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File:Galileo | || *** PAREIDOLIA: Galileo - TO_DO *** | ||
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File:Galileo by Leoni.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] born. He will be called the "father of modern physics." | |||
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to defeat the [[Forbidden Ratio]] in single combat. | |||
||1676: Newton wrote Hooke: "What DesCartes did was a good step....If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants." *VFR ... The letter is at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-5.html | |||
File:Eustachio_Manfredi.jpg|link=Eustachio Manfredi (nonfiction)|1739: Mathematician, astronomer and poet [[Eustachio Manfredi (nonfiction)|Eustachio Manfredi]] dies. Manfredi's observations of asteroids provided early evidence, albeit unsought, of the revolution of the Earth around the Sun. | |||
||1747: François Dominique Séraphin born ... entertainer who developed and popularized shadow plays in France. The art form would go on to be copied across Europe. Pic search. | |||
||1825: Naval engineer Gustave Zédé born. He will be a pioneering designer of submarines. Pic. | |||
||1826: George Johnstone Stoney born ... physicist. He is most famous for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity". Pic. | |||
||1834: William Henry Preece born ... electrical engineer and inventor. He will be a major figure in the development and introduction of wireless telegraphy and the telephone in Great Britain. Pic. | |||
||1839: Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen born ... mathematician. He is known for work on the enumerative geometry of conic sections, algebraic surfaces, and history of mathematics. Pic. | |||
||1839: Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer born ... mathematician. He did research on differential equations, the calculus of variations and mechanics. Pic. | |||
||1847: Germinal Pierre Dandelin dies ... mathematician and engineer. Pic. | |||
||1849: Rickman Godlee born ... surgeon and academic ... brain surgery. | |||
||1849: Pierre François Verhulst dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | |||
||1850: Sophie Bryant born ... mathematician, academic and activist. | |||
||1851: Spiru Haret born ... mathematician, astronomer, and politician, 55th Romanian Minister of Internal Affairs. | |||
||1856: Emil Kraepelin born ... psychiatrist ... a founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics. Pic. | |||
||1861: Charles Édouard Guillaume born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1861: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy. | File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1861: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy. | ||
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File: | ||1871: Martin Hans Christian Knudsen born ... physicist who taught and conducted research at the Technical University of Denmark. He is primarily known for his study of molecular gas flow and the development of the Knudsen cell, which is a primary component of molecular beam epitaxy systems. Pic. | ||
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||1873: Hans von Euler-Chelpin born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
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||1882: Paul Koebe born. His work dealt exclusively with the complex numbers, his most important results being on the uniformization of Riemann surfaces in a series of four papers in 1907–1909. Pic. | |||
||1889: Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen dies ... geologist and academic. He studied the coal-formation of Westphalia and northern Europe generally, and contributed to the theory and practice of mining and metallurgical works in Rhenish Prussia. Pic. | |||
||1898: The battleship USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain. | |||
||1900: Charles Allen Thomas born ... American chemist and businessman, and an important figure in the Manhattan Project. Pic. | |||
||1905: Frederick Vinton Hunt born ... was an inventor, a scientist and a professor at Harvard University who worked in the field of acoustic engineering. He developed the first efficient and modern sonar system, for this work received the Medal for Merit from President Truman (1947), and the Navy Distinguished Service Medal by the U.S. Navy in 1970. Pic. | |||
||1913: Erich Eliskases born ... chess player. | |||
||1919: Alexander Andreevich Samarskii born ... mathematician and academician specializing in mathematical physics, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, and finite difference methods. Pic. | |||
||1920: Bjarni Jónsson born ... mathematician and logician working in universal algebra, lattice theory, model theory and set theory. Pic. | |||
||1922: Herman Kahn born ... a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation. He became known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability, making him one of three historical inspirations for the title character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire Dr. Strangelove. Pic. | |||
||1925: The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska. | |||
||1931: Lillian Leitzel born ... acrobat and strongwoman. Pic. | |||
||1933: Pat Sullivan dies ... animator and producer, co-created Felix the Cat. | |||
||1933: In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933. | |||
||1963: Shoucheng Zhang born ... physicist and academic ... condensed matter theorist known for his work on topological insulators, the quantum Hall effect, the quantum spin Hall effect, spintronics, and high-temperature superconductivity. Pic. | |||
||1940: Otto Toeplitz born ... mathematician working in functional analysis. Pic. | |||
||1944: Aleksandr Serebrov born ... engineer and cosmonaut. Pic: postage stamp. | |||
File:ENIAC.jpg|link=ENIAC (nonfiction)|1946: [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]], the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. | |||
||1949: Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls. | |||
||1954: Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska. | |||
File:Owen Richardson.jpg|link=Owen Willans Richardson (nonfiction)|1959: Physicist and academic [[Owen Willans Richardson (nonfiction)|Owen Willans Richardson]] dies. He won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law. | |||
||19664: Sodium Reactor Experiment ceases official operation. Pic. | |||
||1972: Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time. | |||
||1974: Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander dies ... cryptanalyst, chess player, and chess writer. He worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and was later the head of the cryptanalysis division at GCHQ for 25 years. Pic. | |||
File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1988: Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965. | |||
||1996: At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people. | |||
||1999: Henry Way Kendall dies ... physicist and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate. | |||
||2001: The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature. | |||
||2009: Kazuhiko Nishijima dies ... physicist who made significant contributions to particle physics. Pic. | |||
||2012: Cyril Domb dies ... physicist and academic. | |||
File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2011: The [[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]] spacecraft flies by comet Tempel 1. | |||
||2013: A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14. | |||
||2013: The Chelyabinsk meteorite (Russian: Челябинск or Челябинский метеорит) is the fragmented remains of the large Chelyabinsk meteor of 15 February 2013 which reached the ground after the meteor's passage through the atmosphere. The descent of the meteor, visible as a brilliant superbolide in the morning sky, caused a series of shock waves that shattered windows, damaged approximately 7,200 buildings and left 1,500 people injured. The resulting fragments were scattered over a wide area. Pic. | |||
||2013: Asteroid 367943 Duende passed at a record distance of 27,700 km (17,200 mi) or 4.3 Earth radii from Earth's surface.[4] Due to its close passage, the orbit of the former Apollo asteroid was significantly perturbed. Duende's passage also coincided with the completely unrelated Chelyabinsk meteor, which entered Earth's atmosphere above Russia just 16 hours earlier. ... a micro-asteroid and a near-Earth object of the Aten and Atira group, approximately 30 meters (98 ft) in diameter. It was discovered by astronomers of the Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca at its robotic La Sagra Observatory in 2012, and named for the duende, a goblin-like creature from Iberian and Filipino mythology and folklore. Duende is likely an uncommon L-type asteroid and significantly elongated. Pic. | |||
||2014: Thelma Estrin dies ... computer scientist and engineer. Pic. | |||
||2016: Wang Xuan dies ... computer scientist and academic, innovator of the Chinese printing industry. Pic search. | |||
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Latest revision as of 19:29, 19 January 2022
1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics."
1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to defeat the Forbidden Ratio in single combat.
1739: Mathematician, astronomer and poet Eustachio Manfredi dies. Manfredi's observations of asteroids provided early evidence, albeit unsought, of the revolution of the Earth around the Sun.
1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1946: ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
1959: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson dies. He won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
1988: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.
2011: The Stardust spacecraft flies by comet Tempel 1.