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||1310: Marguerite Porete, French mystic is burned at stake for heresy. No DOB. No pic online. | |||
||1495: A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky. No pic online. No DOB, no DOD. | |||
File:Geminiano Montanari.jpg|link=Geminiano Montanari (nonfiction)|1633: Astronomer and academic [[Geminiano Montanari (nonfiction)|Geminiano Montanari]] born. He will make the observation that Algol in the constellation of Perseus varies in brightness. | |||
||1795: Pierre-Joseph Desault dies ... anatomist and surgeon. Pic. | |||
||1796: Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot born ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | |||
||1815: James Gillray dies ... caricaturist and printmaker. Pic. | |||
||1841: Nicolas Appert dies ... chef, invented canning. Pic. | |||
||1849: Gustav Ritter von Escherich born ... mathematician. Pic: https://austria-forum.org/af/Biographien/Escherich%2C_Gustav_von | |||
File:Minnesota Quaternary geologic map.jpg|link=Minnesota (nonfiction)|1849: Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey declared the Territory of [[Minnesota (nonfiction)|Minnesota]] officially established. | |||
||1851: Isaac Peral born ... engineer, naval officer and designer of the Peral Submarine. He joined the Spanish navy in 1866, and developed the first electric-powered submarine which was launched in 1888, but it was not accepted by the naval authorities. He then left the navy to develop other inventions commercially. Pic. | |||
||1855: The American adventurer William Walker conquers Nicaragua. Pic. | |||
||1856: Ernst Lecher born ... physicist who, from 1909. He is remembered for developing an apparatus— "Lecher lines"—to measure the wavelength and frequency of electromagnetic waves. Pic. | |||
||1866: Charles Davenport born ... eugenicist and biologist. He was one of the leaders of the American eugenics movement. Pic. | |||
File:Karl Georg Christian von Staudt.jpg|link=Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|1867: Mathematician [[Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (nonfiction)|Karl Georg Christian von Staudt]] dies. He used synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic. | |||
||1869: Ernest Fox Nichols born ... educator and physicist. He served as the 10th President of Dartmouth College. Pic. | |||
||1878: Childe Wills born ... engineer ... chief contributor to the design of the Model T. Pic. | |||
File:Havelock.jpg|link=Havelock|1895: [[Havelock]] and [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] announce plan to collaborate on new data exchange protocol. | |||
||1890: Edward Hutchinson Synge born ... physicist who published a complete theoretical description of the near-field scanning optical microscope, an instrument used in nanotechnology, several decades before it was experimentally developed. He never completed university yet did significant original research in both microscopy and telescopy. He was the first to apply the principle of scanning in imaging, which later became important in a wide range of technologies including television, radar, and scanning electron microscopy. Pic search. | |||
File:Herman Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1890: The United States Census Bureau begins using [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]]'s tabulating machine to count census returns. | |||
||1896: Shintaro Uda born ... inventor, and assistant professor to Hidetsugu Yagi at Tohoku University, where together they invented the Yagi-Uda antenna in 1926. Pic: http://www.ieeecincinnati.org/2011/09/05/september-2011-history/ | |||
||1899: Edward Charles Titchmarsh born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search. | |||
||1907: Frank Whittle born ... soldier and engineer, developed the jet engine. Pic. | |||
||1912: Daniel Burnham dies ... architect, designed the World's Columbian Exposition. Pic. | |||
||1912: Jean Kuntzmann born ... mathematician, known for his works in applied mathematics and computer science, pushing and developing both fields at a very early time. Kuntzmann earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Paris under supervision of Georges Valiron (thesis: Contribution à l'étude des systèmes multiformes). Pic: https://aconit.inria.fr/omeka/items/show/677 | |||
||1917: William Standish Knowles born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. He shared half the prize with Ryōji Noyori for their work in asymmetric synthesis, specifically for his work in hydrogenation reactions. Pic. | |||
