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||1537: Francesco Barozzi born ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic. | |||
||1722: Robert Sibbald dies ... physician and antiquary. Pic. | |||
||1726: Francesco Cetti born ... priest, zoologist, and mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1757: Thomas Telford born ... civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and road, bridge and canal builder. Such was his reputation as a prolific designer of highways and related bridges, he was dubbed The Colossus of Roads. Pic. | |||
||1776: Amedeo Avogadro born ... physicist and chemist. Pic. | |||
||1805: Joseph Locke born ... engineer and politician. Pic. | |||
||1820: Anders Sparrman dies ... naturalist, abolitionist and an apostle of Carl Linnaeus. Pic. | |||
||1853: Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński dies ... Messianist philosopher, mathematician, physicist, inventor, lawyer, and economist. He was born Hoene to a municipal architect in 1776 but changed his name in 1815. In 1803, Wroński joined the Marseille Observatory but was forced to leave the observatory after his theories were dismissed as grandiose rubbish. In mathematics, Wroński introduced a novel series expansion for a function in response to Joseph Louis Lagrange's use of infinite series. The coefficients in Wroński's new series form the Wronskian, a determinant Thomas Muir named in 1882. Pic. | |||
||1861: Dorothea Klumpke born ... astronomer and academic. Pic. | |||
||1876: Dmitry Dmitrievich Morduhai-Boltovskoi born ... mathematician, best known for his work in analysis, differential Galois theory, number theory, hyperbolic geometry, and history of mathematics. Pic. | |||
||1888: Charles Cros or Émile-Hortensius-Charles Cros dies ... poet and inventor. He was the first person to conceive a method for reproducing recorded sound, an invention he named the Paleophone. Cros was also interested in the fields of transmitting graphics by telegraph and making photographs in color. Pic. | |||
||1892: S. R. Ranganathan born ... mathematician, librarian, and academic. Pic. | |||
||1892: Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph. | |||
||1896: Glider pioneer Otto Lilienthal has fatal crash. | |||
||1896: Erich Hückel born ... physicist and chemist. Pic. | |||
File:Edward Frankland.jpg|link=Edward Frankland (nonfiction)|1899: Chemist [[Edward Frankland (nonfiction)|Edward Frankland]] dies. He was one of the originators of organometallic chemistry, introducing the concept of combining power or valence. | |||
||1903: Auguste Kerckhoffs dies ... linguist and cryptographer who was professor of languages at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales in Paris in the late 19th century. Pic. | |||
||1906: Robert Wertheimer Frucht born ... was a German-Chilean mathematician; his research specialty was graph theory and the symmetries of graphs. He is known for Frucht's theorem, the result that every group can be realized as the group of symmetries of an undirected graph, and for the Frucht graph, one of the two smallest cubic graphs without any nontrivial symmetries. Pic = Frucht's graph. | |||
||1907: Platon Poretsky dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and logician. Pic. Different DOB at On This Day in Math. | |||
||1911: William Alfred Fowler born ... astronomer and astrophysicist, Nobel Laureate. | |||
||1916: Peter Maurice Wright born ... principal scientific officer for MI5, the British counter-intelligence agency. His book Spycatcher became an international bestseller with sales of over two million copies. Spycatcher was part memoir, part exposé of what Wright claimed were serious institutional failings in MI5 and his subsequent investigations into those. | |||
||1919: Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel dies ... biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist, and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms, and coined many terms in biology. Pic. | |||
||1923: Alladi Ramakrishnan born ... physicist and the founder of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (Matscience) in Chennai. He made contributions to stochastic process, particle physics, algebra of matrices, special theory of relativity and quantum mechanics. Pic. | |||
||1925: David A. Huffman born ... computer scientist, developed Huffman coding. | |||
File:Marvin Minsky.jpg|link=Marvin Minsky (nonfiction)|1927: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher [[Marvin Minsky (nonfiction)|Marvin Minsky]] born. | |||
||1929: Pierre Fatou dies ... French mathematician and astronomer. Pic. | |||
File:John Charles Fields.jpg|link=John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|1932: Mathematician [[John Charles Fields (nonfiction)|John Charles Fields]] dies. He founded the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics. | |||
||1944: Anatole Katok born ... mathematician with Russian origins. Katok was the Director of the Center for Dynamics and Geometry at the Pennsylvania State University. His field of research was the theory of dynamical systems. Pic. | |||
||1945: Albert Jay Nock dies ... theorist, author, and critic born ... conservative, first self-identified libertarian. Pic. | |||
