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File: | ||1498: Andreas Osiander born ... Lutheran theologian and Protestant reformer. In 1543, Osiander oversaw the publication of the book De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the revolutions of the celestial spheres) by Copernicus. He added a preface suggesting that the model described in the book was not necessarily true, or even probable, but was useful for computational purposes. This was certainly not the opinion of Copernicus, who was probably unaware of the addition. Pic. | ||
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File:John | File:John Winthrop.jpg|link=John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|1714: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer [[John Winthrop (scientist) (nonfiction)|John Winthrop]] born. He will be one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century. | ||
||1741: Vitus Bering born ... hydrographer and explorer. Pic. | |||
||1752: François Isaac de Rivaz born ... inventor and a politician. He invented a hydrogen-powered internal combustion engine with electric ignition and described it in a French patent published in 1807. In 1808 he fitted it into a primitive working vehicle – "the world's first internal combustion powered automobile". Pic. | |||
||1765: Joseph Priestley, visiting in London, is introduced to Benjamin Franklin, and other members of the "Honest Whigs" by John Canton in a popular coffee house in the shadow of St Pauls cathedral. Priestly had presented himself to Canton with a letter of introduction from Priestley's friend and rector at Warrington Academy that read, "You will find a benevolent, sensible man, with a considerable sense of learning. If Dr. Franklin be in Town,I believe Dr. Priestley would be glad to be made known of him." Before the night was over, Priestly had acquired their support for a book about their mutual efforts in the discovery of electricity. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2018/12/on-this-day-in-math-december-19.html | |||
||1813: Thomas Andrews born ... chemist and physicist ... did important work on phase transitions between gases and liquids. Pic. | |||
||1852: Albert Abraham Michelson born ... physicist, chemist, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1854: Louis Marcel Brillouin born ... physicist and mathematician. He will publish experimental and theoretic papers on a wide range of topics including gas kinetics, viscosity, thermodynamics, electricity, melting conditions, aircraft stability, and tidal dynamics. He also built a new model of the Eötvös balance. Pic. | |||
||1875: Mileva Maric born ... physicist. Einstein collaboration debate, love child unknown fate. Pic. | |||
||1875: Grace Marie Bareis born ... mathematician. Bareis taught mathematics to World War II veterans in a class called the "Army Specialized Training Program" and even did so two years after her retirement because of a shortage of math instructors. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Grace+Marie+Bareis | |||
||1887: Balfour Stewart dies ... physicist. His studies in the field of radiant heat led to him receiving the Rumford Medal of the Royal Society in 1868. Pic. | |||
||1894: Karl Pearson introduced the Pearson family of densities. [Springer’s 1985 Statistics Calendar] *VFR https://pballew.blogspot.com/2018/12/on-this-day-in-math-december-19.html | |||
||1900: Margaret Brundage born ... illustrator, known for illustrating pulp magazine ''Weird Tales''. | |||
File:Rudolf_Hell_führt_seinen_Wetterkartenschreiber_vor_(Kiel_44.592).jpg|link=Rudolf Hell (nonfiction)|1901: Inventor and engineer [[Rudolf Hell (nonfiction)|Rudolf Hell]] born. Hell will invent the [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellschreiber]], a pioneering teleprinter system. Shown here: Hell's ''Wetterkartenschreiber'' ("weather chart recorder"). | |||
||1903: George Davis Snell born ... geneticist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate. | |||
||1908: Yvette Cauchois born ... physicist known for her contributions to x-ray spectroscopy and x-ray optics, and for pioneering European synchrotron research. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=yvette+cauchois | |||
||1912: William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after three-and-a-half-years in Sing Sing prison. | |||
||1913: Ernst Stuhlinger born ... atomic, electrical, and rocket scientist. After being brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip, he developed guidance systems with Wernher von Braun's team for the US Army, and later was a scientist with NASA. He was also instrumental in the development of the ion engine for long-endurance space flight, and a wide variety of scientific experiments. Pic. | |||
||1915: Arthur Williams Wright dies ... physicist. His research, which ranged from electricity to astronomy, produced the first X-ray image and experimented with Röntgen rays. Pic. | |||
