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File:Maimonides.jpg|link=Maimonides (nonfiction)|1204: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician [[Maimonides (nonfiction)|Maimonides]] dies.
 
File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1685: Mathematician [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] dies.  He expanded the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.
File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1685: Mathematician [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] dies.  He expanded the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.
||1777: Anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet Albrecht von Haller dies. Von Haller is often referred to as "the father of modern physiology."
||1792: Arthur Lee dies ... physician, diplomat, spy. Pic: coat of arms.
||1832: Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow born ... mathematician who proved foundational results in group theory. Pic.
||1838: Sherburne Wesley Burnham born ... astronomer. For more than fifty years he spent all his free time observing the heavens, principally concerning himself with binary stars. During the 1840s it was believed that essentially all the binary stars visible to the instruments of the day had been discovered; Burnham found 451 new ones from 1872 to 1877. Pic.
||1843: Marcel Deprez born ... electrical engineer. Pic.
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1862: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1862: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1994: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] sell for 1.7 million dollars.
 
File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|2007: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]].
||1866: Alfred Werner born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1871: Spectroscopic observations of an eclipse in India made by French astronomer Jules Janssen led him to propose that the corona, normally only visible during a solar eclipse, is a physical part of the Sun and is composed of both hot gases and cooler particles.*TIS Pic.
 
||1887: Guido Ascoli born ... mathematician, known for his contributions to the theory of partial differential equations, and for his works on the teaching of mathematics in secondary high schools. Pic.
 
||1888: Theodore Willard Case born ... chemist, physicist, and inventor known for the invention of the Movietone sound-on-film sound film system. Pic.
 
||1889: Viktor Bunyakovsky dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic, also pics: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Bunyakovsky.html
 
||1897: Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, is founded.
 
||1900: Mária Telkes born ... biophysicist, scientist and inventor who worked on solar energy technologies. Telkes is considered one of the founders of solar thermal storage systems, earning her the nickname "the Sun Queen". Pic.
 
File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1901: [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
 
||1902: John Ashworth Ratcliffe born ... radio physicist. Pic search.
 
||1906: Nelson Dunford born ... mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis, namely integration of vector valued functions, ergodic theory, and linear operators. The Dunford decomposition, Dunford–Pettis property, and Dunford-Schwartz theorem bear his name. Pic search.
 
||1920: Fred Kida dies ... illustrator ... Airboy. Pic.
 
File:Henrietta Swan Leavitt.jpg|link=Henrietta Swan Leavitt (nonfiction)|1921: Astronomer [[Henrietta Swan Leavitt (nonfiction)|Henrietta Swan Leavitt]] dies. She discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
 
||1927: Seymour Ginsburg born ... pioneer of automata theory, formal language theory, and database theory, in particular; and computer science, in general. His work was influential in distinguishing theoretical Computer Science from the disciplines of Mathematics and Electrical Engineering. No pic online.
 
||1927: Robert Norton Noyce born ... engineer who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the realization of the first integrated circuit or microchip that fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name. Pic.
 
||1928: Stanley Mandelstam born ... theoretical physicist. He introduced the relativistically invariant Mandelstam variables into particle physics in 1958 as a convenient coordinate system for formulating his double dispersion relations. The double dispersion relations were a central tool in the bootstrap program which sought to formulate a consistent theory of infinitely many particle types of increasing spin. Pic seach.
 
||1955: English engineer Christopher Cockerell files the patent for his new invention, the hovercraft, a craft capable of traveling over land, water, mud or ice and other surfaces both at speed and when stationary. *Yovisto  Pic.
 
||1958: Milutin Milanković dies ... mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist. He gave two fundamental contributions to global science. The first contribution is the "Canon of the Earth’s Insolation", which characterizes the climates of all the planets of the Solar system. The second contribution is the explanation of Earth's long-term climate changes caused by changes in the position of the Earth in comparison to the Sun, now known as Milankovitch cycles. Pic.
 
||1961: OSCAR 1: The first amateur built satellite, is launched aboard an American Thor-Agena rocket. Pic.
 
File:Dr Robber.jpg|link=Dr. Robber|1966: The Beatles release '''[[Dr. Robber]]'''.
 
||1969: Years of Lead: Piazza Fontana bombing: The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.
 
||1886: Baron William Sylvester de Ropp, originally Sylvester Wilhelm Gotthard von der Ropp born ... British agent involved in dealings with Nazi Germany before and during the Second World War. He was described as one of the most "mysterious and influential clandestine operators" of the era. No DOD. Pic search.
 
||1997: Evgenii Landis dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
 
||2001: Ardito Desio dies ... geologist, mountaineer, and cartographer. Desio explored the mountains of Europe, Africa, Asian, and Antarctica. Pic (charming).
 
||2009: Eugene van Tamelen dies ... organic chemist who is especially recognized for his contributions to bioorganic chemistry. He pioneered in what is today called biomimetic synthesis. Pic search groovy.
 
||2012: North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using an Unha-3 carrier rocket.
 
||2014: Ivor Grattan-Guinness dies ... mathematician, historian, and academic. Pic.
 
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Latest revision as of 18:13, 7 February 2022

  • 1204: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician Maimonides dies.

    1204: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician Maimonides dies.

  • 1685: Mathematician John Pell dies. He expanded the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.

    1685: Mathematician John Pell dies. He expanded the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.

  • 1862: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.

    1862: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.

  • 1901: Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.

    1901: Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.

  • 1921: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt dies. She discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.

    1921: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt dies. She discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.

  • 1966: The Beatles release Dr. Robber.

    1966: The Beatles release Dr. Robber.

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