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||1644: Jan Baptist van Helmont | ||1644: Jan Baptist van Helmont born ... chemist, physiologist, and physician. He worked during the years just after Paracelsus and the rise of iatrochemistry, and is sometimes considered to be "the founder of pneumatic chemistry". Van Helmont is remembered today largely for his ideas on spontaneous generation, his 5-year tree experiment, and his introduction of the word "gas" (from the Greek word ''chaos'') into the vocabulary of science. Pic. | ||
File:Sir_Samuel_Morland_by_Sir_Peter_Lely.jpg|link=Samuel Morland (nonfiction)|1695: Academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician [[Samuel Morland (nonfiction)|Samuel Morland]] dies. Morland contributed to early developments in computing, hydraulics, and steam power. | |||
File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist. | File:Osman Hamdi Bey.jpg|link=|link=Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|1842: [[Osman Hamdi Bey (nonfiction)|Osman Hamdi Bey]] born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist. | ||
||1897: Stanisław Saks born ... mathematician and university tutor, a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics, known primarily for his membership in the Scottish Café circle, an extensive monograph on the theory of integrals, his works on measure theory and the Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem. Pic. | File:Den Overraskende Veludstyrede Lille Kanonbåd.jpg|link=Den Overraskende Veludstyrede Lille Kanonbåd|1850: Publication of '''''[[Den Overraskende Veludstyrede Lille Kanonbåd]]''''' ("The Surprisingly Well-Equipped Small Gunboat") by Danish author and military historiographer Hans Christian Andersen. | ||
||1869: Emilie Norton Martin born ... mathematician and academic. She will research primitive substitution groups of degree 15 and primitive substitution groups of degree 18. Pic (nice). | |||
File:Pekka Myrberg.jpg|link=Pekka Myrberg (nonfiction)|1892: Mathematician [[Pekka Myrberg (nonfiction)|Pekka Myrberg]] born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou. | |||
||1897: Stanisław Saks born ... mathematician and university tutor, a member of the Lwów School of Mathematics, known primarily for his membership in the Scottish Café circle, an extensive monograph on the theory of integrals, his works on measure theory and the Vitali–Hahn–Saks theorem. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Stanis%C5%82aw-Saks/6000000014876185057 | |||
||1905: Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell. | ||1903: Hermann Oestrich born ... engineer. He was involved in the development of jet engines as an employee of BMW and later of SNECMA. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hermann+Oestrich | ||
||1905: Former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated at the front gate of his home in Caldwell. Pic. | |||
File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1916: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] dies. | File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1916: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] dies. | ||
||1924: Yvonne Brill born ... propulsion engineer ... hydrazine resistojet. | ||1924: Yvonne Brill born ... propulsion engineer ... hydrazine resistojet. Pic. | ||
||1934: John N. Bahcall born ... astrophysicist and astronomer ... best known for his contributions to the solar neutrino problem, the development of the Hubble Space Telescope, and for his leadership and development of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Pic. | |||
|| | ||1938: Howell Peregrine born ... applied mathematician noted for his contributions to fluid mechanics, especially of free surface flows such as water waves, and coastal engineering. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1940: Childe Wills dies ... engineer ... chief contributor to the design of the Model T. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1941: Andrew Alexander Ranicki born ... mathematician who worked on algebraic topology. More: https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~v1ranick/surgery/bio.htm Pic. | ||
File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy. | File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1947: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy. | ||
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File:Van meegeren trial.jpg|link=Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|1947: Painter and forger [[Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|Han van Meegeren]] dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century. | File:Van meegeren trial.jpg|link=Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|1947: Painter and forger [[Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|Han van Meegeren]] dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century. | ||
||1956: Heinrich Scholz dies ... logician, philosopher, and Protestant theologian. Pic. | |||
||1958: Criticality accident occurred on December 30, 1958, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico, in the United States. The accident involved plutonium compounds dissolved in liquid chemical reagents; within 35 hours, it killed chemical operator Cecil Kelley by severe radiation poisoning. | |||
