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File:Curie_and_radium_by_Castaigne.jpg|link=Radium (nonfiction)|1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of [[Radium (nonfiction)|radium]]. | File:Curie_and_radium_by_Castaigne.jpg|link=Radium (nonfiction)|1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of [[Radium (nonfiction)|radium]]. | ||
||1914: Richard Hubert Bruck born ... mathematician best known for his work in the field of algebra, especially in its relation to projective geometry and combinatorics. Pic. | ||1914: Richard Hubert Bruck born ... mathematician best known for his work in the field of algebra, especially in its relation to projective geometry and combinatorics. Pic. | ||
||1926: Ali Javan born ... physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Pic. | ||1926: Ali Javan born ... physicist and inventor. He was the first to propose the concept of the gas laser in 1959 at the Bell Telephone Laboratories. Pic. | ||
||1944: Henri Lafont (real name Henri Chamberlin) executed by firing squad ... head of the French Gestapo during the German occupation in World War II. Pic. | |||
||1956: Preston Tucker dies ... engineer and businessman, designed the Tucker Sedan. Pic. | ||1956: Preston Tucker dies ... engineer and businessman, designed the Tucker Sedan. Pic. | ||
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||1979: Helmut Hasse dies ... mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of p-adic numbers to local class field theory and diophantine geometry (Hasse principle), and to local zeta functions. Pic. | ||1979: Helmut Hasse dies ... mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of p-adic numbers to local class field theory and diophantine geometry (Hasse principle), and to local zeta functions. Pic. | ||
||1981: Henry Eyring dies ... chemist ... chemical reaction rates and intermediates. Pic. | |||
||1991: The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union. | ||1991: The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union. | ||
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||1999: Vitold Belevitch dies ... mathematician and electrical engineer of Russian origin who produced some important work in the field of electrical network theory. Pic. | ||1999: Vitold Belevitch dies ... mathematician and electrical engineer of Russian origin who produced some important work in the field of electrical network theory. Pic. | ||
File:Martin David Kruskal.jpg|link=Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|2006: Physicist and mathematician [[Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|Martin David Kruskal]] dies. | File:Martin David Kruskal.jpg|link=Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|2006: Physicist and mathematician [[Martin David Kruskal (nonfiction)|Martin David Kruskal]] dies. Kruskal made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons. | ||
||2007: Wilfred Kaplan dies ... professor of mathematics. His research focused on dynamical systems, the topology of curve families, complex function theory, and differential equations. Pic. | ||2007: Wilfred Kaplan dies ... professor of mathematics. His research focused on dynamical systems, the topology of curve families, complex function theory, and differential equations. Pic. | ||
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|File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|2016: Survey data reveals widespread [[Scrimshaw abuse|Scrimshaw binging]] the day after Christmas. | |File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|2016: Survey data reveals widespread [[Scrimshaw abuse|Scrimshaw binging]] the day after Christmas. | ||
||2016: Frances Gabe dies ... artist and inventor ... self-cleaning house. Pic search | ||2016: Frances Gabe dies ... artist and inventor ... self-cleaning house. Pic search. | ||
||2018: Lawrence Roberts dies ... was an American engineer who received the Draper Prize in 2001 "for the development of the Internet". As a program manager and office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Roberts and his team created the ARPANET (a predecessor to the modern Internet) using packet switching techniques. Pic. | ||2018: Lawrence Roberts dies ... was an American engineer who received the Draper Prize in 2001 "for the development of the Internet". As a program manager and office director at the Advanced Research Projects Agency, Roberts and his team created the ARPANET (a predecessor to the modern Internet) using packet switching techniques. Pic. | ||
Latest revision as of 17:33, 7 February 2022
1791: Polymath Charles Babbage born. He will construct mechanical computers which anticipate the concept of programmable digital computers.
1896: Physician and physiologist Emil du Bois-Reymond dies. He discovered nerve action potential, and developed experimental electrophysiology.
1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
2006: Physicist and mathematician Martin David Kruskal dies. Kruskal made fundamental contributions in many areas of mathematics and science, including the discovery and theory of solitons.
2019: Karl Jones takes a photograph of himself wearing red and green Christmas lights.