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||1390 – First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.
||1390: First trial for witchcraft in Paris leading to the death of three people.


||1590 – Dirck Coornhert, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and politician (b. 1522)
||1590: Dirck Coornhert dies ... philosopher, theologian, and politician. Coornhert is often considered the Father of Dutch Renaissance scholarship. No DOB. Pic.


File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1675: [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in [[Calculus (nonfiction)|calculus]].
File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1675: [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in [[Calculus (nonfiction)|calculus]].


||1690 – Martin Folkes, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1754)
||1690: Martin Folkes born ... antiquary, numismatist, mathematician, and astronomer. Pic.


File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1732: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.
File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1732: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.
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File:Jean le Rond d'Alembert.jpg|link=Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.
File:Jean le Rond d'Alembert.jpg|link=Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher [[Jean le Rond d'Alembert (nonfiction)|Jean le Rond d'Alembert]] dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.


||1808 – Caterina Scarpellini, Italian astronomer and meteorologist (d. 1873)
||1808: Caterina Scarpellini dies ... astronomer and meteorologist. Pic.


||1856 – Jacques Curie, French physicist and academic (d. 1941)
||1856: Jacques Curie born ... physicist, mineralogist, and academic. Together with his younger brother, Pierre Curie, he studied pyroelectricity in the 1880s, leading to their discovery of some of the mechanisms behind piezoelectricity. Pic.


||1880 – Abram Ioffe, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1960)
||1866: Carl Gustav Witt born ... astronomer and discover of two asteroids who worked at the Berlin Urania Observatory, a popular observatory of the Urania astronomical association of Berlin. Pic.


||1921 – Bill Mauldin, American soldier and cartoonist (d. 2003)
||1866: Sam Eyde born ... engineer and industrialist, founder of both Norsk Hydro and Elkem. Pic.


||1923 – Carl Djerassi, Austrian-American chemist, author, and playwright (d. 2015)
||1878: Patent issued for Odhner calculating machine. *VFR Willigot T. Odhner was granted a patent for a calculating machine that performed multiplications by repeated additions. The patent, a modified and compact version of Gottfried von Leibniz stepped wheel, was acquired and embodied in Brunsviga calculators that sold into 1950s.*CHM https://pballew.blogspot.com/2018/10/on-this-day-in-math-october-29.html


||1925 – Klaus Roth, British mathematician (d. 2015)
||1880: Abram Ioffe born ... physicist and academic ... an expert in electromagnetism, radiology, crystals, high-impact physics, thermoelectricity and photoelectricity. He established research laboratories for radioactivity, superconductivity, and nuclear physics. Pic.


||1933 – Paul Painlevé, French mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France (b. 1853)
||1909: Hans Neurath born ... biochemist, a leader in protein chemistry. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hans+Neurath


File:Long Shot film still.jpg|link=Long Shot (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|1965 Oct. 29: ''[[Long Shot (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Long Shot]]'' nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska. It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States.
||1910: Dan Pedoe born ... mathematician and geometer. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Pedoe.html


||1969 – The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
||1921: Bill Mauldin born ... soldier and cartoonist.  Mauldin will gain fame — and two Pulitzer prizes — for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers, as represented by the archetypal characters Willie and Joe, two weary and bedraggled infantry troopers who stoically endure the difficulties and dangers of duty in the field. Pic.


||1971 – Arne Tiselius, Swedish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902)
||1922: Rudolf Hoppe born ... chemist, discovered the first covalent noble gas compounds. Pic (with cat!).


||1980 – Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
||1923: Carl Djerassi born ... chemist, author, and playwright. Pic.


||1991 – The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
||1925: Klaus Roth born .. mathematician ... known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution. Pic.


||1993 – Lipman Bers, Latvian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1914)
||1925: Nathan Divinsky born ... mathematician and chess player. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Nathan+Divinsky


||1997 – Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos, Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist (b. 1947)
||1933: Paul Painlevé dies ... mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France. Pic.


||2004 – Ordal Demokan, Turkish physicist and academic (b. 1946)
||1933: Albert Calmette dies ... physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist. Calmette discovered the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, an attenuated form of ''Mycobacterium bovis'' used in the BCG vaccine against tuberculosis. He also developed the first antivenom for snake venom, the Calmette's serum. Pic.


||2004 – Peter Twinn, English mathematician and entomologist (b. 1916)
||1943: Heinrich Biltz dies ... chemist and academic. Pic.
 
||1951: Robert Grant Aitken dies ... astronomer and academic. Aitkin systematically study of double stars, measuring their positions and calculating their orbits around one another. From 1899, in collaboration with W. J. Hussey, he methodically created a very large catalog of such stars. Pic.
 
||1959: Edith Clarke dies ... electrical engineer. She specialized in electrical power system analysis and wrote ''Circuit Analysis of A-C Power Systems''. Pic.
 
