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File: | ||1519: Johannes Crato von Krafftheim born ... humanist and physician. Pic. | ||
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||1718: Blackbeard dies ... English pirate. Pic. | |||
||1721: Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres born ... cartographer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia. Pic. | |||
||1803: Giusto Bellavitis born ... mathematician, senator, and municipal councilor. His principle achievement is the invention of the method of equipollences, a new method of analytic geometry that is both philosophical and fruitful. Pic. | |||
||1813: Johann Christian Reil dies ... physician, physiologist, and anatomist. Pic. | |||
||1830: Karl Christian Bruhns born ... German astronomer. Pic. | |||
||1879: John Allan dies born ... scientist with interests in magnetism, particularly of the earth, and meteorology. Broun studied in Edinburgh University and worked at the observatory in Makerstoun from 1842 to 1849 before moving to India to work in the Kingdom of Travancore. He continued his studies on geo-magnetism in India and was involved in setting up observatories there apart from managing the Napier Museum in Trivandrum. One of the fundamental discoveries he made was that the Earth loses or gains magnetic intensity not locally, but as a whole. He also found that solar activity causes magnetic disturbances. Pic: https://maddy06.blogspot.com/2016/04/reaching-out-for-stars.html | |||
||1880: James Craig Watson dies ... astronomer. He discovered 22 asteroids, beginning with 79 Eurynome in 1863. He was a strong believer in the existence of the planet Vulcan, a hypothetical planet closer to the Sun than Mercury, which is now known not to exist Pic. | |||
||1895: Vincent Justus Burnelli born ... aeronautics engineer, instrumental in furthering the lifting body and flying wing concept. Pic. | |||
||1896: George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. dies ... engineer, invented the Ferris wheel. Pic. | |||
||1897: Astronomer and educator Paul Oswald Ahnert born. Pic search. | |||
||1904: Louis Néel born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1907: Asaph Hall III born ... an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. He determined the orbits of satellites of other planets and of double stars, the rotation of Saturn, and the mass of Mars. Pic (cool). | |||
||1909: Mikhail Mil born ... engineer, founded the Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant. Pic (stamp). | |||
File:Jack London 1903.jpg|link=Jack London (nonfiction)|1916: Author [[Jack London (nonfiction)|Jack London]] dies. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone. | |||
||1917: Andrew Huxley born ... physiologist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1922: Eugene Stoner born ... engineer and weapons designer, designed the AR-15 rifle. Pic. | |||
||1935: The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila. | |||
||1939: Tom West born ... engineer and author ... ''Soul of a New Machine''. Pic. | |||
File:Arthur Stanley Eddington.jpg|link=Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|1944: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician [[Arthur Eddington (nonfiction)|Arthur Eddington]] dies. He became famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity. | |||
||1955: RDS-37 was the Soviet Union's first two-stage hydrogen bomb, first tested on November 22, 1955. The weapon had a nominal yield of approximately 3 megatons. It was scaled down to 1.6 megatons for the live test. | |||
File:Aldous Huxley.png|link=Aldous Huxley (nonfiction)|1963: Writer and philosopher [[Aldous Huxley (nonfiction)|Aldous Huxley]] dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time. | |||
File:John F. Kennedy moon mission speech.jpg|link=John F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|1963: United States President [[John F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|John F. Kennedy]] is assassinated, and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded. | |||
File:Umbrella Man.jpg|link=Umbrella Man (nonfiction)|1965: Analysis of [[Umbrella Man (nonfiction)|Umbrella Man]] photographs reveals traces of the illegal transdimensional drug [[Clandestiphrine]]. | |||
||1972: Horia Hulubei dies ... nuclear physicist, known for his contributions to the development of X-ray spectroscopy. Pic. | |||
||1974: Gerald Maurice Clemence dies ... astronomer. Inspired by the life and work of Simon Newcomb, his career paralleled the huge advances in astronomy brought about by the advent of the electronic computer. Clemence did much to revive the prestige of the U.S. Nautical Almanac Office. Pic: https://www.nap.edu/read/10169/chapter/6 | |||
||1977: British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service. | |||
||1981: Hans Adolf Krebs dies ... physician and biochemist.He was the pioneer scientist in study of cellular respiration, a biochemical pathway in cells for production of energy. He is best known for his discoveries of two important chemical reactions in the body, namely the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle. The latter, the key sequence of metabolic reactions that produces energy in cells, often eponymously known as the "Krebs cycle", earned him a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953. Pic. | |||
||1987: Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom. | |||
||1988: John Ralph Ragazzini dies ... electrical engineer and a professor of Electrical Engineering. Ragazzini pioneered the development of the z-transform method in discrete-time signal processing and analysis. Pic. | |||
||1988: In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed. | |||
||1996: Garrett Birkhoff dies ... mathematician. He is best known for his work in lattice theory. The mathematician George Birkhoff (1884–1944) was his father. Pic. | |||
File:Harry Lehmann.jpg|link=Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|1998: Physicist [[Harry Lehmann (nonfiction)|Harry Lehmann]] dies. He contributed to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation. | |||
||1998: Iran Chain Murders: Dariush Forouhar assassinated (Persian: داریوش فروهر; 1928 – 22 November 1998) was an Iranian pan-Iranist politician and leader of Nation Party of Iran. Pic. | |||
||2001: Luís Antoni Santaló Sors dies - mathematician. Pic. | |||
||2010: Frank John Fenner dies ... scientist with a distinguished career in the field of virology. His two greatest achievements are cited as overseeing the eradication of smallpox, and the control of Australia's rabbit plague through the introduction of Myxoma virus. Pic. | |||
||2011: Lynn Margulis dies ... biologist and academic. Pic. | |||
File:Self portrait with Atrocity Exhibition 20221122 205256.jpg|link=Self portrait with atrocity exhibition|2022: '''[[Self portrait with atrocity exhibition]]'''. | |||
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Latest revision as of 09:08, 22 May 2024
1916: Author Jack London dies. He was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
1944: Astronomer, physicist, and mathematician Arthur Eddington dies. He became famous for his work concerning the theory of relativity.
1963: Writer and philosopher Aldous Huxley dies. He was acknowledged as one of the pre-eminent intellectuals of his time.
1963: United States President John F. Kennedy is assassinated, and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded.
1965: Analysis of Umbrella Man photographs reveals traces of the illegal transdimensional drug Clandestiphrine.
1998: Physicist Harry Lehmann dies. He contributed to the LSZ reduction formula and the Källén–Lehmann spectral representation.
