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File:Jean-Baptiste Morin.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]] dies. | || *** DONE: Pics *** | ||
||1217: The Charter of the Forest was sealed by King Henry III, making it "the first environmental charter forced on any government" in which were asserted "the rights of the property-less, of the commoners, and of the commons." Pic: document. | |||
||1604: George Ent born ... scientist in the seventeenth century who focused on the study of anatomy. He was a member of the Royal Society and the Royal College of Physicians. Ent is best known for his associations with William Harvey, particularly his ''Apologia pro circulatione sanguinis'', a defense of Harvey’s work. Pic. | |||
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File:Jean-Baptiste Morin.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]] dies. Morin championed the geocentric worldview, opposing Galileo and his ideas; Morin also opposed Descartes' ideas after meeting the philosopher in 1638. | |||
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||1755: Stanisław Staszic born ... philosopher, poet, and geologist. He was a leading figure of the Polish Enlightenment. Pic. | |||
||1771: John Bevis dies ... physician and astronomer, Uranographia. Pic: star chart. | |||
||1781: Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana born ... astronomer and mathematician. Plana's contributions included work on the motions of the Moon, as well as integrals, (including the Abel–Plana formula), elliptic functions, heat, electrostatics, and geodesy. Pic. | |||
||1808: Friedrich Julius Richelot born ... mathematician. Richelot authored numerous publications in German, French and Latin, among them — with his 1832 dissertation — the first known guide to the Euclidean construction of the regular 257-gon with compass and straightedge. Pic. | |||
||1809: Rudolf Hermann Arndt Kohlrausch born ... physicist. In 1856, with Wilhelm Weber (1804–1891), he demonstrated that the ratio of electrostatic to electromagnetic units produced a number that matched the value of the then known speed of light. This finding was instrumental towards Maxwell's conjecture that light is an electromagnetic wave. Pic. | |||
||1822: Claude Louis Berthollet born ... chemist who became vice president of the French Senate in 1804. He is known for his scientific contributions to theory of chemical equilibria via the mechanism of reverse chemical reactions, and for his contribution to modern chemical nomenclature. Pic. | |||
||1835: Cesare Lombroso born ... criminologist and physician, founded the Italian school of criminology. Using concepts drawn from physiognomy, degeneration theory, psychiatry and Social Darwinism, Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited, and that someone "born criminal" could be identified by physical (congenital) defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage or atavistic. Pic. | |||
||1847: Academic and inventor Warren Seymour Johnson born. His multi-zone pneumatic control system solved the problem. Johnson’s system for temperature regulation was adopted worldwide for office buildings, schools, hospitals, and hotels – essentially any large building with multiple rooms that required temperature regulation. Pic. | |||
||1855: E. S. Gosney born ... philanthropist and eugenicist, founded the Human Betterment Foundation. Pic. | |||
||1857: William Albert Noyes born ... analytical and organic chemist. He made pioneering determinations of atomic weights. Pic. | |||
||1861: James Naismith born ... physician and educator, invented basketball. Pic (with ball). | |||
||1865: American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels. | |||
||1880: Giusto Bellavitis dies ... mathematician, senator, and municipal councilor. His principle achievement is the invention of the method of equipollences, a new method of analytic geometry that is both philosophical and fruitful. Pic. | |||
||1886: Ida Barney born ... astronomer, mathematician, and academic. Pic. | |||
||1901: Kate Greenaway dies ... author and illustrator ... known for her children's book illustrations. The depictions of children in imaginary 18th-century costumes in a Queen Anne style were extremely popular in England and internationally, sparking the Kate Greenaway style. Pic. | |||
||1906: Emma Lehmer born ... mathematician known for her work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory. She preferred to deal with complex number fields and integers, rather than the more abstract aspects of the theory. Pic: https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/05/11_emmalehmer.shtml | |||
||1907: Donald Hings born ... inventor. In 1937 he created a portable radio signaling system for his employer CM&S, which he called a "packset", but which later became known as the "Walkie-Talkie". Pic search. | |||
||1913: William Henry Preece dies ... electrical engineer and inventor. He was a major figure in the development and introduction of wireless telegraphy and the telephone in Great Britain. Pic. | |||
||1925: Vladimir Teplyakov born ... experimental physicist known for his work on particle accelerators. Together with I.M. Kapchinsky, he invented the principle of the radio-frequency quadrupole (RFQ), which revolutionized the acceleration of low-energy charged particle beams. Pic. | |||
||1928: Arnold Rothstein murdered ... American mob boss. Pic. | |||
||1935: Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers. Pic. | |||
File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1944: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. | |||
||1950: Amir Aczel born ... mathematician, historian, and academic. Pic search. | |||
||1964: Hans von Euler-Chelpin dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
File:Cannikin.jpg|link=Cannikin (nonfiction)|1971: The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named [[Cannikin (nonfiction)|Cannikin]], on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians. | |||
File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1973: The ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted. | File:Pioneer 10 construction.jpg|link=Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|1973: The ''[[Pioneer 10 (nonfiction)|Pioneer 10]]'' space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted. | ||
File:Euglena Junction.jpg|link=Euglena Junction|1976: An episode of ''[[Euglena Junction]]'' shocks viewers when the actor playing the role of Uncle Joe dies on camera after eating too many rotifers. | |||
||1979: Alexander Weinstein dies ... mathematician who worked on boundary value problems in fluid dynamics. Pic. | |||
||1993: Georges Reeb dies ... mathematician. He worked in differential topology, differential geometry, differential equations, topological dynamical systems theory and non-standard analysis. Pic. | |||
||2002: Sid Sackson dies ... game designer ... board game designer and collector, best known as the creator of the business game ''Acquire''. Pic search. | |||
||2005: Theodore Puck dies ... geneticist. Puck was an early pioneer of "somatic cell genetics" and single-cell plating ( i.e. "cloning" .) This work allowed the genetics of human and other mammalian cells to be studied in detail. Also, Puck's team found that humans had 46 chromosomes rather than 48 which had earlier been believed. Pic search. | |||
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Latest revision as of 14:50, 7 February 2022
1656: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin dies. Morin championed the geocentric worldview, opposing Galileo and his ideas; Morin also opposed Descartes' ideas after meeting the philosopher in 1638.
1944: Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1971: The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1973: The Pioneer 10 space probe begins taking photographs of Jupiter. A total of about 500 images will be transmitted.
1976: An episode of Euglena Junction shocks viewers when the actor playing the role of Uncle Joe dies on camera after eating too many rotifers.