Template:Selected anniversaries/April 8: Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
 
(49 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
<gallery>
<gallery>
File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]] discovers superconductivity.
File:Rhizolith Group.jpg|link=Rhizolith Group|2001: [[Rhizolith Group]] announces world tour.
</gallery>


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michele_Mercati
File:Michele_Mercati_by_Petrus_Nellus.jpg|link=Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|1541: Physician and archaeologist [[Michele Mercati (nonfiction)|Michele Mercati]] born. Mercati will be one of the first scholars to recognize prehistoric stone tools as human-made rather than natural or mythologically created thunderstones.
 
File:David Rittenhouse by Charles Wilson Peale.jpg|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|link=David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|1732: Inventor, astronomer, mathematician, clockmaker, and surveyor [[David Rittenhouse (nonfiction)|David Rittenhouse]] born. Rittenhouse will become the first Director of the United States Mint, hand-striking the new nation's first coins.
 
File:Du_calcul_des_derivations_(1800)_by_Louis_François_Antoine_Arbogast.png|link=Louis François Antoine Arbogast (nonfiction)|1803: Mathematician [[Louis François Antoine Arbogast (nonfiction)|Louis François Antoine Arbogast]] dies. Arbogast was the first writer to separate the symbols of operation from those of quantity.  He wrote on series and the derivatives known by his name.
 
File:Marhall Harvey Stone Zurich 1932.jpg|link=Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|1903: Mathematician [[Marshall Harvey Stone (nonfiction)|Marshall Harvey Stone]] born. Stone will contribute to real analysis, functional analysis, topology, and the study of Boolean algebra structures.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rittenhouse
File:Heike Kamerlingh Onnes.jpg|link=Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|1911: Physicist [[Heike Kamerlingh Onnes (nonfiction)|Heike Kamerlingh Onnes]], discoverer of superconductivity, makes a terse entry in his notebook: ''Kwik nagenoeg nul'' ("Mercury[’s resistance] practically zero [at 3 K].").


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_von_Peuerbach
</gallery>

Latest revision as of 02:41, 8 April 2022