||1926: Robert "Bob" Osserman born ... mathematician who worked in geometry. He is specially remembered for his work on the theory of minimal surfaces. Pic. | |||
||1932: Crispin St. John Alvah Nash-Williams born ... mathematician. His research interest was in the field of discrete mathematics, especially graph theory. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Nash-Williams.html | |||
||1939: Dmitry Aleksandrovich Grave dies ... mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1946: Paul Langevin dies ... physicist and academic. Pic. | |||
||1952: Otto Szász dies ... mathematician who worked on real analysis, in particular on Fourier series. He proved the Müntz–Szász theorem and introduced the Szász–Mirakyan operator. Pic. | |||
File:Robert Andrews Millikan.jpg|link=Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|1953: Physicist [[Robert Andrews Millikan (nonfiction)|Robert Andrews Millikan]] dies. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect. | |||
File:John Bodkin Adams 1940s.jpg|link=John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|1956: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer [[John Bodkin Adams (nonfiction)|John Bodkin Adams]] is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges. | |||
||1958, the first known radio broadcast from outer space was transmitted. President Eisenhower's voice issued a Christmas greeting from a pre-recorded tape on a recorder aboard an orbiting space satellite. His full message was, "This is the President of the United States speaking. Through the marvels of scientific advance, my voice is coming to you from a satellite circling in outer space. My message is a simple one. Through this unique means I convey to you and all mankind America's wish for peace on earth and good will to men everywhere." The broadcast came from the first experimental satellite, Project SCORE, which had been launched two days earlier. The battery-operated 132 MHz all vacuum tubes transmitter had an 8-W output.*TIS https://pballew.blogspot.com/2018/12/on-this-day-in-math-december-19.html | |||
||1972: Apollo program: The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, crewed by Eugene Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt, returns to Earth. | |||
||1982: Frederick Emmons Terman dies ... professor and academic administrator. He is widely credited (together with William Shockley) as being the father of Silicon Valley. Pic. | |||
||1986: Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the Soviet Union, releases Andrei Sakharov and his wife from exile in Gorky. | |||
||1993: Hans Rohrbach dies ... mathematician. He worked both as an algebraist and a number theorist and later worked as cryptanalyst at Pers Z S, the German Foreign Office cipher bureau, during World War II. Pic. | |||
||1998: Mel Fisher dies ... treasure hunter. | |||
||1999: Dennis William Siahou Sciama (d. 18/19 December 1999) was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology. Pic. | |||
||2004: Herbert C. Brown dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate for his work with organobromanes. Pic. | |||
||2005: Vincent Gigante dies ... mobster. | |||
||2009: Megasavant Kim Peek dies. He had an exceptional memory, but he also experienced social difficulties, possibly resulting from a developmental disability related to congenital brain abnormalities. He was the inspiration for the autistic savant character Raymond Babbitt in the movie Rain Man. Although Peek was previously diagnosed with autism, it is now thought that he instead had FG syndrome. | |||
||2013: Spacecraft ''Gaia'' is launched by European Space Agency. | |||
File:The Woke and the Furious.jpg|link=The Woke and the Furious|2021: Premier of '''''[[The Woke and the Furious]]''''', a 2021 political action film about an undercover liberal who is tasked with discovering the identities of a group of insurrectionists led by Donald Trump. | |||
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1714: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop born. He will be one of the foremost men of science in America during the 18th century.
1901: Inventor and engineer Rudolf Hell born. Hell will invent the Hellschreiber, a pioneering teleprinter system. Shown here: Hell's Wetterkartenschreiber ("weather chart recorder").
1953: Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan dies. He won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for the measurement of the elementary electronic charge and for his work on the photoelectric effect.
1956: Physician, confidence trickster, and suspected serial killer John Bodkin Adams is arrested in connection with the suspicious deaths of more than 160 patients. Eventually he is convicted only of minor charges.
2021: Premier of The Woke and the Furious, a 2021 political action film about an undercover liberal who is tasked with discovering the identities of a group of insurrectionists led by Donald Trump.