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File:Statue of Ibn Rushd in Cordoba.jpg|link=Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|1198: Polymath [[Ibn Rushd (nonfiction)|Ibn Rushd]] (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics. | |||
File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] born. | File:Johannes Stöffler.jpg|link=Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor [[Johannes Stöffler (nonfiction)|Johannes Stöffler]] born. | ||
File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1815: Mathematician and writer [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] born. | |||
File: | ||1588: Isaac Beeckman born ... scientist and philosopher. Pic search. | ||
File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1959: [[Chrome Plover]], the | |||
File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1989: Animated [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram celebrates the life and work of [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]]. | ||1626: Edmund Gunter dies ... mathematician and academic. No DOB. No pic online. | ||
File:Sir Isaac Newton by Sir Godfrey Kneller.jpg|link=Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|1684: [[Isaac Newton (nonfiction)|Isaac Newton]]'s derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper ''De motu corporum in gyrum'', is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley. | |||
||1725: Nicolaas Hartsoeker dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic: book cover. | |||
||1799: France adopts the metre as its official unit of length. | |||
File:Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi.jpg|link=Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|1804: Mathematician and academic [[Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (nonfiction)|Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi]] born. He will make fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory. | |||
File:Ada Lovelace.jpg|link=Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|1815: Mathematician and writer [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]] born. She will do pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. | |||
File:Thomas Seebeck.jpg|link=Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist and academic [[Thomas Johann Seebeck (nonfiction)|Thomas Johann Seebeck]] dies. He discovered the thermoelectric effect. | |||
||1850: François Sulpice Beudant dies ... mineralogist and geologist. Pic. | |||
||1851: Karl Freiherr von Drais born ... forest official and significant inventor in the Biedermeier period. Dandy horse. Pic. | |||
File:Margaret Eliza Maltby circa 1908.jpg|link=Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|1860: Physicist [[Margaret Eliza Maltby (nonfiction)|Margaret Eliza Maltby]] born. She will contribute to the measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions. | |||
||1864: Henry Schoolcraft dies ... geographer, geologist, and ethnologist ... Native Americans. Pic. | |||
||1868: The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps. | |||
||1874: Dr. Walter Guyton Cady born ... physicist and electrical engineer. He was a pioneer in piezoelectricity, and in 1921 developed the first quartz crystal oscillator. Pic: https://ieee-uffc.org/about-us/history/walter-guyton-cady-memorial-page/ | |||
||1896: Alfred Nobel dies ... chemist and engineer, invented Dynamite and founded the Nobel Prize. Pic. | |||
||1901: The first Nobel Prizes are awarded. | |||
||1906: Walter Henry Zinn born ... nuclear physicist who was the first director of the Argonne National Laboratory from 1946 to 1956. He worked at the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory during World War II, and supervised the construction of Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first nuclear reactor, which went critical on December 2, 1942, at the University of Chicago. At Argonne he designed and built several new reactors, including Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the first nuclear reactor to produce electric power, which went live on December 20, 1951. Pic. | |||
||1907: The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected. Pic: statues. | |||
||1920: Mathematician Alfred William Goldie born. He will work in ring theory where he introduced the notion of the uniform dimension of a module, and the reduced rank of a module. He is well known for Goldie's theorem, which characterizes right Goldie rings. Indeed, his Independent obituary described him as the "Lord of the Rings". Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Goldie_Alfred.html | |||
||1934: Howard Martin Temin born ... geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1959: [[Chrome Plover]], the famed [[musical electroplating ensemble]], gives first public performance of ''Ada'', their tribute to [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]]. | |||
||1961: Oded Schramm born ... mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution (SLE) and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory. Pic. | |||
||1961: Nuclear weapon test Gnome is detonated, with a yield of 3.1 kilotons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gnome | |||
File:Gasbuggy Nuclear device.jpg|link=Project Gasbuggy (nonfiction)|1967: [[Project Gasbuggy (nonfiction)|Project Gasbuggy]] underground nuclear test detonation in rural northern New Mexico. Its purpose was to determine if nuclear explosions could be useful in fracturing rock formations for natural gas extraction. | |||
||1968: Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo. Pic: aerial photo. | |||
||1973: Wolf V. Vishniac dies ... microbiologist and academic. Mars. Pic search. | |||
||1979: Robert Elderfield dies ... chemist. He established the fundamental relationship between the cardiac aglycones and the sterols and bile acids, developed improved techniques for synthesizing primaquine and other antimalarials, and researched new anticancer agents. Pic. | |||
|File:Lorenz_attractor_trajectory-through-phase-space.gif|link=Lorenz system (nonfiction)|1989: Animated [[Lorenz system (nonfiction)|Lorenz system]] diagram celebrates the life and work of [[Ada Lovelace (nonfiction)|Ada Lovelace]]. | |||
||1995: Sarvadaman D. S. Chowla dies ... mathematician, specializing in number theory. Among his contributions are a number of results which bear his name: the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem, the Ankeny–Artin–Chowla congruence, the Chowla–Mordell theorem, and the Chowla–Selberg formula, and the Mian–Chowla sequence. Pic: http://www3.canisius.edu/~huard/chowla.html | |||
||1998: Wang Ganchang dies ... nuclear physicist. He was one of the founding fathers of Chinese nuclear physics, cosmic rays and particle physics. Pic. | |||
||2009: Vladimir Teplyakov dies ... 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. | |||
||2010: John Fenn dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||2011: Ernst Paul Specker dies ... mathematician. Much of his most influential work was on Quine’s New Foundations, a set theory with a universal set, but he is most famous for the Kochen–Specker theorem in quantum mechanics, showing that certain types of hidden variable theories are impossible. Pic. | |||
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1198: Polymath Ibn Rushd (Averoess) dies. He wrote on logic, Aristotelian and Islamic philosophy, theology, the Maliki school of Islamic jurisprudence, psychology, political and Andalusian classical music theory, geography, mathematics, and the mediæval sciences of medicine, astronomy, physics, and celestial mechanics.
1452: Mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, priest, maker of astronomical instruments, and professor Johannes Stöffler born.
1684: Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley.
1804: Mathematician and academic Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi born. He will make fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, dynamics, differential equations, and number theory.
1815: Mathematician and writer Ada Lovelace born. She will do pioneering work in symbolic languages for machine processes, developing what will later be called computer programs for Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine.
1831: Physicist and academic Thomas Johann Seebeck dies. He discovered the thermoelectric effect.
1860: Physicist Margaret Eliza Maltby born. She will contribute to the measurement of high electrolytic resistances and conductivity of very dilute solutions.
1959: Chrome Plover, the famed musical electroplating ensemble, gives first public performance of Ada, their tribute to Ada Lovelace.
1967: Project Gasbuggy underground nuclear test detonation in rural northern New Mexico. Its purpose was to determine if nuclear explosions could be useful in fracturing rock formations for natural gas extraction.