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File:Jean-Antoine Nollet.jpg|link=Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|1700: Priest and physicist [[Jean-Antoine Nollet (nonfiction)|Jean-Antoine Nollet]] born. In 1746 he will gather about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He will then discharge a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observe that each man reacts at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation is very high.
||1703: Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner dies. Pic.
||1711: Mikhail Lomonosov born ... physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer. Pic.
||1822: Johann Georg Tralles dies ... mathematician and physicist. He discovered the Great Comet of 1819, also known as Comet Tralles in his honor. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Johann+Georg+Tralles
||1833: Wilhelm Dilthey born ... historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher. Pic.


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File:Georg Hermann Quincke.jpg|link=Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|1834: Physicist and academic [[Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|Georg Hermann Quincke]] born. He will conduct prolonged research on the subject of the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.
File:Jean-Antoine Nollet.jpg|link=|1700: Priest and physicist [[Jean-Antoine Nollet|Jean-Antoine Nollet]] born. In 1746 he gathered about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He then discharged a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observed that each man reacted at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation was very high.
 
||1845: Agnes Giberne born ... astronomer and author ... prolific British author who wrote fiction with moral or religious themes for children and also books on astronomy for young people. Pic: book illustration of midnight on Saturn.
 
||1851: First successful submarine cable is opened to the public. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submarine_Telegraph_Company Pic.
 
||1868: Gustave-Auguste Ferrié born ... radio pioneer and army general. Pic.
 
File:Tatyana_Afanasyeva.jpg|link=Tatyana Afanasyeva (nonfiction)|1876: Mathematician and theorist [[Tatyana Afanasyeva (nonfiction)|Tatyana Afanasyeva]] born. She will contribute to statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics, and to mathematical education in the Netherlands.
 
||1883: Carl Wilhelm Siemens dies ... engineer. The regenerative furnace is the greatest single invention of Charles William Siemens, using a process known as the Siemens-Martin process. The electric pyrometer, which is perhaps the most elegant and original of all William Siemens's inventions, is also the link which connects his electrical with his metallurgical researches. Siemens pursued two major themes in his inventive efforts, one based upon the science of heat, the other based upon the science of electricity. Pic.
 
||1887: James B. Sumner born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1894: Heinz Hopf born ... mathematician who worked on the fields of topology and geometry. Pic.
 
||1898: Arthur R. von Hippel born ... physicist and academic. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=arthur+r.+von+hippel
 
||1899: John William Dawson dies ... geologist and academic ... In 1859 he published a seminal paper describing the first fossil plant found in rocks of Devonian origin. Although his discovery did not have the impact that might have been expected at the time, he is now considered one of the founders of the science of palaeobotany. Pic.
 
||1900: Mikhail Lavrentyev born ... mathematician and hydrodynamicist. Pic.
 
||1901: Nina Bari born ... mathematician. Pic.
 
||1907: Horace Barker born ...biochemist and microbiologist who studied the operation of biological and chemical processes in plants, humans and other animals, including using radioactive tracers to determine the role enzymes play in synthesizing sucrose, and identifying an active form of Vitamin B12. Pic search.


||1703 – Man in the Iron Mask, French prisoner dies.


||1711 – Mikhail Lomonosov, Russian physicist, chemist, astronomer, and geographer (d. 1765)
||1912: Wilhelm Fiedler dies ... mathematician, known for his textbooks of geometry and his contributions to descriptive geometry. Pic.


||1822 – Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
||1912: George Emil Palade born ... biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1834 – Georg Hermann Quincke, German physicist and academic (d. 1924)
||1912: Robert Simpson born ... meteorologist and author. Pic.


||1845 – Agnes Giberne, Indian-English astronomer and author (d. 1939)
||1915: Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr. born ... pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1876 – Tatyana Afanasyeva, Russian-Dutch mathematician and theorist (d. 1964)
File:Curt Meyer.jpg|link=Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|1919: Mathematician [[Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|Curt Meyer]] born. He will make notable contributions to number theory, including an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem.


||1883 – Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German-English engineer (b. 1823)
||1932: Eleanor F. Helin born ... astronomer. Helin was principal investigator of the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking (NEAT) program of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and a prolific discoverer of minor planets (see list) and several comets. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Eleanor+F.+Helin


||1887 – James B. Sumner, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
File:Dick Cavett.jpg|link=Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|1936: Television personality, comedian, and talk show [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] born. Cavett will be notable for his conversational style and in-depth discussions, appearing regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s.


||1898 – Arthur R. von Hippel, German-American physicist and academic (d. 2003)
||1948: Robert Dean Frisbie dies ... American soldier and author ... travel, Polynesia.  Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Robert+Dean+Frisbie


||1900 – Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian mathematician and hydrodynamicist (d. 1980)
||1960: Hans Erich (Eric) Hollmann dies ... electronic specialist who made several breakthroughs in the development of radar. Pic: https://radarworld.org/hans5.html


||1901 – Nina Bari, Russian mathematician (d. 1961)
||1969: Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at ''Oceanus Procellarum'' (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.


||1912 – George Emil Palade, Romanian-American biologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008)
||1973: Nim Chimpsky born ... chimpanzee that was the subject of an extended study of animal language acquisition (codenamed 6.001) at Columbia University.  Pic.


||1912 – Robert Simpson, American meteorologist and author (d. 2014)
||1975: Tokushichi Mishima dies ... metallurgist. He discovered that aluminum restored magnetism to non-magnetic nickel steel. He invented MKM steel, which was an extremely inexpensive magnetic substance that has been used in many applications. It is also closely related to the modern Alnico magnets.  Pic.


||1915 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
||1979: Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.


