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File: | ||1533: Theodor Zwinger born ... physician and humanist scholar. He made significant contributions to the emerging genres of reference and travel literature. Pic. | ||
||1754: Pierre Charles L'Enfant born ... architect and engineer, designed Washington, D.C. Pic: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Charles_L%27Enfant | |||
||1776: Friedrich Stromeyer bor ... chemist. While studying compounds of zinc, Stromeyer discovered the element cadmium in 1817; cadmium is a common impurity of zinc compounds, though often found only in minute quantities. He was also the first to recommend starch as a reagent for free iodine and he studied chemistry of arsine and bismuthate salts. Pic. | |||
||1799: Jacques-Etienne Montgolfier dies ... co-inventor of the hot air balloon. Pic. | |||
||1788: Leopold Gmelin born ... chemist and academic. He worked on the red prussiate and created Gmelin's test. Pic. | |||
||1823: Lazare Carnot dies ...mathematician, general, and politician, President of the National Convention. Pic. | |||
File:John Tyndall 1878.jpg|link=John Tyndall (nonfiction)|1820: Physicist [[John Tyndall (nonfiction)|John Tyndall]] born. He will study diamagnetism, and make discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air. | |||
File:Elisha Gray.jpg|link=|1835: Electrical engineer [[Elisha Gray (nonfiction)|Elisha Gray]] born. He will do pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the [[Telephone (nonfiction)|telephone]]. | |||
||1842: Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky born ... academic and paleontologist. Pic. | |||
||1856: Ferdinand Rudio born ... mathematician and historian of mathematics. Pic. | |||
||1861: Acharya Sir Prafulla Chandra Ray born ... chemist, educator and entrepreneur. Pic. | |||
||1868: Willis Rodney Whitney born ... chemist and founder of the research laboratory of the General Electric Company. Pic. | |||
||1870: Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom. | |||
||1885: Theoretical physicist and professor [[Earle Hesse Kennard (nonfiction)|Earle Hesse Kennard]] born. | |||
File:Oskar_Anderson.jpg|link=Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|1887: Mathematician and statistician [[Oskar Anderson (nonfiction)|Oskar Anderson]] born. He will make important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics. | |||
||1902: Egon Orowan ... physicist and metallurgist. Pic. | |||
||1902: Mina Spiegel Rees ... mathematician. She was a pioneer in the history of computing and helped establish funding streams and institutional infrastructure for research. Pic. | |||
||1917: Wah Ming Chang born ... designer, sculptor, and artist. With the encouragement of his adopted father, James Blanding Sloan, he began exhibiting his prints and watercolors at the age of seven to highly favorable reviews. Chang worked with Sloan on several theatre productions and in the 1940s, they briefly created their own studio to produce films. He is known later in life for his sculpture and the props he designed for Star Trek: The Original Series, including the tricorder and communicator. Pic. | |||
||1918: George William Whitehead, Jr. born ... professor of mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is known for his work on algebraic topology. He invented the J-homomorphism, and was among the first to systematically calculate the homotopy groups of spheres. Pic: http://www.nasonline.org/publications/biographical-memoirs/memoir-pdfs/whitehead-george.pdf | |||
||1921: Ruth Barcan Marcus born ... philosopher and logician ... a pioneer regarding the quantification of modal logic as well as the theory of direct reference ... developed the schemata known as the Barcan formula. Pic. | |||
File:Alexander Graham Bell.jpg|link=Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|1922: Engineer, inventor, and academic [[Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction)|Alexander Graham Bell]] dies. He patented the telephone in 1876. | |||
||1927: Paul Roesel Garabedian born ... mathematician and numerical analyst. He is known for his contributions to the fields of computational fluid dynamics and plasma physics, which ranged from elegant existence proofs for Potential theory and conformal mappings to the design and optimization of stellarators. Pic. | |||
|link=Carl David Anderson (nonfiction)|1932: The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by [[Carl David Anderson (nonfiction)|Carl D. Anderson]]. | |||
||1939: Harvey Spencer Lewis dies ... mystic and author. Pic. | |||
|link=|1939: Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] to develop a nuclear weapon. | |||
File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1939: [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] writes President F. D. Roosevelt that "some recent work by [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|E. Fermi]] and [[Leo Szilard (nonfiction)|L. Szilard]] ... leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable--though much less certain--that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may be constructed." Roosevelt quickly starts the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]]. | |||
||1964: Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident: North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyer USS Maddox. | |||
||File:Brainiac Explains Lecture Series (Dominic Yeso).jpg|link=Brainiac Explains|1964: [[Brainiac Explains]] lecture series accidentally releases new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | |||
||1970: Angus MacFarlane-Grieve dies ... academic, mathematician, rower, and soldier. No pics online. | |||
||1974: Fred C. Allison dies ... physicist. He developed a magneto-optic spectroscopy method that became known as the Allison magneto-optic method. He claimed to have discovered two new elements (later discredited) using this method. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Fred+Allison+physicist | |||
||1976: László Kalmár dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | |||
||2016: Ahmed Hassan Zewail dies ... scientist, known as the "father of femtochemistry". He was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on femtochemistry. Pic. | |||
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Latest revision as of 11:59, 7 February 2022
1820: Physicist John Tyndall born. He will study diamagnetism, and make discoveries in the realms of infrared radiation and the physical properties of air.
1835: Electrical engineer Elisha Gray born. He will do pioneering work in electrical information technologies, including the telephone.
1887: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson born. He will make important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.
1922: Engineer, inventor, and academic Alexander Graham Bell dies. He patented the telephone in 1876.
1939: Albert Einstein writes President F. D. Roosevelt that "some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard ... leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivable--though much less certain--that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may be constructed." Roosevelt quickly starts the Manhattan Project.