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|File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1583: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[scrying engine]] to make improved astronomical observations.
|File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1583: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] uses [[scrying engine]] to make improved astronomical observations.


||Pedro da Fonseca (d. 4 November 1599) was a Portuguese Jesuit philosopher and theologian. His work on logic and metaphysics made him known in his time as the Portuguese Aristotle.
||1599: Pedro da Fonseca dies ... Jesuit philosopher and theologian. His work on logic and metaphysics made him known in his time as the Portuguese Aristotle. No DOB. Pic: book cover.


||1633 – Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician and academic (d. 1714) occupational medicine
||1633: Bernardino Ramazzini born ... physician and academic ... occupational medicine. Pic.


File:Jean-Charles della Faille by Anthony van Dyck.jpg|link=Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|1652: Priest and mathematician [[Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles della Faille]] dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.
File:Jean-Charles della Faille by Anthony van Dyck.jpg|link=Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|1652: Priest and mathematician [[Jean-Charles della Faille (nonfiction)|Jean-Charles della Faille]] dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.


||1698 – Rasmus Bartholin, Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)
File:Rasmus_Bartholin.jpg|link=Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|1698: Physician, mathematician, and physicist [[Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|Rasmus Bartholin]] dies. He discovered the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.  


||Johann III Bernoulli (b. 4 November 1744), grandson of Johann Bernoulli, and son of Johann II Bernoulli. He was known around the world as a child prodigy. Pic.
||1744: Johann III Bernoulli born ... grandson of Johann Bernoulli, and son of Johann II Bernoulli. He was known around the world as a child prodigy. Pic.


||1765 – Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1836)
||1765: Pierre-Simon Girard born ... mathematician and engineer. He contributed to fluid mechanics and beam theory. Pic.


||1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a Scottish physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.
File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] and several friends, is granted a royal charter.


File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1850: Physicist, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] publishes landmark paper on applications of thermodynamics to the computation and prevent of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
||1887: Alfred Lee Loomis born ... physicist and philanthropist.


File:Sir Sandford Fleming.jpg|link=Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor [[Sandford Fleming (nonfiction)|Sandford Fleming]] and several friends, is granted a royal charter.
||1889: Hans Erich (Eric) Hollmann born ... electronic specialist who made several breakthroughs in the development of radar. Pic: https://radarworld.org/hans5.html
 
||1903: Robert Emerson born ... scientist noted for his discovery that plants have two distinct photosynthetic reaction centers.
 
||1907: Horace Richard Crane born ... physicist, the inventor of the Race Track Synchrotron, a recipient of President Ronald Reagan's National Medal of Science "for the first measurement of the magnetic moment and spin of free electrons and positrons". He was also noted for proving the existence of neutrinos. Pic search.
 
||1908: Joseph Rotblat born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1887 – Alfred Lee Loomis, American physicist and philanthropist (d. 1975)
||1908: Military officer Alpo K. Marttinen born. During World War II he served in the Finnish Army. Following the war he immigrated to the United States and served as an officer in the United States Army, retiring as a colonel. Marttinen was one of the key figures in the Weapons Cache Case where a large number of Finnish Army weapons was hidden around the country in case of a Soviet invasion. Pic.


||Horace Richard Crane (b. November 4, 1907) was an American physicist, the inventor of the Race Track Synchrotron, a recipient of President Ronald Reagan's National Medal of Science "for the first measurement of the magnetic moment and spin of free electrons and positrons". He was also noted for proving the existence of neutrinos.
||1909: Alvin C. Graves born ... nuclear physicist who served at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory and the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. After the war, he became the head of J (Test) Division at Los Alamos, and was director or assistant director of numerous nuclear weapons tests during the 1940s and 1950s. Pic.


||1908 – Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005).
||1912: John Monroe Van Vleck dies ... mathematician and astronomer. He taught astronomy and mathematics at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut for more than 50 years (1853-1912). Pic.


||Alvin Cushman Graves (b. November 4, 1909) was an American nuclear physicist who served at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory and the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. After the war, he became the head of J (Test) Division at Los Alamos, and was director or assistant director of numerous nuclear weapons tests during the 1940s and 1950s. Pic.
||1918: Lt-Col Edward Frank Harrison C.M.G. dies ... English chemical scientist, credited with the invention of the first serviceable gas mask during World War I. DOB/DOD: https://simonjoneshistorian.com/2016/07/07/edward-harrison-who-gave-his-life-developing-protection-against-poison-gas/ Pic.


||1921 – Mary Sherman Morgan, American scientist and engineer (d. 2004)
||1921: Mary Sherman Morgan born ... scientist and engineer.


