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File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)| | ||1532: Wilhelm Xylander born ... classical scholar and humanist. Pic. | ||
||1780: Mary Somerville born ... mathematician, astronomer, and author. Pic. | |||
File:Charles Babbage by Antoine Claudet c1847-51.jpg|link=Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|1791: Polymath [[Charles Babbage (nonfiction)|Charles Babbage]] born. He will construct mechanical computers which anticipate the concept of programmable digital computers. | |||
||1801: Charles-Pierre-Mathieu Combes born ... engineer and academic ... He has been recognised as a model of what is now called a consultant engineer. Pic. | |||
||1827: Étienne Léopold Trouvelot born ... artist, astronomer and amateur entomologist. He is noted for the import and release of the gypsy moth into North America. Pic. Drawings: http://www.huntington.org/WebAssets/Templates/exhibitiondetail.aspx?id=25040 http://www.graphicine.com/etienne-trouvelot-astronomical-drawings/ | |||
||1837: Martin van Marum born ... physician, inventor, scientist and teacher, who studied medicine and philosophy in Groningen. Van Marum introduced modern chemistry in the Netherlands after the theories of Lavoisier, and several scientific applications for general use. He became famous for his demonstrations with instruments, most notable the Large electricity machine, to show statical electricity and chemical experiments while curator for the Teylers Museum. Pic. | |||
||1861: Emil Johann Wiechert born ... physicist and geophysicist who made many contributions to both fields, including presenting the first verifiable model of a layered structure of the Earth and being among the first to discover the electron. Pic. | |||
||1862: The largest mass-hanging in U.S. history took place in Mankato, Minnesota, 38 Native Americans died. | |||
||1869: Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille dies ... physicist and physiologist. He experimentally derived, and in 1840 and 1846 formulated and published, Poiseuille's law (now commonly known as the Hagen–Poiseuille equation, crediting Gotthilf Hagen as well), which applies to laminar flow, that is, non-turbulent flow of liquids through pipes of uniform section, such as blood flow in capillaries and veins. Pic. | |||
||1889: Jenő Hunyady dies ... mathematician noted for his work on conic sections and linear algebra, specifically on determinants. Pic. | |||
||1896: Physicist Georgi Nadjakov born. He investigated the photoconducting properties of sulphur. He prepared the permanent photoelectret state of matter for the first time. Pic. | |||
File:Emil du Bois-Reymond.jpg|link=Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|1896: Physician and physiologist [[Emil du Bois-Reymond (nonfiction)|Emil du Bois-Reymond]] dies. He discovered nerve action potential, and developed experimental electrophysiology. | |||
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. | |||
||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. | |||
||1973: Harold Hotelling dies ... mathematical statistician and an influential economic theorist, known for Hotelling's law, Hotelling's lemma, and Hotelling's rule in economics, as well as Hotelling's T-squared distribution in statistics. 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. | |||
||1992: John George Kemeny dies ... mathematician, computer scientist, and educator He will co-develop the BASIC programming language, and pioneer the use of computers in college education. Pic. | |||
||1997: Cahit Arf dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | |||
||1997: Kenneth Sanborn Pitzer dies ... physical and theoretical chemist, educator, and university president. He was described as "one of the most influential physical chemists of his era" whose work "spanned almost all of the important fields of physical chemistry: thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, molecular structure, quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, chemical bonding, relativistic chemical effects, properties of concentrated aqueous salt solutions, kinetics, and conformational analysis." 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. 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. | |||
||2010: Albert Ghiorso dies ... nuclear scientist and co-discoverer of a record 12 chemical elements on the periodic table. Pic. | |||
||2012: Paul Trevier Bateman dies ... number theorist, known for formulating the Bateman–Horn conjecture on the density of prime number values generated by systems of polynomials and the New Mersenne conjecture relating the occurrences of Mersenne primes and Wagstaff primes. Pic: http://celebratio.org/Bateman_PT/cover/323/ | |||
|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. | |||
||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. | |||
File:Karl Jones 20191226 071303.jpg|link=Karl Jones (nonfiction)|2019: [[Karl Jones (nonfiction)|Karl Jones]] takes a photograph of himself wearing red and green Christmas lights. | |||
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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.