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||1184 BC: Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes. | |||
File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1644: Physicist and mathematician [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] writes in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: ''Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria'' ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air"). | |||
||1665: Kenelm Digby dies ... astrologer, courtier, and diplomat. Powder of sympathy. Pic. | |||
||1723: Johann Georg Palitzsch born ... astronomer. He became famous for recovering Comet 1P/Halley (better known as Halley's Comet) on Christmas Day, 1758. The periodic nature of this comet had been deduced by its namesake Edmond Halley in 1705, but Halley had died before seeing if his prediction would come true. Pic. | |||
||1842: Carl von Linde born ... engineer and academic. He discovered a refrigeration cycle and invented the first industrial-scale air separation and gas liquefaction processes. Pic. | |||
||1860: Baden Powell dies ... mathematician and Church of England priest. He held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at the University of Oxford from 1827 to 1860. Powell was a prominent liberal theologian who put forward advanced ideas about evolution. Pic. | |||
||1867: Charles Fabry born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | |||
||1867: Daniel Vorländer born ... chemist who synthesized most of the liquid crystals known until his retirement in 1935. An interesting discovery was that amongst the slimy liquid crystals were many soap and soap-like compounds. No pics online: https://www.google.com/search?q=Daniel+Vorländer | |||
||1886: David Barnard Steinman born ... engineer whose studies of airflow and wind velocity helped make possible the design of aerodynamically stable bridges. Steinman's thesis for his Ph.D. from Colombia University (1911) was published as "The Design of the Henry Hudson Memorial Bridge as a Steel Arch, and more than 20 years later he built the bridge he had planned over the Harlem River. Steinman designed more than 400 bridges. He also published children's books and poetry. Pic. | |||
File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1887: Electrical engineer and physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] marries Clara Ripley. | File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1887: Electrical engineer and physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] marries Clara Ripley. | ||
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||1895: Daniel Kirkwood dies ... astronomer. Pic. | |||
||1897: Carl Remigius Fresenius dies ... chemist, known for his studies in analytical chemistry. Pic. | |||
||1898: Ivar Waller born ... professor of theoretical physics at Uppsala University. He developed the theory of X-ray scattering by lattice vibrations of a crystal, building upon the prior work of Peter Debye. Pic. | |||
||1903: Nikolai Bugaev dies ... mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1909: Natascha Artin Brunswick, née Jasny born ... mathematician and photographer. Pic. | |||
||1910: Jacques Cousteau born ... biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung. Pic. | |||
||1912: Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff born ... philosopher, mathematician and epistemologist.[1] He was also a university lecturer at the University of Tübingen. During World War II, Freytag-Löringhoff worked as a mathematician in the In 7/VI, that was the signals intelligence agency of the Wehrmacht and worked with Fritz Menzer on the testing of cryptographic devices and procedures. Freytag-Löringhoff worked specifically on the testing of the m-40 cipher machine. His most important contributions to the history of logic and mathematics was his studies and descriptions from 1957, of the calculating machine, built by Wilhelm Schickard. Pic. | |||
||1915: Eduard Riecke dies ... experimental physicist. Pic. | |||
File:Nicholas Metropolis.png|link=Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and physicist [[Nicholas Metropolis (nonfiction)|Nicholas Metropolis]] born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method. | |||
||1917: Boyce Dawkins McDaniel dies ... nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later directed the Cornell University Laboratory of Nuclear Studies (LNS). McDaniel was skilled in constructing "atom smashing" devices to study the fundamental structure of matter and helped to build the most powerful particle accelerators of his time. Together with his graduate student, he invented the pair spectrometer. Pic. | |||
||1935: Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey. Pic. | |||
||1936: Julius Nieuwland dies ... priest, chemist and academic ... contributions to acetylene research and its use as the basis for one type of synthetic rubber, which eventually led to the invention of neoprene. Pic. | |||
||1937: R. J. Mitchell dies ... engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire. Pic. | |||
||1943: Henry Hill born ... mobster. Pic. | |||
||1955: The Le Mans disaster occurred during the 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race at Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, France on 11 June 1955. A major crash caused large fragments of debris to fly into the crowd, killing 83 spectators and French driver Pierre Bouillin (who raced under the name Pierre Levegh) and injuring nearly 180 more. It was the most catastrophic crash in motorsport history, and it prompted Mercedes-Benz to retire from motor racing until 1989. | |||
||1957: Maurice Audin dies ... mathematics assistant at the University of Algiers, a member of the Algerian Communist Party and an activist in the anticolonialist cause, who was one of the "disappeared" during the Battle of Algiers. Pic. | |||
||1965: Paul B. Coremans dies ... chemist and academic. WWII monuments. Pic search. | |||
||1968: Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types. Pic. | |||
||1969: Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner dies ... engineer and a pioneer of sound-on-film technology. Pic. | |||
||1990: John Henry Manley dies ... physicist who worked with J. Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley before becoming a group leader during the Manhattan Project. Pic. | |||
||1998: Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition. | |||
||2002: Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress. | |||
||2002: Bertrand Goldschmidt dies ... chemist ... one of the fathers of the French atomic bomb, which was tested for the first time in 1960 in the nuclear test Gerboise Bleue. | |||
||2004: Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe. | |||
||2008: The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit. | |||
||2014: Susan B. Horwitz dies ... computer scientist and academic ... noted for her research on programming languages and software engineering, and in particular on program slicing and dataflow-analysis. Pic search. | |||
File:Self portrait (11 June 2024) 20240611_203802.jpg|link=Self portrait (11 June 2024)|2024: '''[[Self portrait (11 June 2024)|Self portrait]]'''. | |||
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Latest revision as of 19:20, 11 June 2024
1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli writes in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.
1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
2024: Self portrait.