||Andrew Mattei Gleason (b. 1921) was an American mathematician who as a young World War II naval officer broke German and Japanese military codes, then over the succeeding sixty years made fundamental contributions to widely varied areas of mathematics, including the solution of Hilbert's fifth problem, and was a leader in reform and innovation in math­e­mat­ics teaching at all levels. Pic.
||1921: Andrew M. Gleason born ... mathematician who as a young World War II naval officer broke German and Japanese military codes, then over the succeeding sixty years made fundamental contributions to widely varied areas of mathematics, including the solution of Hilbert's fifth problem, and was a leader in reform and innovation in math­e­mat­ics teaching at all levels. Pic.


||1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
||1922: In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.


||1929 – Shakuntala Devi, Indian mathematician and astrologer (d. 2013)
||1929: Shakuntala Devi born ... mathematician and astrologer.


||1933 – Charles K. Kao, Chinese physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
||1944: Gale Ann Benson born ... model, socialite and daughter of Conservative MP Leonard Plugge. She was buried alive and murdered in Trinidad by activist Michael X and members of his Black Power group.


||Gale Ann Benson (b. 4 November 1944) was a British model, socialite and daughter of Conservative MP Leonard Plugge. She was buried alive and murdered in Trinidad by activist Michael X and members of his Black Power group.
||1952: The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.


||1952 – The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA.
||1959: Friedrich Waismann dies ... mathematician, physicist, and philosopher from the Vienna Circle. Pic search.


||1959 – Friedrich Waismann, Austrian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher from the Vienna Circle (b. 1896)
||1962: The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.


||1962 – The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
||1986: Kurt Hirsch dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||1986 – Kurt Hirsch, German-English mathematician and academic (b. 1906)
||1990: Cyrus Levinthal born ... molecular biologist. While at MIT Levinthal made significant discoveries in molecular genetics relating to the mechanisms of DNA replication, the relationship between genes and proteins, and the nature of messenger RNA. At Columbia Levinthal applied computers to the 3-dimensional imaging of biological structures such as proteins. He is considered the father of computer graphical display of protein structure. Pic search.


||1992 – George Klein, Canadian engineer, invented the motorized wheelchair (b. 1904)
||1992: George Klein dies ... engineer, invented the motorized wheelchair.


||2007 – Karl Rebane, Estonian physicist and academic (b. 1926)
||2008: Michael Crichton dies ... physician, author, director, producer, and screenwriter.


||2008 – Michael Crichton, American physician, author, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1942)
File:Norman F. Ramsey Jr.jpg|link=Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (nonfiction)|2011: Physicist [[Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (nonfiction)|Norman Foster Ramsey Jr.]] dies.  He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method, which has important applications in the construction of atomic clocks.


||Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (d. November 4, 2011) was an American physicist who was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics, for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method, which had important applications in the construction of atomic clocks. Pic.
||2014: S. Donald Stookey dies ... physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare. ||1915: S. Donald Stookey born ... physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare. Pic search.


||2014 – S. Donald Stookey, American physicist and chemist, invented CorningWare (b. 1915)


|File:Anarchimedes.jpg|link=Anarchimedes|Supervillain [[Anarchimedes]] generates earthquakes in the [[Waif (physics)|two to four kilo-waif]] range.
|File:Anna_Manzolini.jpg|link=Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|[[Anna Morandi Manzolini (nonfiction)|Anna Morandi Manzolini]], wax anatomist and crime-fighter, runs a safe house for homeless [[Organic golem|organic golems]].
|File:Golem and Loew.jpg|link=Golem (nonfiction)|Rabbi Lowe inspects [[Golem (nonfiction)|traditional golem]] for organic toxins.
|File:Color wheel by Goethe 1809.jpg|link=Color (nonfiction)|[[Color (nonfiction)|Color wheel]] declines to serve on [[Chromo-Pee Olympics]] board of directors.
|File:Fluorescence chemistry.jpg|link=Chromo-Pee Olympics|[[Chromo-Pee Olympics]] champion urinates five distinct [[Color (nonfiction)|colors]].
|File:Allumette Empyrées.jpg|link=Les Empyrées|''[[Les Empyrées]]'' accidentally set fire to [[Lyoluminescence (nonfiction)|lyoluminescence]] laboratory.
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Latest revision as of 15:40, 7 February 2022

  • 1652: Priest and mathematician Jean-Charles della Faille dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.

    1652: Priest and mathematician Jean-Charles della Faille dies. He published a method for calculating the center of gravity of the sector of a circle.

  • 1698: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin dies. He discovered the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.

    1698: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin dies. He discovered the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.

  • 1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming and several friends, is granted a royal charter.

    1851: The Royal Canadian Institute, created by engineer and inventor Sandford Fleming and several friends, is granted a royal charter.

  • 2011: Physicist Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. dies. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method, which has important applications in the construction of atomic clocks.

    2011: Physicist Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. dies. He was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics for the invention of the separated oscillatory field method, which has important applications in the construction of atomic clocks.

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