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File:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.jpg|link=|1581: Mathematician and linguist [[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]] born. He will do work in number theory and find a method of constructing magic squares. | ||892: Al-Tirmidhi dies ... scholar and hadith compiler. No DOB. Pic: seal (confirm meaning). | ||
File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|1859: [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] born. He will be wrongly convicted of treason during the [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]]. | |||
File: | ||1253: Robert Grosseteste dies ... English statesman, scholastic philosopher, theologian, scientist and Bishop of Lincoln. A. C. Crombie calls him "the real founder of the tradition of scientific thought in medieval Oxford, and in some ways, of the modern English intellectual tradition". Pic. | ||
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File:Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac.jpg|link=Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|1581: Mathematician and linguist [[Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (nonfiction)|Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac]] born. He will do work in number theory and find a method of constructing magic squares. | |||
||1604: Supernova 1604, the most recent supernova to be observed in the Milky Way. | |||
||1676: Leeuwenhoek writes to Oldenburg to describe the "little animals" he sees in his microscope. "The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that [ten hundred thousand] of these little Creatures do not equal an ordinary grain of Sand in bigness: And comparing them with a Cheese-mite (which may be seen to move with the naked eye) I make the proportion of one of these small Water-creatures to a Cheese-mite, to be like that of a Bee to a Horse: For, the circumference of one of these little Animals in water, is not so big as the thickness of a hair in a Cheese-mite." | |||
||1704: Johann Andreas Segner, German mathematician, physicist, and physician. Pic. | |||
File:Leonhard Euler.jpg|link=Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|1775: A paper by [[Leonhard Euler (nonfiction)|Leonhard Euler]], ''Speculationes circa quasdam insignes proprietates numerorum'', was presented at the Saint-Petersburg Academy. In this paper, he revisits the idea that has come to be called Euler's Phi function. He first introduced the idea to the Academy on Oct 15,1759 but did not include a symbol or name. Euler defined the function as "the multitude of numbers less than D, and which have no common divisor with it." | |||
||1801: Auguste Arthur de la Rive born ... physicist. Pic. | |||
||1806: Benjamin Banneker dies ... astronomer and surveyor. Pic. | |||
||1807: Giovanni Francesco Giuseppe Malfatti, also known as Gian Francesco or Gianfrancesco, dies ... mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1837: Francis Wayland Parker born ... theorist and academic. Pic. | |||
||1843: Christian Christiansen born ... physicist. He mainly studied radiant heat and optical dispersion, discovering the Christiansen effect (Christiansen filter). Around 1917, he discovered the anomalous dispersion of numerous dyes, including aniline red (fuchsine), by recording absorption spectra. Pic. | |||
||1852: Hermann Emil Fischer born ... chemist and academic ... 1902 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He also discovered the Fischer esterification. He developed the Fischer projection, a symbolic way of drawing asymmetric carbon atoms. Pic. | |||
||1855: Joshua C. Stoddard of Worcester, Massachusetts, received a patent for his calliope. The first instrument consisted of 15 whistles, of graduated sizes, attached in a row to the top of a small steam boiler. A long cylinder with pins of different shapes driven into it ran the length of the boiler. The pins were so arranged that when the cylinder revolved, they pressed the valves and blew the whistles in proper sequence. The different shapes enabled the operator to play notes of varying length. Later, Stoddard replaced the cylinder with a keyboard. Wires running from the keys to the valves enabled the operator to play the instrument like a piano. He patented a successful hay rake in 1879 and a fire escape in 1884. He died on April 4, 1902. Pic search. | |||
||1857: Josef Ressel dies ... inventor, invented the propeller. Pic. | |||
||1858: Mihajlo Pupin born ... physicist and chemist. Pic. | |||
File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|link=Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|1859: [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] born. He will be wrongly convicted of treason during the [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]]. | |||
||1869: Otto Linné Erdmann dies ... chemist and academic. He is best known for his work on nickel and indigo and other dye-stuffs. With R. F. Marchand (1813–1850) he also carried out a number of determinations of atomic weights. Pic. | |||
||1873: Karl Schwarzschild born ... physicist and astronomer. Pic. | |||
||1879: Max von Laue born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1898: Heinrich Adolph Louis Behnke born ... mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1900: Joseph Friedman born ... inventor, invented the bendy straw. pic. | |||
File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1903: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference. | |||
||1909: Bailie Hugh Blackburn dies ... mathematician. A lifelong friend of William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin), and the husband of illustrator Jemima Blackburn, he was professor of mathematics at the University of Glasgow from 1849 to 1879. Pic. | |||
