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||1204 – Maimonides, Spanish rabbi and philosopher (b. 1135)
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||1128: "In the third year of Lothar, emperor of the Romans, in the twenty-eighth year of King Henry of the English…on Saturday, 8 December, there appeared from the morning right up to the evening two black spheres against the sun." This description of sunspots, and the earliest known drawing of sunspots, appears in John of Worcester’s Chronicle recorded in 1128. On the night of 13 December 1128, astronomers in Songdo, Korea, witnessed a red vapour that "soared and filled the sky" from the northwest to the southwest. A delay of five days is the average delay between the occurrence of a large sunspot group near the center of the Sun – exactly as witnessed by John of Worcester – and the appearance of the aurora borealis in the night sky at relatively low latitudes *Joe Hanson, itsokaytobesmart.com


File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1516: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.
File:Johannes Trithemius.jpg|link=Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|1516: Polymath [[Johannes Trithemius (nonfiction)|Johannes Trithemius]] dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.


||1557 – Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician and engineer (b. 1499)
||1532: Solomon Molcho born ... mystic. No DOB. Pic: signature.
 
||1557: Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia dies ... mathematician and engineer. No DOB. Pic.
 
||1640: Robert Plot born ... naturalist, first Professor of Chemistry at the University of Oxford, and the first keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Pic.


||1662 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer and philosopher (d. 1729)
File:Francesco_Bianchini.png|link=Francesco Bianchini (nonfiction)|1662: Astronomer and philosopher Francesco Bianchini born. Bianchini will be secretary of the Papal commission for the reform of the calendar, working on the method to calculate the astronomically correct date for Easter in a given year.


File:John Pell.jpg|link=John Pell (nonfiction)|1675: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]] publishes new theory of equations with applications in the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1724: Franz Aepinus born ... astronomer and philosopher. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Posters2/Aepinus.html


||1724 – Franz Aepinus, German astronomer and philosopher (d. 1802)
||1780: Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner born ... chemist who is best known for work that foreshadowed the periodic law for the chemical elements and inventing the first lighter, which was known as the Döbereiner's lamp. Pic.


||1780 – Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, German chemist, invented the Döbereiner's lamp (d. 1849)
||1783: Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin dies ... astronomer and demographer. Pic.


||1783 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer and demographer (b. 1717). Pic.
||1784: Samuel Johnson dies ... lexicographer and poet. Pic.


||1816 – Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded Siemens (d. 1892)
||1816: Werner von Siemens born ... engineer and businessman, founded Siemens. Pic.


||Francesco Brioschi (d. 13 December 1897) was an Italian mathematician.
||1848: Enrico Forlanini born ... engineer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer, known for his works on helicopters, aircraft, hydrofoils and dirigibles. Pic.


||Enrico Forlanini (b. 13 December 1848) was an Italian engineer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer, known for his works on helicopters, aircraft, hydrofoils and dirigibles.
||1849: Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski born ... soldier, military engineer and inventor. He is best known for the development of the pneumatic dynamite torpedo-gun. Pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund_Zalinski.jpeg


||1867 – Kristian Birkeland, Norwegian physicist and author (d. 1917)
||1867: Kristian Birkeland born ... physicist and author. Pic (cool).


||William Chauvenet (d. 13 December 1870) was a professor of mathematics, astronomy, navigation, and surveying who was instrumental in the establishment of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and later the second chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Pic.
||1870: William Chauvenet dies ... mathematics, astronomy, navigation, and surveying who was instrumental in the establishment of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and later the second chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Pic.


||1885 – Annie Dale Biddle Andrews, American mathematician (d. 1940)
||1885: Annie Dale Biddle Andrews born ... mathematician. Pic: https://ict22wildcats.weebly.com/female-mathematicians.html but see also library.