||1918: Eduardo Torroja Caballé born ... mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1919: Gisbert F. R. Hasenjaeger born ... mathematical logician. Independently and simultaneously with Leon Henkin in 1949, he developed a new proof of the completeness theorem of Kurt Gödel for predicate logic. He worked as an assistant to Heinrich Scholz at Section IVa of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Chiffrierabteilung, and was responsible for the security of the Enigma machine. Pic. | |||
||1930: John Lemmon born ... logician and philosopher. No pic online. | |||
||1932: Daihachiro Sato born ... mathematician who was awarded the Lester R. Ford Award in 1976 for his work in number theory, specifically on his work in the Diophantine representation of prime numbers. Pic. | |||
||1935: John C. Reynolds born ... computer scientist and academic. Pic. | |||
||1937: Colleen McCullough born ... neuroscientist and author. Pic. | |||
||1941: Hans Berger dies ... neurologist and academic ... best known as the inventor of electroencephalography (EEG) (a method for recording "brain waves") in 1924, coining the name,[1] and as the discoverer of the alpha wave rhythm, also known as the "Berger wave". Pic. | |||
||1941: Kurt Wilhelm Sebastian Hensel dies ... mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1943: BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. | |||
File:Colossus Mark 2.jpg|link=Colossus computer (nonfiction)|1944: First successful run of the improved [[Colossus computer (nonfiction)|Colossus Mark 2 computer]]], just in time for the Normandy landings on D-Day. Colossus Mark 2 used shift registers to quintuple the processing speed. | |||
||1948: Alex Gard dies ... cartoonist ... known for his celebrity caricatures at Sardi's restaurant in New York City. Pic. | |||
||1967: F. L. Lucas dies ... classical scholar, literary critic, poet, novelist, playwright, political polemicist, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and intelligence officer at Bletchley Park during World War II. Pic. | |||
||1974: The Flixborough disaster: explosion at a chemical plant close to the village of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, England on Saturday ... killed 28 people and seriously injured 36 out of a total of 72 people on site at the time. Ghe Flixborough disaster and the Seveso disaster in 1974 led to development of the Seveso Directive in 1982. | |||
||1988: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect. | |||
||1990: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production. | |||
||1996: Gaetano Fichera dies ... mathematician, working in mathematical analysis, linear elasticity, partial differential equations and several complex variables. Pic. | |||
||1997: Robert Serber dies ... physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project. Serber's lectures explaining the basic principles and goals of the project were printed and supplied to all incoming scientific staff, and became known as The Los Alamos Primer. The New York Times called him "the intellectual midwife at the birth of the atomic bomb." Pic. | |||
||1989: Uno Lamm dies ... electrical engineer and inventor ... sometimes called "The Father of High Voltage Direct Current" power transmission. Pic search. | |||
||1999: Christopher Cockerell dies ... engineer, invented the hovercraft. Pic. | |||
||2001: Hank Ketcham dies ... cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace. Pic. | |||
||2006: Shokichi Iyanaga dies ... mathematician. Pic. | |||
||2013: Hanfried Lenz dies ... mathematician and academic ... known for his work in geometry and combinatorics. Pic. | |||
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Latest revision as of 17:31, 6 February 2022
1633: Astronomer and academic Geminiano Montanari born. He will make the observation that Algol in the constellation of Perseus varies in brightness.
1849: Territorial Governor Alexander Ramsey declared the Territory of Minnesota officially established.
1867: Mathematician Karl Georg Christian von Staudt dies. He used synthetic geometry to provide a foundation for arithmetic.
1895: Havelock and Herman Hollerith announce plan to collaborate on new data exchange protocol.
1890: The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
![1944: First successful run of the improved Colossus Mark 2 computer], just in time for the Normandy landings on D-Day. Colossus Mark 2 used shift registers to quintuple the processing speed.](/w/images/thumb/4/48/Colossus_Mark_2.jpg/120px-Colossus_Mark_2.jpg)
1944: First successful run of the improved Colossus Mark 2 computer], just in time for the Normandy landings on D-Day. Colossus Mark 2 used shift registers to quintuple the processing speed.