||1911: Luís Antoni Santaló Sors born - mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1912: Qian Weichang born ... physicist and applied mathematician. He was generally acknowledged as one of the pioneers and founders of modern mechanics undertakings in China. His major research activities include; the intrinsic theory of plates and shells, the analysis of large deflection of thin plates and shells, the analysis of corrugated pipes, mechanics of armour penetration, singular perturbation methods, variational principles and generalized variational principles, finite element methods as well as the measurements of atmospheric electricity, spectral analysis of rare-earth elements, wave guide theory, lubrication theory, the development of high-energy batteries, his macro-coding of Chinese characters, etc. The joint work with J. L. Synge on the intrinsic theory of plates and shells is considered as a pioneering classical work in solid mechanics and his successive approximation method of treating large deflection problem is now named as "Chien's method". Pic. | |||
File:E. Howard Hunt.jpg|link=E. Howard Hunt (nonfiction)|1918: CIA officer and author [[E. Howard Hunt (nonfiction)|E. Howard Hunt]] born. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt will plot the [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration]]. | |||
||1930: Enrico Forlanini dies ... engineer, inventor and aeronautical pioneer, known for his works on helicopters, aircraft, hydrofoils and dirigibles. Pic. | |||
||1930: Ian Robertson Porteous born ... mathematician at the University of Liverpool and an educator on Merseyside. He is best known for three books on geometry and modern algebra. Pic: http://hodge.maths.ed.ac.uk/tiki/Ian+Porteous | |||
||1933: Peter Mansfield born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1936: Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed to Hoover Dam) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles. | |||
||1943: Pieter Zeeman dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1943: S. Barry Cooper born ... mathematician and computability theorist. His book ''Computability Theory'' made the technical research area accessible to a new generation of students. Pic. | |||
File:Joseph Wedderburn.jpg|link=Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|1948: Mathematician [[Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|Joseph Wedderburn]] dies. He made significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras. | |||
||1955: George Placzek dies ... physicist. Together with Otto Frisch, he suggested a direct experimental proof of nuclear fission. Together with Niels Bohr and others, he was instrumental in clarifying the role of Uranium 235 for the possibility of nuclear chain reaction. Pic. | |||
||1959: Henry Thomas Tizard dies ... chemist, inventor and Rector of Imperial College, who developed the modern "octane rating" used to classify petrol, helped develop radar in World War II, and led the first serious studies of UFOs. Pic: https://www.todayinsci.com/8/8_23.htm | |||
||1962: Milan Vidmar dies ... chess player and engineer. | |||
||1967: Cyril Norman Hinshelwood dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1976: Yevgeny Zavoisky dies ... physicist known for discovery of electron paramagnetic resonance in 1944. He likely observed nuclear magnetic resonance in 1941, well before Felix Bloch and Edward Mills Purcell, but dismissed the results as not reproducible. Zavoisky is also credited with design of luminescence camera for detection of nuclear processes in 1952 and discovery of magneto-acoustic resonance in plasma in 1958. Pic. | |||
||1987: William P. Murphy dies ... physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1988: Felix Wankel dies ... engineer, invented the Wankel engine. Pic. | |||
||1990: Georges de Rham dies ... mathematician, known for his contributions to differential topology. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/PictDisplay/De_Rham.html | |||
||1992: A great meteor, seen from Kentucky to New York, was observed at 7:50 pm EDT. It landed as a stone (chondrite, Olivine-Bronzite, H6, brecciated) meteorite. Its 12.37 kg mass crashed onto the Chevrolet Malibu car of Mrs. Michelle Knapp of Wells Street in Peekskill, NY. The fireball was first seen over West Virginia and traveled about 700 km NE, before smashing into the parked car with a velocity of about 80 m/s. | |||
||1999: Milton "Bags" Jackson dies ... jazz vibraphonist, usually thought of as a bebop player, although he performed in several jazz idioms. He is especially remembered for his cool swinging solos as a member of the Modern Jazz Quartet and his penchant for collaborating with several hard bop and post-bop players. | |||
||2009: First lunar impact of the Centaur and LCROSS spacecrafts as part of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program. | |||
||2010: Alfred Jacobus (Alf) van der Poorten dies ... number theorist. Pic. | |||
||2010: Maurice Allais dies ... economist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
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Latest revision as of 05:06, 15 February 2022
1581: Mathematician and linguist Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac born. He will do work in number theory and find a method of constructing magic squares.
1775: A paper by Leonhard Euler, Speculationes circa quasdam insignes proprietates numerorum, was presented at the Saint-Petersburg Academy. In this paper, he revisits the idea that has come to be called Euler's Phi function. He first introduced the idea to the Academy on Oct 15,1759 but did not include a symbol or name. Euler defined the function as "the multitude of numbers less than D, and which have no common divisor with it."
1859: Alfred Dreyfus born. He will be wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
1903: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.
1918: CIA officer and author E. Howard Hunt born. Along with G. Gordon Liddy, Hunt will plot the Watergate burglaries and other undercover operations for the Nixon administration.
1948: Mathematician Joseph Wedderburn dies. He made significant contributions to algebra, proving that a finite division algebra is a field, and proving part of the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras.