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||1553: Lucas Cranach the Elder dies ... painter and engraver. | |||
||1600: Nicolaus Reimers dies ... astronomer. Pic search (book cover, diagram): https://www.google.com/search?q=Nicolaus+Reimers | |||
File:Delmedigo.jpg|link=Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist [[Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|Joseph Solomon Delmedigo]] dies. His ''Elim'' (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory. | |||
||1708: Anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet Albrecht von Haller born. Von Haller is often referred to as "the father of modern physiology." Pic. | |||
||1758: Noah Webster born ... lexicographer. Pic. | |||
||1786: Alexander Wilson dies ... surgeon, type-founder, astronomer, mathematician and meteorologist. He was the first scientist to record the use of kites in meteorological investigations. No DOB. Pic. | |||
||1793: John Hunter dies ... surgeon and philosopher. Pic. | |||
File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1797: [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] records in his diary that he has discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem. | |||
||1804: Robert Stephenson born ... railway and civil engineer. The only son of [[George Stephenson (nonfiction)|George Stephenson]], the "Father of Railways", he built on the achievements of his father. Robert has been called the greatest engineer of the 19th century. | |||
File:William Rowan Hamilton.png|link=William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|1843: Sir [[William Rowan Hamilton (nonfiction)|William Rowan Hamilton]] comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers. | |||
||1846: William T. G. Morton first demonstrated ether anesthesia at the Massachusetts General Hospital in the Ether Dome. | |||
||1869: John Herbert de Paz Thorold Gosset born ... lawyer and an amateur mathematician. In mathematics, he is noted for discovering and classifying the semiregular polytopes in dimensions four and higher. No DOD. No pic online. | |||
||1869: The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered". | |||
||1878: Franz Reichelt born - tailor, inventor and parachuting pioneer, now sometimes referred to as the Flying Tailor, who is remembered for jumping to his death from the Eiffel Tower while testing a wearable parachute of his own design. Pic. | |||
||1879: Philip Edward Bertrand Jourdain born ...logician. He took a close interest in the paradoxes related to Russell's paradox, formulating the card paradox version of the liar paradox. Near the end of his life he became increasingly obsessed by trying to prove the axiom of choice, and published several incorrect proofs of it. Littlewood (1986, p.129) describes Jourdain on his deathbed still arguing with him about his (incorrect) proof of the axiom of choice. Pic: http://www.learn-math.info/mathematicians/historyDetail.htm?id=Jourdain | |||
||1881: Frederick Stratton born ... astrophysicist, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Cambridge from 1928 to 1947 and a decorated British Army officer. Cool pic. | |||
||1882: Ernst Erich Jacobsthal born ... mathematician. his dissertation, ''Anwendung einer Formel aus der Theorie der quadratischen Reste'' ("Application of a Formula from the Theory of Quadratic Remainders"), provided a proof that prime numbers of the form 4n + 1 are the sum of two square numbers. Pic: https://archiv.pressestelle.tu-berlin.de/doku/200jahre/ausstellung/2.etage/flure/nr.20/set20.3.htm | |||
||1918: Abraham Nemeth born ... mathematician, academic, and inventor. Nemeth was blind, and was known for developing a system for blind people to read and write mathematics. Pic: https://www.google.com/search?q=abraham+nemeth | |||
||1923: Cyril Ponnamperuma born ... scientist in the fields of chemical evolution and the origin of life. Pic. | |||
||1925: Mór Réthy (or Moritz Réthy) dies - mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1930: John Polkinghorne born - theoretical physicist, theologian, and Anglican priest. A prominent and leading voice explaining the relationship between science and religion. Pic. | |||
||1937: William Sealy Gosset dies ... statistician. He published under the pen name Student, and developed the Student's t-distribution. Pic. | |||
||1948: Karen Wetterhahn born ... chemist and academic born ... mercury poison death. Pic. | |||
||1958: Mike Muuss dies ... computer programmer, created Ping. Pic. | |||
||1964: With the success of the nuclear weapons test named "596", China became the world's fifth nuclear power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/596_(nuclear_test) | |||
||1968: United States athletes Tommie Smith and John Carlos are kicked off the US team for participating in the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute. | |||
||1970: In response to the October Crisis terrorist kidnapping, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau of Canada invokes the War Measures Act. | |||
||1970: Shoichi Sakata dies ... physicist who was internationally known for theoretical work on the structure of the atom. He proposed the Sakata model, which was an early precursor to the quark model. After the end of World War II, he joined other physicists in campaigning for the peaceful uses of nuclear power. Pic. | |||
File:Sakata Shoichi.jpg|link=Shoichi Sakata (nonfiction)|1970: Physicist [[Shoichi Sakata (nonfiction)|Shoichi Sakata]] dies. Sakata contributed theoretical work on the structure of the atom, proposing the Sakata model, an early precursor to the quark model. After World War II he campaigned for the peaceful uses of nuclear power. | |||
||1973: Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. | |||
||1983: Harish-Chandra dies ... mathematician and physicist who did fundamental work in representation theory, especially harmonic analysis on semisimple Lie groups. Pic. | |||
||1998: Jonathan Bruce Postel dies ... computer scientist who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, particularly with respect to standards. He is known principally for being the Editor of the Request for Comment (RFC) document series, for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), and for administering the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) until his death. Pic. | |||
||2002: Bibliotheca Alexandrina in the Egyptian city of Alexandria, a commemoration of the Library of Alexandria that was lost in antiquity, is officially inaugurated. | |||
||2002: An international team led by Reinhard Genzel of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics reported the observation of the motion of the star S2 near Sagittarius A* over a period of ten years. According to the team's analysis, the data ruled out the possibility that Sgr A* contains a cluster of dark stellar objects or a mass of degenerate fermions, strengthening the evidence for a massive black hole. | |||
||2010: Leigh Van Valen dies ... evolutionary biologist. Pic. | |||
||2012: The extrasolar planet Alpha Centauri Bb is discovered. | |||
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Latest revision as of 10:06, 15 February 2022
1655: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo dies. His Elim (Palms) deals with astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1797: Carl Friedrich Gauss records in his diary that he has discovered a new proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.
1843: Sir William Rowan Hamilton comes up with the idea of quaternions, a non-commutative extension of complex numbers.
1970: Physicist Shoichi Sakata dies. Sakata contributed theoretical work on the structure of the atom, proposing the Sakata model, an early precursor to the quark model. After World War II he campaigned for the peaceful uses of nuclear power.