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File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1546: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] born. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time. | File:Tycho Brahe.jpg|link=Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|1546: Astronomer [[Tycho Brahe (nonfiction)|Tycho Brahe]] born. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time. | ||
File: | File:Montgolfier first public balloon flight.jpg|link=Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|1782: The [[Montgolfier brothers (nonfiction)|Montgolfier brothers]]' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight. Shown here: first public flight (June 4, 1783). | ||
||1865: Johan Georg Forchhammer dies ... geologist and mineralogist. Forchhammer conjectured that the ratio of major salts in samples of seawater from various locations was constant. This constant ratio is known as Forchhammer's Principle, or the Principle of Constant Proportions. Pic. | |||
|| | ||1879: French Army officer and inventor Claude-Etienne Minié dies. He will gain fame for solving the problem of designing a reliable muzzle-loading rifle by inventing the Minié ball in 1846, and the Minié rifle in 1849. Pic. | ||
|link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1900: Quantum mechanics: Physicist [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law. | |link=Max Planck (nonfiction)|1900: Quantum mechanics: Physicist [[Max Planck (nonfiction)|Max Planck]] presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law. | ||
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File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1922: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] born. He will do fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics. | File:Nikolay Basov.jpg|link=Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|1922: Physicist and educator [[Nikolay Basov (nonfiction)|Nikolay Basov]] born. He will do fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics. | ||
||1927: Julian Sochocki dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Julian+Sochocki | ||1927: Julian Sochocki dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Julian+Sochocki | ||
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File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1940: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California. | File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1940: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California. | ||
File:Cathode ray tube amusement device schematic.jpg|link=Cathode-ray tube amusement device (nonfiction)|1947: Thomas Goldsmith Jr. is granted a patent for a "[[Cathode-ray tube amusement device (nonfiction)|Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device]]", the first ever electronic game. | File:Cathode ray tube amusement device schematic.jpg|link=Cathode-ray tube amusement device (nonfiction)|1947: Thomas Goldsmith Jr. is granted a patent for a "[[Cathode-ray tube amusement device (nonfiction)|Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device]]", the first ever electronic game. | ||
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||File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1978: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] blamed for new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1978: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] blamed for new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1989: Andrei Sakharov dies ... physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1989: Andrei Sakharov dies ... physicist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||2009: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) launched ... NASA infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope launched in December 2009, and placed in hibernation in February 2011.It was re-activated in 2013. WISE discovered thousands of minor planets and numerous star clusters. Its observations also supported the discovery of the first Y Dwarf and Earth trojan asteroid. Pic. | ||2009: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) launched ... NASA infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope launched in December 2009, and placed in hibernation in February 2011.It was re-activated in 2013. WISE discovered thousands of minor planets and numerous star clusters. Its observations also supported the discovery of the first Y Dwarf and Earth trojan asteroid. Pic. | ||
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File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2 orbiter]] beginning its extended mission. | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2 orbiter]] beginning its extended mission. | ||
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Latest revision as of 17:16, 7 February 2022
1546: Astronomer Tycho Brahe born. He will make observations some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.
1782: The Montgolfier brothers' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight. Shown here: first public flight (June 4, 1783).
1922: Physicist and educator Nikolay Basov born. He will do fundamental work in the field of quantum electronics.
1940: Plutonium (specifically Pu-238) is first isolated at Berkeley, California.
1947: Thomas Goldsmith Jr. is granted a patent for a "Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device", the first ever electronic game.
1953: Anthropologist, ethnobotanist, author, and photographer Wade Davis born.
1976: Viking program: The Viking 2 orbiter begins its extended mission.
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars celebrates the forty-first anniversary of the Viking 2 orbiter beginning its extended mission.