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||1569: Martin Ruland the Younger born ... physician and chemist. | ||1569: Martin Ruland the Younger born ... physician and chemist. | ||
||1586: Niccolò Arrighetti born ... intellectual, pupil and associate of Galileo Galilei. Pic: ceremonial 'bran shovel' . | |||
File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Leibniz (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician [[Gottfried Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Leibniz]] demonstrates integral [[Calculus (nonfiction)|calculus]] for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x). | File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Leibniz (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician [[Gottfried Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Leibniz]] demonstrates integral [[Calculus (nonfiction)|calculus]] for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x). | ||
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||1895: Wealthy Consuelo Babcock born ... mathematician. She was an outstanding teacher at the University of Kansas for thirty years; she was also the mathematics department's librarian. Pic. | ||1895: Wealthy Consuelo Babcock born ... mathematician. She was an outstanding teacher at the University of Kansas for thirty years; she was also the mathematics department's librarian. Pic. | ||
||1896: Alexander Hrennikoff born ... structural engineer, a founder of the finite element method. Pic. | |||
||1904: Alger Hiss born ... lawyer and convicted spy. | ||1904: Alger Hiss born ... lawyer and convicted spy. | ||
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||1926: The United States Numbered Highway System is established. | ||1926: The United States Numbered Highway System is established. | ||
||Johan Wilhelm (Billy) Klüver born ... electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories who founded Experiments in Art and Technology. Klüver lectured extensively on art and technology and social issues to be addressed by the technical community. Pic search cool: https://www.google.com/search?q=Billy+Klüver | ||1927: Johan Wilhelm (Billy) Klüver born ... electrical engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories who founded Experiments in Art and Technology. Klüver lectured extensively on art and technology and social issues to be addressed by the technical community. Pic search cool: https://www.google.com/search?q=Billy+Klüver | ||
||1930: Hugh Everett III born ... physicist and mathematician. | ||1930: Hugh Everett III born ... physicist and mathematician. | ||
||1930: Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator. | ||1930: Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator. | ||
||1930: Mildred Dresselhaus born . | ||1930: Physicist Mildred Dresselhaus born. The "queen of carbon science". Pic. | ||
||1940: World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from the Automedon, and sends it to Japan. | ||1940: World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from the Automedon, and sends it to Japan. | ||
||1951: Kim Peek born ... | ||1951: Megasavant Kim Peek born. He had an exceptional memory, but he also experienced social difficulties, possibly resulting from a developmental disability related to congenital brain abnormalities. He was the inspiration for the autistic savant character Raymond Babbitt in the movie Rain Man. Although Peek was previously diagnosed with autism, it is now thought that he instead had FG syndrome. | ||
File:Hugh Everett III.jpg|link=Hugh Everett III (nonfiction)|1930: Physicist [[Hugh Everett III (nonfiction)|Hugh Everett III]] born. He will propose the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics. | File:Hugh Everett III.jpg|link=Hugh Everett III (nonfiction)|1930: Physicist [[Hugh Everett III (nonfiction)|Hugh Everett III]] born. He will propose the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics. | ||
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||1967: Lester Randolph Ford Sr. dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1967: Lester Randolph Ford Sr. dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1973: Artturi Ilmari Virtanen dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1973: Artturi Ilmari Virtanen dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2003: Andrei Bolibrukh dies ... mathematician. He was known for his work on ordinary differential equations especially Hilbert's twenty-first problem (Riemann–Hilbert problem). Pic: http://www.mi-ras.ru/index.php?c=inmemoria&l=1 | ||2003: Andrei Bolibrukh dies ... mathematician. He was known for his work on ordinary differential equations especially Hilbert's twenty-first problem (Riemann–Hilbert problem). Pic: http://www.mi-ras.ru/index.php?c=inmemoria&l=1 | ||
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File:Philip G. Hodge.jpg|link=Philip G. Hodge (nonfiction)|2014: Materials engineer and academic [[Philip G. Hodge (nonfiction)|Philip G. Hodge]] dies. He studied the mechanics of elastic and plastic behavior of materials, contributing to plasticity theory including developments in the method of characteristics, limit-analysis, piecewise linear isotropic plasticity, and nonlinear programming applications. | File:Philip G. Hodge.jpg|link=Philip G. Hodge (nonfiction)|2014: Materials engineer and academic [[Philip G. Hodge (nonfiction)|Philip G. Hodge]] dies. He studied the mechanics of elastic and plastic behavior of materials, contributing to plasticity theory including developments in the method of characteristics, limit-analysis, piecewise linear isotropic plasticity, and nonlinear programming applications. | ||
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Latest revision as of 15:25, 7 February 2022
1675: Mathematician Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ƒ(x).
1875: Astronomer Vesto Melvin Slipher born. He will perform the first measurements of radial velocities for galaxies, providing the empirical basis for the expansion of the universe.
1904: Mathematician and academic J. H. C. Whitehead born. During the Second World War, he will work with the codebreakers at Bletchley Park.
1930: Physicist Hugh Everett III born. He will propose the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics.
1965: Math photographer Cantor Parabola warns that crimes against mathematical constants are on the rise.
2005: The Venus Express successfully performs its first trajectory correction maneuver.
2014: Materials engineer and academic Philip G. Hodge dies. He studied the mechanics of elastic and plastic behavior of materials, contributing to plasticity theory including developments in the method of characteristics, limit-analysis, piecewise linear isotropic plasticity, and nonlinear programming applications.