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File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1571: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] born. He will discover laws of planetary motion.
File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1571: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] born. He will discover laws of planetary motion.
File:Charles Grafton Page.jpg|link=Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|1834: Inventor and crime-fighter [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]] new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1884: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] publishes two-channel [[Gnomon algorithm|Gnomon algorithm communications protocol]] which virtualizes [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]].
File:Mountain vendetta.jpg|link=Havelock|1891: [[Havelock]] survives shootout by hiding.
File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|1942: ENIAC ("[[Empty Noise Into Alien Communication]]") uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to visualize the [[Wow! signal (nonfiction)|Wow! signal]].
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1773 – George Cayley, English engineer and politician (d. 1857)
||1771: Henri Pitot dies ... engineer, invented the Pitot tube. Pic search.
 
File:George Cayley.jpg|link=George Cayley (nonfiction)|1773: Engineer [[George Cayley (nonfiction)|George Cayley]] born.  He will do pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.
 
||1802: Gerardus Johannes Mulder born ... organic and analytical chemist. Pic.
 
||1822: Louis Pasteur born ... chemist and microbiologist renowned for his discoveries of the principles of vaccination, microbial fermentation and pasteurization. Pic.
 
||1831: Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS Beagle, during which he will begin to formulate his theory of evolution.
 
||1845: Ether anesthetic is used for childbirth for the first time by Dr. Crawford Long in Jefferson, Georgia. Pic.
 
|File:Herman_Hollerith.jpg|link=Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|1884: Inventor [[Herman Hollerith (nonfiction)|Herman Hollerith]] publishes two-channel [[Gnomon algorithm|Gnomon algorithm communications protocol]] which virtualizes [[Charles Grafton Page (nonfiction)|Charles Grafton Page]].
 
||1889: Stephen Joseph Perry dies ... Jesuit and astronomer, known as a participant in scientific expeditions. Pic.
 
||1900: William Armstrong dies ... engineer and businessman, founded Armstrong Whitworth. Pic.
 
||1904: Mojżesz Presburger born ... mathematician, logician, and philosopher. He was a student of Alfred Tarski and is known for, among other things, having invented Presburger arithmetic as a student in 1929. Pic.
 
||1914: Charles Martin Hall dies ... chemist and engineer. Pic.
 
||1915: Jacob Lionel Bakst Cooper born ... mathematician who worked in operator theory, transform theory, thermodynamics, functional analysis and differential equations. Pic.
 
||1916: Werner Baumbach born ... German bomber pilot during World War II. He commanded the secret bomber wing Kampfgeschwader 200 (KG 200) of the Luftwaffe. Pic.
 
||1922: Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.
 
File:Gustave Eiffel 1888.jpg|link=Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|1923: Engineer [[Gustave Eiffel (nonfiction)|Gustave Eiffel]] dies. He designed the world-famous Eiffel Tower.
 
File:Jean Bartik.jpg|link=Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|1924: [[Jean Bartik (nonfiction)|Jean Bartik]] born. She will be one of the original programmers for the [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]] computer.
 
||1930: Gyula Farkas dies ... mathematician and physicist. He will be known for Farkas' lemma, a solvability theorem for a finite system of linear inequalities. This will be the key result underpinning the linear programming duality; it will play a central role in the development of mathematical optimization. Pic.
 
||1938: Calvin Bridges dies ... geneticist and academic. Along with Alfred Sturtevant and H.J. Muller, Bridges was part of the famous fly room of Thomas Hunt Morgan at Columbia University. Pic search.
 
||1952: Mary Engle Pennington dies ... bacteriological chemist and refrigeration engineer. Pic.
 
||1955: Authorized by President Dwight D. Eisenhower on December 27, 1955, Project 119L was the first espionage use of the balloons that had been tested in previous projects, such as "Moby Dick High". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Genetrix Pic.
 
||1968: Apollo program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.
 
||1974: Vladimir Fock dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic.
 
||1984: Allan Hills 84001 (commonly abbreviated ALH84001) is a meteorite that was found in Allan Hills, Antarctica on December 27, 1984, by a team of U.S. meteorite hunters from the ANSMET project. On August 6, 1996, ALH84001 became newsworthy when it was claimed that the meteorite may contain evidence of traces of life from Mars, as published in an article in Science by David S. McKay of NASA.
 
||1993: Feliks Kibbermann born ... chess player and philologist.
 
||1995: Boris Vladimirovich Gnedenko dies ... mathematician and historian ... known for his work with Kolmogorov, and his contributions to the study of probability theory, particularly extreme value theory, with such results as the Fisher–Tippett–Gnedenko theorem. Pic search.
 
||1995: Genrikh Kasparyan born ... chess player and composer.
 
||1999: Geraldine Pittman Woods dies ... science administrator and embryologist. Pic.
 
||2004: Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.
 
||2012: Tingye Li dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.


1924 – Jean Bartik, American computer scientist and engineer (d. 2011)
||2012: Archie Roy dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic.


1771 – Henri Pitot, French engineer, invented the Pitot tube (b. 1695)
||2013: Richard Ambler dies ... biologist and academic ...  molecular biologist who conducted groundbreaking research into the evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Ambler was the first scientist to publish an amino acid sequence of a bacterial protein.  Pic: http://www.biochemist.org/bio/03603/0058/036030058.pdf


1923 – Gustave Eiffel, French architect and engineer, co-designed the Eiffel Tower (b. 1832)
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Latest revision as of 17:34, 7 February 2022

  • 1571: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Kepler born. He will discover laws of planetary motion.

    1571: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Kepler born. He will discover laws of planetary motion.

  • 1773: Engineer George Cayley born. He will do pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.

    1773: Engineer George Cayley born. He will do pioneering work in aeronautics, investigating and codifying the dynamics of flight.

  • 1923: Engineer Gustave Eiffel dies. He designed the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

    1923: Engineer Gustave Eiffel dies. He designed the world-famous Eiffel Tower.

  • 1924: Jean Bartik born. She will be one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.

    1924: Jean Bartik born. She will be one of the original programmers for the ENIAC computer.

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