File:Dick Cavett.jpg|link=Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|1936: Television talk show host [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] born.
||1990: Georgy Nikolayevich Flyorov dies ... physicist who is known for his discovery of the spontaneous fission and his contribution towards the physics of thermal reactions. Pic (stamp).


||1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
||199: Grace Bates dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search maybe.


|File:Green-Ring Dick-Cavett-Show 1969.jpg|link=Green Ring|1974: [[Green Ring]] tells [[Dick Cavett (nonfiction)|Dick Cavett]] a funny story about ...
||1998: Ted Fujita dies ... meteorologist (storms researcher) and academic. Pic.


||1979 – Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
||1999: Yvette Cauchois diesn ... physicist known for her contributions to x-ray spectroscopy and x-ray optics, and for pioneering European synchrotron research. Pic search.


||1998 – Ted Fujita, Japanese-American meteorologist and academic (b. 1920)
||1999: Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.


||1999 – Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
||2004: John Vane dies ... pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||2004 – John Vane, English pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
||2007: Michel André Kervaire dies ... mathematician who made significant contributions to topology and algebra. He introduced the Kervaire semi-characteristic. Pic search.


||2013 – Frederick Sanger, English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
||2013: Frederick Sanger dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


|File:Seifenbläser (Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin).jpg|link=Soap bubble (nonfiction)|Young man has great plans for [[Soap bubble (nonfiction)|soap bubble]].
|File:Spirograph set.jpg|link=Spirograph (nonfiction)|[[Spirograph (nonfiction)|Spirograph]] adapted for use a [[scrying engine]], predicts discovery of [[Red Charter]].
|File:Red-Charter.jpg|link=Posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft|Discovery of "Red Charter" implicates The Rubrics in blood sacrifice of [[H. P. Lovecraft]];  see the [[Posthumous holography of H. P. Lovecraft]].
|File:Myoglobin John Kendrew.jpg|link=John Kendrew (nonfiction)|[[John Kendrew (nonfiction)|John Kendrew]] sets up a perimeter defense of myglobin spikes against [[The Rubrics]].
|File:Protein_crystals_600x800.jpg|link=Protein (nonfiction)|[[Protein (nonfiction)|Protein crystals]] offer assistance to [[John Kendrew (nonfiction)|John Kendrew]] in defense against [[The Rubrics]].
|File:Ernst von Possart as Mephistopheles.jpg|link=Villain (nonfiction)|The [[Villain (nonfiction)|villain Mephistopheles]] has plan to manipulate [[The Rubrics]] for his own ends.
|File:Fugitive_Rubies.jpg|link=Fugitive Rubies|Supervillain [[Fugitive Rubies]] captured by [[Niles Cartouchian]].
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Latest revision as of 16:15, 7 February 2022

  • 1700: Priest and physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet born. In 1746 he will gather about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He will then discharge a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observe that each man reacts at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation is very high.

    1700: Priest and physicist Jean-Antoine Nollet born. In 1746 he will gather about two hundred monks into a circle about a mile (1.6 km) in circumference, with pieces of iron wire connecting them. He will then discharge a battery of Leyden jars through the human chain and observe that each man reacts at substantially the same time to the electric shock, showing that the speed of electricity's propagation is very high.

  • 1834: Physicist and academic Georg Hermann Quincke born. He will conduct prolonged research on the subject of the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.

    1834: Physicist and academic Georg Hermann Quincke born. He will conduct prolonged research on the subject of the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter, modifying the dissociation hypothesis of Clausius.

  • 1876: Mathematician and theorist Tatyana Afanasyeva born. She will contribute to statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics, and to mathematical education in the Netherlands.

    1876: Mathematician and theorist Tatyana Afanasyeva born. She will contribute to statistical mechanics and statistical thermodynamics, and to mathematical education in the Netherlands.

  • 1919: Mathematician Curt Meyer born. He will make notable contributions to number theory, including an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem.

    1919: Mathematician Curt Meyer born. He will make notable contributions to number theory, including an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem.

  • 1936: Television personality, comedian, and talk show Dick Cavett born. Cavett will be notable for his conversational style and in-depth discussions, appearing regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s.

    1936: Television personality, comedian, and talk show Dick Cavett born. Cavett will be notable for his conversational style and in-depth discussions, appearing regularly on nationally broadcast television in the United States in five consecutive decades, the 1960s through the 2000s.

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