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||1719: Johann Friedrich Böttger dies ... chemist and potter ... credited with being the first European to discover the secret of the creation of hard-paste porcelain in 1708. Pic.


File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1764: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] born. His government will see the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
File:Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey by Sir Thomas Lawrence copy.jpg|link=Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|1764: [[Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey (nonfiction)|Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey]] born. His government will see the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.
|link=William Herschel (nonfiction)|1781: Astronomer [[William Herschel (nonfiction)|William Herschel]] discovers Uranus. Pic.
||1781: Joseph Johann von Littrow born ... astronomer. Pic.
||1842: Joseph Valentin Boussinesq born ... mathematician and physicist who made significant contributions to the theory of hydrodynamics, vibration, light, and heat. Pic.
||1855: Percival Lowell born ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic.
||1872: Léon Delagrange born ... pilot and sculptor. Pic.
||1879: Adolf Anderssen dies ... mathematician and chess player. Pic.
||1887: Raymond Thayer Birge born ... physicist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=raymond+thayer+birge
||1899: John Hasbrouck Van Vleck born ... physicist and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1900: Giorgos or George Seferis born ... Greek poet-diplomat. He was one of the most important Greek poets of the 20th century, and a Nobel laureate. He was a career diplomat in the Greek Foreign Service. Pic.


File:Myrtle_Bachelder_-_1942.jpg|link=Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|1908: Chemist and US military officer [[Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|Myrtle Bachelder]] born. Bachelder will be responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder will make pioneering contributions to metallochemistry.
File:Myrtle_Bachelder_-_1942.jpg|link=Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|1908: Chemist and US military officer [[Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|Myrtle Bachelder]] born. Bachelder will be responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder will make pioneering contributions to metallochemistry.


File:Melvin Dresher.jpg|link=Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|1911: Mathematician [[Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Melvin Dresher]] (Dreszer) born. Dresher will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.
File:Melvin Dresher.jpg|link=Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|1911: Mathematician [[Melvin Dresher (nonfiction)|Melvin Dresher]] (Dreszer) born. Dresher will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.
||1916: Jacque Fresco born ... engineer and academic. Pic.
||1925: Gabriel Andrew Dirac born ... mathematician who mainly worked in graph theory. He stated a sufficient condition for a graph to contain a Hamiltonian circuit. In 1951 he conjectured that n points in the plane, not all collinear, must span at least [n/2] two-point lines, where [x] is the largest integer not exceeding x. This conjecture is still open. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Gabriel+Andrew+Dirac
||1930: The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
||1937: Lars Edvard Phragmén dies ... mathematician. Pic.
||1962: Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position. Pic.
||1965: Corrado Gini dies ... sociologist and statistician, Italian Fascism, eugenics. Pic search.
||1968: In the days preceding the Dugway sheep incident the United States Army at Dugway Proving Ground conducted at least three separate operations involving nerve agents. All three operations occurred on March 13, 1968. One involved the test firing of a chemical artillery shell, another the burning of 160 U.S. gallons (600 litres) of nerve agent in an open air pit and in the third a jet aircraft sprayed nerve agent in a target area about 27 mi (43 km) west of Skull Valley. It is the third event that is usually connected to the Skull Valley sheep kill.
||1969: Apollo program: Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
||1987: Peter Karl Henrici dies ... mathematician best known for his contributions to the field of numerical analysis. Pic.
||1995: Odette Hallowes dies ... soldier and spy, SOE. Pic.
||1997: The Phoenix Lights are seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television.
||1998: Hans von Ohain born ... physicist and engineer. Designed the first operational jet engine. Pic.
||2012: Michael P. Barnett dies ... chemist and computer scientist. Pic search.
||2013: Cartha DeLoach dies ... FBI agent and author. Pic.
||2015: Jenifer Wheildon Brown dies ... physicist and computer scientist. She is most noted for her formulation of ray tracing equations in a cold magneto-plasma, now widely known in the radio science community as Haselgrove's Equations. Pic search.


File:Hilary Putnam.jpg|link=Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist [[Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|Hilary Putnam]] dies. Putnam argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".
File:Hilary Putnam.jpg|link=Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist [[Hilary Putnam (nonfiction)|Hilary Putnam]] dies. Putnam argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".

Revision as of 06:09, 13 March 2022

  • 1764: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey born. His government will see the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.

    1764: Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey born. His government will see the abolition of slavery in the British Empire.

  • 1908: Chemist and US military officer Myrtle Bachelder born. Bachelder will be responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder will make pioneering contributions to metallochemistry.

    1908: Chemist and US military officer Myrtle Bachelder born. Bachelder will be responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder will make pioneering contributions to metallochemistry.

  • 1911: Mathematician Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) born. Dresher will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.

    1911: Mathematician Melvin Dresher (Dreszer) born. Dresher will contribute to game theory, co-developing the game theoretical model of cooperation and conflict known as the Prisoner's dilemma.

  • 2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist Hilary Putnam dies. Putnam argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".

    2016: Philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist Hilary Putnam dies. Putnam argued for the reality of mathematical entities, later espousing the view that mathematics is not purely logical, but "quasi-empirical".

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