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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 dies ... philosopher, theologian, and politician. | ||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]]. | ||
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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 dies ... astronomer and meteorologist. | ||1808: Caterina Scarpellini dies ... astronomer and meteorologist. Pic. | ||
||1856: Jacques Curie born ... physicist and academic. | ||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. | ||
||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. | ||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. | ||
|| | ||1866: Sam Eyde born ... engineer and industrialist, founder of both Norsk Hydro and Elkem. Pic. | ||
|| | ||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 | ||
||1909: Hans Neurath | ||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. | ||
||1909: Hans Neurath born ... biochemist, a leader in protein chemistry. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hans+Neurath | |||
||1910: Dan Pedoe born ... mathematician and geometer. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Pedoe.html | ||1910: Dan Pedoe born ... mathematician and geometer. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Pedoe.html | ||
||1921: Bill Mauldin born ... soldier and cartoonist. | ||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. | ||
|| | ||1922: Rudolf Hoppe born ... chemist, discovered the first covalent noble gas compounds. Pic (with cat!). | ||
|| | ||1923: Carl Djerassi born ... chemist, author, and playwright. Pic. | ||
||1933: Paul Painlevé dies ... mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France. | ||1925: Klaus Roth born .. mathematician ... known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution. Pic. | ||
||1925: Nathan Divinsky born ... mathematician and chess player. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Nathan+Divinsky | |||
||1933: Paul Painlevé dies ... mathematician and politician, 84th Prime Minister of France. Pic. | |||
||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. | |||
||1943: Heinrich Biltz dies ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||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 | 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. | ||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. | ||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. | ||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. | ||
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||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 | ||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 | ||
||2004: | 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." | ||
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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.
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.
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."