||1965: Statistician and academic Evelyn Fix dies ... She and Joseph Hodges, Jr. will publish a groundbreaking paper, "Discriminatory Analysis. Nonparametric Discrimination: Consistency Properties," which defines the nearest neighbor rule, an important method which will later become a key piece of machine learning technologies, the k-Nearest Neighbor (k-NN) algorithm. Pic: https://statistics.berkeley.edu/history/biographies/evelyn-fix | |||
||1971: Vikram Sarabhai dies ... physicist and academic ... father Indian space program. Pic. | |||
||1982: Philip Hall dies ... mathematician. His major work was on group theory, notably on finite groups and solvable groups. Pic. | |||
||1991: Marcus Morton Rhoades dies ... cytogeneticist. His research on maize led to important discoveries for basic genetics and the applied science of plant breeding. He was one of the first cytogenecists to document the pre-meiotic pairing of homologous chromosomes in maize, otherwise referred as somatic pairing (Singh, 2003), and the first to document an instance of meiotic drive, a Mendelian inheritance caused by preferential segregation of certain versions of homologous chromosomes during meiosis. Rhoades' also pioneered work in nuclear-cytoplasmic interactions. Pic: https://www.nap.edu/read/5859/chapter/18 | |||
|| | ||1993: Giuseppe Occhialini dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1994: Dmitri Ivanenko dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=dmitri+ivanenko | ||
|| | ||1999: Fritz Leonhardt dies ... engineer ... made major contributions to 20th-century bridge engineering, especially in the development of cable-stayed bridges. His book ''Bridges: Aesthetics and Design'' is well known throughout the bridge engineering community. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=fritz+leonhardt | ||
|| | ||2001: Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakalyukin dies ... mathematician known for his research on singularity theory, differential equations, and optimal control theory. Pic: http://www.cmapx.polytechnique.fr/~boscain/volodia.html | ||
|| | ||2009: Mohamed M. Atalla born ...engineer, physical chemist, cryptographer, inventor and entrepreneur. His pioneering work in semiconductor technology laid the foundations for modern electronics. Pic. | ||
||2011: Ronald Searle dies ... cartoonist. | ||2011: Ronald Searle dies ... cartoonist, St. Trinian's School. Pic. | ||
||2012: Rita Levi-Montalcini dies ... neurologist and academic | ||2012: Rita Levi-Montalcini dies ... neurologist and academic ... 1986 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly with colleague Stanley Cohen for the discovery of nerve growth factor (NGF). Pic. | ||
||2012: Carl Woese dies ... microbiologist and biophysicist. | ||2012: Carl Woese dies ... microbiologist and biophysicist. Pic. | ||
File:Paul Sally 2008.jpg|link=Paul Sally (nonfiction)|2013: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Sally (nonfiction)|Paul Sally]] dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago". | File:Paul Sally 2008.jpg|link=Paul Sally (nonfiction)|2013: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Sally (nonfiction)|Paul Sally]] dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago". | ||
||2017: George B. Purdy dies ... mathematician and computer scientist who specialized in cryptography, combinatorial geometry and number theory. Pic: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/cincinnati/obituary.aspx?n=george-b-purdy&pid=187736433&fhid=27748 | |||
||2017: Tsuneo Tamagawa dies ... mathematician. He worked on the arithmetic of classical groups, introducing the Tamagawa numbers, which are measures for algebraic groups over algebraic number fields; these measures play an essential role in conjectures on arithmetic algebraic geometry. Pic search. | |||
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Latest revision as of 17:42, 7 February 2022
1695: Academic, diplomat, spy, inventor and mathematician Samuel Morland dies. Morland contributed to early developments in computing, hydraulics, and steam power.
1842: Osman Hamdi Bey born. He will be an administrator, intellectual, art expert, painter, and archaeologist.
1850: Publication of Den Overraskende Veludstyrede Lille Kanonbåd ("The Surprisingly Well-Equipped Small Gunboat") by Danish author and military historiographer Hans Christian Andersen.
1892: Mathematician Pekka Myrberg born. He will do fundamental work on the iteration of rational functions (especially quadratic functions), developing the concept of period-doubling. Myrberg's research will revive interest in the results of Gaston Julia and Pierre Fatou.
1916: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin dies.
1947: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead dies. He was a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1947: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren dies. He was one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
2013: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally dies. He was known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".