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File: | File:Cover of Filosofia naturale by Alessandro Piccolomini.jpg|link=Alessandro Piccolomini (nonfiction)|1508: Humanist and philosopher [[Alessandro Piccolomini (nonfiction)|Alessandro Piccolomini]] born. Piccolomini will promote vernacular translations of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises. | ||
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||1539: Jost Amman born ... printmaker. Pic. | |||
File:Giovanni Antonio Magini.jpg|link=Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer [[Giovanni Antonio Magini (nonfiction)|Giovanni Antonio Magini]] born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system. | |||
File:Willebrord Snellius.jpg|link=|1580: Astronomer and mathematician [[Willebrord Snellius (nonfiction)|Willebrord Snellius]] born. In 1615 he will conduct a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%. | |||
||1582: Matteo Tafuri dies ... philosopher, astrologer and physician. Pic: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matteo_Tafuri | |||
||1724: Georges-Louis Le Sage born ... physicist and is most known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph and his anticipation of the kinetic theory of gases. Pic. | |||
||1753: Johan Afzelius born ... chemist and notable as the doctoral advisor of one of the founders of modern chemistry, Jöns Jacob Berzelius. He was the brother of botanist Adam Afzelius and physician Pehr von Afzelius. Pic. | |||
||1762: Physician Dorothea Erxleben dies. Erxleben was the first female medical doctor in Germany. Pic. | |||
File:Thomas Young.jpg|link=Thomas Young (nonfiction)|1773: Polymath and physician [[Thomas Young (nonfiction)|Thomas Young]] born. Young will make notable scientific contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. | |||
||1792: William Austin Burt born ... inventor, legislator, surveyor, and millwright. He was the inventor, maker and patentee of the first typewriter constructed in America. He is referred to as the "father of the typewriter". Burt also invented the first workable solar compass, a solar use surveying instrument, and the equatorial sextant, a precision navigational aid to determine with one observation the location of a ship at sea. Pic. | |||
||1812: Photographer Adolphe Braun born ... best known for his floral still lifes, Parisian street scenes, and grand Alpine landscapes. One of the most influential French photographers of the 19th century, he used contemporary innovations in photographic reproduction to market his photographs worldwide. In his later years, he used photographic techniques to reproduce famous works of art, which helped advance the field of art history. Pic. | |||
||1815: Osip Ivanovich Somov born ... mathematician. Pic. | |||
||1822: Carl Schmidt born ... chemist and academic. He determined the typical crystallization patterns of many important biochemicals such as uric acid, oxalic acid and its salts, lactic acid, cholesterin, stearin, etc. Pic. | |||
File:James Clerk Maxwell.png|link=James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist and mathematician [[James Clerk Maxwell (nonfiction)|James Clerk Maxwell]] born. His discoveries will help usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics. | |||
File:Charles Algernon Parsons.jpg|link=Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|1854: Engineer and inventor [[Charles Algernon Parsons (nonfiction)|Charles Algernon Parsons]] born. He will invent the compound steam turbine, and work on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes. | |||
||1854: Bradley Allen Fiske born ... officer in the United States Navy who was noted as a technical innovator. During his long career, Fiske invented more than a hundred and thirty electrical and mechanical devices, with both naval and civilian uses, and wrote extensively on technical and professional issues; The New Yorker called him "one of the notable naval inventors of all time." One of the earliest to understand the revolutionary possibilities of naval aviation, he wrote a number of books of important effect in gaining a wider understanding of the modern Navy by the public. Pic. | |||
||1868: Wallace Clement Sabine born ... physicist and academic ... architectural acoustics. Pic. | |||
||1870: Jules Bordet born ... immunologist and microbiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1871: Ernst Steinitz born ... mathematician. Pic: https://ztfnews.wordpress.com/2013/09/29/%EF%BB%BFernst-steinitz%EF%BB%BF-1871-1928/ | |||