File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] born.  He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.
File:George_Pólya_circa_1973.jpg|link=George Pólya (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician [[George Pólya (nonfiction)|George Pólya]] born.  He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.


||Alfred Landé (b. 13 December 1888) was a German-American physicist known for his contributions to quantum theory. He is responsible for the Landé g-factor and an explanation of the Zeeman effect.
||1888: Alfred Landé born ... physicist known for his contributions to quantum theory. He is responsible for the Landé g-factor and an explanation of the Zeeman effect. Pic.
 
||1891: Jean Servais Stas dies ... chemist, notable for his accurate determinations of atomic weights. He had worked under the direction of Dumas, with whom he established the atomic weight of carbon. Stas worked assiduously to make more accurate measurements of other atomic weights than had ever been done before. Stas wished to prove the hypothesis of Joseph Proust, that all atoms were conglomerations of hydrogen atoms, though this could not be achieved. Stas was probably the most skillful chemical analyst of the nineteenth century. Pic.
 
||1895: Ányos Jedlik dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.
 
||1897: Francesco Brioschi dies ... mathematician. Pic.
 
File:Emmy Noether.jpg|link=Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|1907: Mathematician and adacemic [[Emmy Noether (nonfiction)|Emmy Noether]] receives her Ph.D. degree, ''summa cum laude'', from the University of Erlangen, for a dissertation on algebraic invariants directed by Paul Gordan.
 
||1908: Leon Bankoff born ... dentist, mathematician and Esperantist. He was responsible for the publication of some 300 top problems in the area of plane geometry, particularly Morley's trisector theorem, and the arbelos of Archimedes. Among his discoveries with the arbelos was the Bankoff circle, which is equal in area to Archimedes' twin circles. Pic: http://math.fau.edu/yiu/AEG2013/BankoffCMJ.pdf
 
||1908: Elizabeth Alexander born ... geologist, academic, and physicist. Pic.
 
||1910: Charles Alfred Coulson born ... applied mathematician, theoretical chemist and religious author. His major scientific work was as a pioneer of the application of the quantum theory of valency to problems of molecular structure, dynamics and reactivity. Pic: http://www.quantum-chemistry-history.com/Coulson1.htm
 
||1911: Trygve Haavelmo born ... economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
 
||1912: Heinz Schlicke born ... engineer and author, an Operation Paperclip scientist, and engineer at the Allen-Bradley Co. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Pic.
 
||1919: Woldemar Voigt dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
 
File:Max_Noether_(between_1870_and_1875).jpg|link=Max Noether (nonfiction)|1921: Mathematician [[Max Noether (nonfiction)|Max Noether]] dies. Noether contributed to algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He was the father of mathematician Emmy Noether.
 
||1921: David Gale born ... mathematician and economist. He was a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with the departments of mathematics, economics, and industrial engineering and operations research. He has contributed to the fields of mathematical economics, game theory, and convex analysis. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=david+gale


||1895 – Ányos Jedlik, Hungarian physicist and engineer (b. 1800)
||1923: Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... alive August 2018 ... philosophy of science through his writings on emergent phenomena.


||1908 – Elizabeth Alexander, British geologist, academic, and physicist (d. 1958)
||1927: Mehmet Nadir dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic (with daughter).


||1911 – Trygve Haavelmo, Norwegian economist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1999)
||1930: Fritz Pregl dies ... chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1919 – Woldemar Voigt, German physicist and academic (b. 1850)
||1935: Victor Grignard dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||Max Noether (d. 13 December 1921) was a German mathematician who worked on algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He has been called "one of the finest mathematicians of the nineteenth century". He was the father of Emmy Noether. Pic.
||1950: Abraham Wald dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||David Gale (b. December 13, 1921) was an American mathematician and economist. He was a professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, affiliated with the departments of mathematics, economics, and industrial engineering and operations research. He has contributed to the fields of mathematical economics, game theory, and convex analysis.
||1957: Niels Bohr comes to Univ of Oklahoma for lecture on "Atoms and Human Knowledge." Jens Rud Nielsen, who joined the OU Physics Department in 1924, was an undergraduate student of Bohr in Denmark. Bohr, one of the founders of quantum mechanics, made two trips to the University of Oklahoma, first in 1937 and again in 1957. *U of Ok digital collection ... Pic: Poster


||1923 – Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
||1962: NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit. Pic.


||1927 – Mehmet Nadir, Turkish mathematician and academic (b. 1856)
||1972: Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.


||1930 – Fritz Pregl, Slovenian-Austrian chemist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
||1974: John G. Bennett dies ... mathematician and technologist. Pic.