File:Long Shot film still.jpg|link=Long Shot (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|1965: ''[[Long Shot (nuclear test) (nonfiction)|Long Shot]]'' nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska (51.43709°N 179.18032°E). It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States. Amchitka Island, Alaska (80 kilotons). The Department of Defense occupied Amchitka from 1964 to 1966, with the AEC providing the device, measuring instruments, and scientific support.
 
||1969: The first-ever computer-to-computer link is established on ARPANET, the precursor to the Internet.
 
||1971: Arne Tiselius dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1980: Demonstration flight of a secretly modified C-130 for an Iran hostage crisis rescue attempt ends in crash landing at Eglin Air Force Base's Duke Field, Florida leading to cancellation of Operation Credible Sport.
 
||1981: Hugo Hadwiger dies ... mathematician, known for his work in geometry, combinatorics, and cryptography. Pic.
 
||1991: The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
 
||1993: Lipman Bers dies ... mathematician ... he created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. Pic: http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/riga/riga_pages/riga_stories_bers.html
 
||1993: Robert Palmer Dilworth dies ... mathematician. His primary research area was lattice theory; his biography at the MacTutor History of Mathematics archive states "it would not be an exaggeration to say that he was one of the main factors in the subject moving from being merely a tool of other disciplines to an important subject in its own right". He is best known for Dilworth's theorem (Dilworth 1950) relating chains and antichains in partial orders; he was also the first to study antimatroids. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Robert-P-Dilworth/6000000035405400337
 
||1996: Richard James Duffin dies ... physicist, known for his contributions to electrical transmission theory and to the development of geometric programming and other areas within operations research. No birth date. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Richard-Duffin
 
||2004: Ordal Demokan dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search yes: Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=ordal+demokan
 
File:Peter_Twinn.jpg|link=Peter Twinn (nonfiction)|2004: Mathematician and entomologist [[Peter Twinn (nonfiction)|Peter Twinn]] dies. During the Second World War, he was the first professional mathematician recruited by the British Government Code and Cypher School. Twinn was also the first British cryptographer to read a German military Enigma message, having obtained vital information from Polish cryptanalysts in July 1939. Twinn said that "It was a trifling exercise, but I repeat for the umpteenth time, no credit to me."


File:Lord_Kelvin.jpg|link=Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|2017: "[[Brainiac (nonfiction)|Brainiac]] is planning to [[Heat death of the universe (nonfiction)|kill us all]]," warns Lord Kelvin.


|File:Carnevale Tenebre vise 600x800.jpg|link=Carnevale Tenebre|[[Carnevale Tenebre]] uses vise to clamp souls.
|File:Thugs strangling traveller.jpg|link=Criminal (nonfiction)|[[Demon (nonfiction)|Demon]]-hunters [[Predation (nonfiction)|capture their prey]]. One hunter grips the Demon's feet, another its hands, while the third weaves a sacred ligature around the Demon's neck.
|File:Marshall McLuhan.jpg|link=Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|[[Marshall McLuhan (nonfiction)|Marshall McLuhan]] less wrong than you think.
|File:Brer_Rabbit_and_Tar_Baby_9000_small.png|link=Tar-Baby 9000|[[Tar-Baby 9000]] uploads [[Turpentine delight]] into Brer Rabbit.
|File:Nysa_on_Maeander_Library_Upgrade.jpg|link=Nysa on the Maeander|[[Nysa on the Maeander]] upgrading to full [[transdimensional corporation]].
|File:Phantomtollbooth.PNG|link=The Phantom Tollbooth (nonfiction)|Before his appearance in [[The Phantom Tollbooth]], Tock the Clock Dog endorsed Extract of Radium in order to qualify for [[Who Wants to Be a Chronometer?]].
|File:Curie and radium by Castaigne.jpg|link=Extract of Radium|M. and Mme. Curie reverse engineer [[Extract of Radium]].
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Latest revision as of 13:39, 7 February 2022

  • 1675: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.

    1675: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz makes the first use of the long s (∫) as a symbol of the integral in calculus.

  • 1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.

    1732: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi is granted professorship in philosophy by the University of Bologna, thus also making her a member of the Academy of the Sciences.

  • 1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.

    1783: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert dies. He made contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.

  • 1965: Long Shot nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska (51.43709°N 179.18032°E). It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States. Amchitka Island, Alaska (80 kilotons). The Department of Defense occupied Amchitka from 1964 to 1966, with the AEC providing the device, measuring instruments, and scientific support.

    1965: Long Shot nuclear weapons test at Amchitka, Alaska (51.43709°N 179.18032°E). It was the largest underground explosion ever detonated by the United States. Amchitka Island, Alaska (80 kilotons). The Department of Defense occupied Amchitka from 1964 to 1966, with the AEC providing the device, measuring instruments, and scientific support.

  • 2004: Mathematician and entomologist Peter Twinn dies. During the Second World War, he was the first professional mathematician recruited by the British Government Code and Cypher School. Twinn was also the first British cryptographer to read a German military Enigma message, having obtained vital information from Polish cryptanalysts in July 1939. Twinn said that "It was a trifling exercise, but I repeat for the umpteenth time, no credit to me."

    2004: Mathematician and entomologist Peter Twinn dies. During the Second World War, he was the first professional mathematician recruited by the British Government Code and Cypher School. Twinn was also the first British cryptographer to read a German military Enigma message, having obtained vital information from Polish cryptanalysts in July 1939. Twinn said that "It was a trifling exercise, but I repeat for the umpteenth time, no credit to me."

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