
||1953: British nuclear test Totem 1 is detonated at Emu Field, South Australia. | |||
||1956: Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time. | |||
||1958: Elizabeth Alexander dies ... British geologist, academic, and physicist. Pic. | |||
||1959: Lipót Fejér dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | |||
File:Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel.jpg|link=Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|1965: Mathematician [[Abraham Fraenkel (nonfiction)|Abraham Fraenkel]] dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of [[Georg Cantor (nonfiction)|Georg Cantor]]. | |||
||1966: Ross Gunn dies ... physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. The New York Times described him as "one of the true fathers of the nuclear submarine program". Pic. | |||
||1966: The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale. Pic. | |||
||1980: Mikhail Lavrentyev dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1990: Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation. Pic. | |||
||1990: Wilhelm Magnus dies ... mathematician. He made important contributions in combinatorial group theory, Lie algebras, mathematical physics, elliptic functions, and the study of tessellations. Pic search. | |||
||1997: The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn. | |||
||2000: Konrad Emil Bloch dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||2001: NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io. | |||
||2003: China launches Shenzhou 5, its first manned space mission. | |||
||2012: Maria Petrou dies ... computer scientist and academic. Pic search. | |||
File:Pink City.jpg|link=Pink City (nonfiction)|2015: ''[[Pink City (nonfiction)|Pink City]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | |||
||2016: Marcel Berger dies ... mathematician who worked in differential geometry. Pic. | |||
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Latest revision as of 14:25, 7 February 2022
1608: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli born. He will invent the barometer, make advances in optics, and work on the method of indivisibles.
1863: Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley sinks for the second time, killing all eight of her second crew, including Horace Hunley himself, who was aboard at the time, even though he was not a member of the Confederate military.
1894: The Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.
1965: Mathematician Abraham Fraenkel dies. He contributed to axiomatic set theory, and published a biography of Georg Cantor.
2015: Pink City voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.