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File: | ||1237: The city of Ryazan is sacked by the Mongol army of Batu Khan. | ||
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||1489: Thomas Müntzer, German mystic and theologian born ... a radical German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Luther and the Roman Catholic Church led to his open defiance of late-feudal authority in central Germany. Müntzer was foremost amongst those reformers who took issue with Luther’s compromises with feudal authority. He became a leader of the German peasant and plebeian uprising —commonly known as the German Peasants' War— of 1525, was captured after the battle of Frankenhausen, and was tortured and executed. Pic. | |||
||1542: Thomas Allen born ... mathematician and astrologer. Highly reputed in his lifetime, he published little, but was an active private teacher of mathematics. Pic. | |||
||1673: Joan Blaeu dies ... cartographer born in Alkmaar, the son of cartographer Willem Blaeu. Pic. | |||
||1732: Johann Christian Wiegleb born ... druggist and early innovator of chemistry as a science. Pic. | |||
||1754: Louis-Bertrand Castel, vociferous opponent of Newtonian science, gave a demonstration of his ocular harpsicord, which corresponded colors with the musical tones. *VFR The ocular harpsichord had sixty small coloured glass panes, each with a curtain that opened when a key was struck. A second, improved model of the harpsichord was demonstrated for a small audience in December of 1754. Pressing a key caused a small shaft to open, in turn allowing light to shine through a piece of stained glass. Castel thought of color-music as akin to the lost language of paradise, where all men spoke alike, and he claimed that thanks to his instrument’s capacity to paint sounds, even a deaf listener could enjoy music. Pic. | |||
||1765: Prokop Diviš dies ... priest, scientist and inventor. In an attempt to prevent thunderstorms from occurring, he inadvertently constructed one of the first grounded lightning rods. Pic. | |||
||1805: Thomas Graham born ... chemist and academic. Pic. | |||
File:Joseph Fourier.jpg|link=Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|1807: Mathematician [[Joseph Fourier (nonfiction)|Joseph Fourier]] announced to the French Academy of Science that an arbitrary function could be expanded as an infinite series of sines and cosines (now known as the Fourier series). | |||
||1824: James Parkinson dies ... physician and paleontologist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=James+Parkinson | |||
||1844: The Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers commences business at its cooperative in Rochdale, England, starting the Cooperative movement. Pic: store. | |||
||1868: George W. Fuller born ... chemist and engineer ... responsible for important innovations in water and wastewater treatment. He designed and built the first modern water filtration plant, and he designed and built the first chlorination system that disinfected a U.S. drinking water supply. In addition, he performed groundbreaking engineering work on sewage treatment facilities. Pic. | |||
||1872: Challenger expedition: HMS ''Challenger'', commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth, England. | |||
||1877: Jaan Sarv born ... mathematician and scholar. Pic. | |||
File:Jan Łukasiewicz.jpg|link=Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|1878: Mathematician and philosopher [[Jan Łukasiewicz (nonfiction)|Jan Łukasiewicz]] born. He will think innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle. | |||
||1889: Sewall Wright born ... geneticist and biologist. Pic. | |||
||1889: Sewall Green Wright born ... geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. Pic | |||
||1890: Hermann Joseph Muller born ... geneticist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | |||
||1905: Käte Fenchel born ... mathematician. | |||
||1907: The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile. | |||
||1912: Paul Albert Gordan dies ... mathematician. He was known as "the king of invariant theory". Pic. | |||
||1912: Captain Forrest R. "Tex" Biard born ... linguist in the U.S. Navy codebreaking organization during the Second World War. A pre-war student of Japanese, Biard's translation work is considered to have been an important part of American military success. | |||
File:Crossword.png|link=Crossword (nonfiction)|1913: Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first [[Crossword (nonfiction)|crossword puzzle]], is published in the ''New York World''. | |||
||1914: Frank John Fenner born ... 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. | |||
||1919: American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia. | |||
||1919: Bernard Taub Feld born ... professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He helped develop the atomic bomb, and later led an international movement among scientists to banish nuclear weapons. Pic: https://academictree.org/physics/peopleinfo.php?pid=126451 | |||
||1920: Mohammed Abdullah Hassan dies ... Somalian general, founded the Dervish state. | |||
||1920: Adele Goldstine born ... computer programmer. | |||
||1922: Cécile DeWitt-Morette born ... mathematician and physicist. | |||
||1929: Newton Ennis Morton born ... population geneticist and one of the founders of the field of genetic epidemiology. He work with the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in Japan during 1952–1953 will inspire him to pursue a career in human genetics. Pic. | |||
||1933: Knud Rasmussen dies ... anthropologist and explorer. Pic. | |||
||1937: Maurice Paul Nivat born ... computer scientist. His research spanned the areas of formal languages, programming language semantics, and discrete geometry. Pic. | |||
||1937: Lawrence Roberts born ... 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. | |||
||1937: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre. | |||
||1951: Timothy May born ... technical and political writer, and was an electronic engineer and senior scientist at Intel in the company's early history. Pic: https://en.m.bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/File:Tim_may.jpg#mw-jump-to-license | |||
||1959: Kitaōji Rosanjin dies ... pseudonym for a noted artist and epicure during the early to mid-Shōwa period of Japan. His real name was Kitaōji Fusajirō (北大路 房次郎), but he is best known by his artistic name, Rosanjin. A man of many talents, Rosanjin was also a calligrapher, ceramicist, engraver, painter, lacquer artist and restaurateur. Pic. | |||
||1960: Eric Temple Bell dies ... mathematician and science fiction writer who lived in the United States for most of his life. He published non-fiction using his given name and fiction as John Taine. Pic. | |||
||1967: Louis Washkansky dies ... the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, having lived for 18 days after the transplant. | |||
||1968: Apollo program: Apollo 8 is launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans. | |||
||1980: Vladimir Potapov dies ... He worked on the theory of J-contractive matrix functions, the analysis of matrix functions, and interpolation problems. mathematician. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=vladimir+potapov+mathematician | |||
||1988: A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. | |||
||1988: The first flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world. | |||
||1990: Kelly Johnson dies ... engineer, co-founded Skunk Works. Pic. | |||
||2009: Edwin G. Krebs dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... together with his collaborator Edmond H. Fischer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes. Pic. | |||
||2014: Anatole Beck dies ... mathematician. Pic. | |||
||2016: Sidney David Drell dies ... theoretical physicist and arms control expert. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Sidney+David+Drell | |||
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Latest revision as of 17:28, 7 February 2022
1807: Mathematician Joseph Fourier announced to the French Academy of Science that an arbitrary function could be expanded as an infinite series of sines and cosines (now known as the Fourier series).
1878: Mathematician and philosopher Jan Łukasiewicz born. He will think innovatively about traditional propositional logic, the principle of non-contradiction and the law of excluded middle.
1913: Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.