||1935 – Victor Grignard, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1871)
||1976: Geneve Lucy Angela Shaffer dies ... realtor, lecturer and author. In 1909 she was touted by the San Francisco Call as "the first woman in the world to sail in a flying machine". Pic.


||1950 – Abraham Wald, Hungarian mathematician and academic (b. 1902)
||1997: Alexander Oppenheim born ... mathematician. In mathematics, his most notable contribution is his Oppenheim conjecture. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Oppenheim.html


||1962 – NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
File:David Wheeler.jpg|link=David Wheeler (nonfiction)|2004: Computer scientist and academic [[David Wheeler (nonfiction)|David Wheeler]] dies. He contributed to the development of the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT); helped develop the subroutine; and gave the first explanation of how to design software libraries.


||1972 – Apollo program: Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt begin the third and final extra-vehicular activity (EVA) or "Moonwalk" of Apollo 17. To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.
File:Akiva Yaglom.jpg|link=Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|2007: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist [[Akiva Yaglom (nonfiction)|Akiva Yaglom]] dies. He contributed to statistical turbulence theory and random process theory.


||Geneve Lucy Angela Shaffer (d. December 13, 1976) was a American realtor, lecturer and author. In 1909 she was touted by the San Francisco Call as "the first woman in the world to sail in a flying machine".
||2012: The Chinese lunar probe Chang'e 2 departed from the Sun–Earth L2 point in April 2012[27] and made a flyby of Toutatis on 13 December 2012, with closest approach being 3.2 kilometers and a relative velocity of 10.73 km/s, when Toutatis was near its closest approach to Earth.[10][28][29] It took several pictures of the asteroid, revealing it to be a dusty red/orange color. Pic.


||2004 – David Wheeler, English computer scientist and academic (b. 1927)
||2018: Timothy May dies ... technical and political writer, and was an electronic engineer and senior scientist at Intel in the company's early history. Pic: https://en.m.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/File:Tim_may.jpg#mw-jump-to-license


||File:Ridley-Scott-researching-Alien.jpg|link=Ridley Scott|2012: Documentary film-maker [[Ridley Scott]] meets his Kickstarter goal for new film named ''[[Alien (film) (nonfiction)|Alien]]''.
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  • 1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.

    1516: Polymath Johannes Trithemius dies. He is remembered as a lexicographer, chronicler, cryptographer, and occultist.

  • 1662: Astronomer and philosopher Francesco Bianchini born. Bianchini will be secretary of the Papal commission for the reform of the calendar, working on the method to calculate the astronomically correct date for Easter in a given year.

    1662: Astronomer and philosopher Francesco Bianchini born. Bianchini will be secretary of the Papal commission for the reform of the calendar, working on the method to calculate the astronomically correct date for Easter in a given year.

  • 1887: Mathematician George Pólya born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.

    1887: Mathematician George Pólya born. He will make fundamental contributions to combinatorics, number theory, numerical analysis and probability theory.

  • 1907: Mathematician and adacemic Emmy Noether receives her Ph.D. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Erlangen, for a dissertation on algebraic invariants directed by Paul Gordan.

    1907: Mathematician and adacemic Emmy Noether receives her Ph.D. degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Erlangen, for a dissertation on algebraic invariants directed by Paul Gordan.

  • 1921: Mathematician Max Noether dies. Noether contributed to algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He was the father of mathematician Emmy Noether.

    1921: Mathematician Max Noether dies. Noether contributed to algebraic geometry and the theory of algebraic functions. He was the father of mathematician Emmy Noether.

  • 2004: Computer scientist and academic David Wheeler dies. He contributed to the development of the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT); helped develop the subroutine; and gave the first explanation of how to design software libraries.

    2004: Computer scientist and academic David Wheeler dies. He contributed to the development of the Electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) and the Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT); helped develop the subroutine; and gave the first explanation of how to design software libraries.

  • 2007: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist Akiva Yaglom dies. He contributed to statistical turbulence theory and random process theory.

    2007: Physicist, mathematician, statistician, and meteorologist Akiva Yaglom dies. He contributed to statistical turbulence theory and random process theory.

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