||1945: World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 35,000 people are killed outright, including 23,200-28,200 Japanese war workers, 2,000 Korean forced workers, and 150 Japanese soldiers. | |||
||1950: Karl Rudolf Fueter dies ... mathematician, known for his work on number theory. He will do research on algebraic number theory and quaternion analysis. He also published a proof of the Fueter–Pólya theorem with George Pólya. Pic. | |||
||1952: Roman Juszkiewicz born ... astrophysicist whose work concerned fundamental issues of cosmology. Pic. | |||
||1957: Soviet submarine K-3 Leninsky Komsomol launched ... the first nuclear submarine of the Soviet Union. Pic. | |||
||1968: Operation Prairie Flat: nuclear test involving the detonation of a 500-short-ton (454 t) spherical surface charge of TNT to evaluate airblast, ground shock and thermal effects of nuclear weapons. Pic. | |||
||1969: C. F. Powell dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]], Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president. | |||
||1993: Donald William Kerst dies ... physicist who worked on advanced particle accelerator concepts (accelerator physics) and plasma physics. He is most notable for his development of the betatron, a novel type of particle accelerator used to accelerate electrons. Pic. | |||
||1994: Helena Rasiowa dies ... mathematician and academic. Rasiowa worked in the foundations of mathematics and algebraic logic. Pic. | |||
||1996: Frank Whittle dies ... English soldier and engineer, invented the jet engine. Pic. | |||
||1999: Abraham Haskel Taub dies ... mathematician and physicist, well known for his important contributions to the early development of general relativity, as well as differential geometry and differential equations. Pic. | |||
||2000: John Charles Harsanyi dies ... economist. He is best known for his contributions to the study of game theory and its application to economics, specifically for his developing the highly innovative analysis of games of incomplete information, so-called Bayesian games. He also made important contributions to the use of game theory and economic reasoning in political and moral philosophy. Pic. | |||
||2002: George Alfred Barnard dies ... statistician known particularly for his work on the foundations of statistics and on quality control. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=George+Barnard+statistician | |||
||2002: American linguist and codebreaker Meredith Knox Gardner born. Gardner worked in counter-intelligence, decoding Soviet intelligence traffic regarding espionage in the United States, in what came to be known as the Venona project. Pic. | |||
File:James Van Allen.jpg|link=James Van Allen (nonfiction)|2006: Physicist and philosopher [[James Van Allen (nonfiction)|James Van Allen]] dies. The Van Allen radiation belts are named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958. | |||
||2007: Akutsu Tetsuzo dies ... surgeon who built the first artificial heart that was implanted and kept an animal alive. He was a thoracic surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic in 1957 when he was asked by Dr. Willem Kolff to collaborate in the pioneering project. On 12 Dec 1957, it kept a dog alive for 90 minutes. Thus, a new frontier was opened for artificial heart development for humans. Akutsu became assistant director at the Texas Heart Institute, and continued to develop his total artificial heart. Dr Denton Cooley had already implanted the first artifial heart in a human in 1969, but Akutsu was on his team for the implantation of the second human artificial heart at THI in 1981. After that, he returned to Japan and continued taking a major leadership role as a world expert developing the field. He published ''Heart Replacement: Artificial Heart''. Pic: https://www.todayinsci.com/8/8_20.htm | |||
||2012: Gene Franklin dies ... electrical engineer and control theorist known for his pioneering work towards the advancement of the control systems engineering – a subfield of electrical engineering. Most of his work on control theory was adapted immediately into NASA's U.S. space program, most famously in the control systems for the Apollo missions to the moon in 1960s–70s. Pic. | |||
||2015: John Henry Holland dies ... was an American scientist and Professor of psychology and Professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was a pioneer in what became known as genetic algorithms. Pic. | |||
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1899: Chemist Edward Frankland dies. He was one of the originators of organometallic chemistry, introducing the concept of combining power or valence.
1927: Cognitive scientist and artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky born.
1932: Mathematician John Charles Fields dies. He founded the Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in mathematics.
1974: As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
2006: Physicist and philosopher James Van Allen dies. The Van Allen radiation belts are named after him, following their discovery by his Geiger–Müller tube instruments aboard satellites in 1958.