||1876: William Sealy Gosset born ... chemist and statistician. Pic. | |||
||1884: Leon Chwistek born ... painter, philosopher, and mathematician. Pic: portrait by Witkacy, 1913. | |||
||1893: Alan Arnold Griffith born ... engineer. Among many other contributions he is best known for his work on stress and fracture in metals that is now known as metal fatigue, as well as being one of the first to develop a strong theoretical basis for the jet engine. Pic search. | |||
||1902: Carolyn Eisele born ... mathematician and historian. | |||
||1903: Willard Harrison Bennett born ... physicist and chemist. | |||
||1906: Bruno de Finetti born ... mathematician and statistician. | |||
||1911: Luis Walter Alvarez born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1911: Erwin Wilhelm Müller born ... physicist and academic. | |||
||1920: Rolf Huisgen born ... chemist and academic. Pic. | |||
||1920: Iosif Vorovich born ... mathematician and engineer. Vorovich specialized in continuum mechanics and the theory of elasticity; his main works deal with mathematical problems of continuum mechanics, the nonlinear theory of shells, problems of stress concentration and thick plates, and mixed problems in the theory of elasticity. Pic search. | |||
||1923: Lloyd Conover born ... chemist and inventor ... the inventor of tetracycline. Pic search. | |||
||1927: Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City. Pic. | |||
||1928: John Forbes Nash, Jr. born ... mathematician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1931: Kitasato Shibasaburō dies ... physician and bacteriologist. He will discover the infectious agent of bubonic plague in Hong Kong in 1894, almost simultaneously with Alexandre Yersin. Pic. | |||
File:Herbert Wilf.jpg|link=Herbert Wilf (nonfiction)|1931: Mathematician and academic [[Herbert Wilf (nonfiction)|Herbert Saul Wilf]] born. Wilf specialized in combinatorics and graph theory. | |||
||1931: Herbert Saul Wilf born ... mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. Pic. | |||
||1952: Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter. | |||
||1966: The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them. | |||
||1972: Georg von Békésy dies ... biophysicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1977: Convicted Martin Luther King Jr. assassin James Earl Ray is recaptured after escaping from prison three days before. Pic. | |||
||1980: Paul Althaus Smith dies ... mathematician. His name occurs in two significant conjectures in geometric topology: the Smith conjecture, which is now a theorem, and the Hilbert–Smith conjecture, still open as of 2010. Pic. | |||
||1983: Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune. | |||
||1994: A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages. | |||
||2010: A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth. | |||
||2012: William Standish Knowles dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. He shared half the prize with Ryōji Noyori for their work in asymmetric synthesis, specifically for his work in hydrogenation reactions. Pic. | |||
File:Angus (13 June 2021) 20210613_070145.jpg|link=Angus (13 June 2021)|2021: '''[[Angus (13 June 2021)|Angus]]'''. | |||
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Latest revision as of 07:02, 13 June 2024
1508: Humanist and philosopher Alessandro Piccolomini born. Piccolomini will promote vernacular translations of Latin and Greek scientific and philosophical treatises.
1555: Mathematician, cartographer, and astronomer Giovanni Antonio Magini born. He will support a geocentric system of the world, in preference to Copernicus's heliocentric system.
1580: Astronomer and mathematician Willebrord Snellius born. In 1615 he will conduct a large-scale experiment to measure the circumference of the earth using triangulation, underestimating the circumference of the earth by 3.5%.
1773: Polymath and physician Thomas Young born. Young will make notable scientific contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology.
1831: Physicist and mathematician James Clerk Maxwell born. His discoveries will help usher in the era of modern physics, laying the foundation for such fields as special relativity and quantum mechanics.
1854: Engineer and inventor Charles Algernon Parsons born. He will invent the compound steam turbine, and work on dynamo and turbine design, power generation, and optical equipment for searchlights and telescopes.
1931: Mathematician and academic Herbert Saul Wilf born. Wilf specialized in combinatorics and graph theory.
2021: Angus.