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File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|[[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] photographed by | ||411 BC: The Athenian coup succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy. | ||
||AD 53: The Roman emperor Nero marries Claudia Octavia. | |||
||AD 68: Nero commits suicide, after quoting Homer's Iliad, thus ending the Julio-Claudian dynasty and starting the civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors. | |||
||1717: Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon dies ... mystic. Pic. | |||
||1768: Samuel Slater born ... industrialist known as the "Father of the American Industrial Revolution" (a phrase coined by Andrew Jackson) and the "Father of the American Factory System." In the UK, he was called "Slater the Traitor" because he brought British textile technology to America, modifying it for United States use. Pic. | |||
||1781: George Stephenson born ... engineer, designed the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Pic. | |||
||1786: William George Horner born ... mathematician; he was a schoolmaster, headmaster and schoolkeeper, proficient in classics as well as mathematics, who wrote extensively on functional equations, number theory and approximation theory, but also on optics. He invented the Daedaleum in 1834, re-discovering the Zoetrope. Pic: http://uchihahyral.blogspot.com/2013/02/william-george-horner-1786-1837.html | |||
||1812: Johann Gottfried Galle born ... astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view the planet Neptune and know what he was looking at. Urbain Le Verrier had predicted the existence and position of Neptune, and sent the coordinates to Galle, asking him to verify. Pic. | |||
File:Pierre Duhem.jpg|link=Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|1861: Physicist, mathematician, and historian [[Pierre Duhem (nonfiction)|Pierre Duhem]] born. He will write: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws." | |||
||1861: Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann born ... chemist-physicist of Estonian and Baltic-German descent who made important contributions in the fields of glassy and solid solutions, heterogeneous equilibria, crystallization, and metallurgy. Pic. | |||
||1875: Henry Hallett Dale born ... pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1875: Gérard Paul Deshayes dies ... geologist and conchologist. Pic search limited: https://www.google.com/search?q=Gérard+Paul+Deshayes Pic book cover: https://data.bnf.fr/fr/12459618/gerard-paul_deshayes/ | |||
||1885: Mathematician John Edensor Littlewood born. He will contribute to analysis, number theory, and differential equations; and will be remembered for his long collaboration with G. H. Hardy. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=john+edensor+littlewood | |||
||1903: Alan Blumlein born ... engineer ... important. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=alan+blumlein | |||
||1906: Robert Klark Graham born ... eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=robert+klark+graham | |||
||1909: Erhard Fernholz born ... chemist. He investigated sterols and bile acids; his work on stigma-sterol contributed to the first partial synthesis of progesterone. Fernholz also did pioneering research on the anti-hemorrhagic properties of Vitamin K. Pic. | |||
||1912: Gerald James Whitrow born ... mathematician, cosmologist, and historian. His main contributions were in the fields of cosmology and astrophysics, but his interests included the history and philosophy of science, with a particular focus on the concept of time. Pic | |||
||1922: Fernand Seguin born ... biochemist and academic. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Fernand+Seguin | |||
||1930: A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone. | |||
||1942: John Norman Mather born ... mathematician and academic ... worked on singularity theory and Hamiltonian dynamics. Pic. | |||
||1942: American diplomat Bonner Fellers switches to a newly adopted U.S. code system, depriving the Axis of further information from the broken Black code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_(code) | |||
||1944: World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks. | |||
||1947: Eugene Franklin Mallove born ... scientist, science writer, editor, and publisher of Infinite Energy magazine, and founder of the non-profit organization New Energy Foundation. He was a proponent of cold fusion, and a supporter of its research and related exploratory alternative energy topics, several of which are sometimes characterised as "fringe science". | |||
File:Dalton Trumbo prison 1950.jpg|link=Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|1950: Novelist and screenwriter [[Dalton Trumbo (nonfiction)|Dalton Trumbo]] is photographed Bureau of Prisons authorities. Trumbo will serve eleven months in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Wisconsin for refusing to testify before [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]]. | |||
File:J._R._Oppenheimer.jpg|link=J. R. Oppenheimer|1953: Singer-physicist [[J. R. Oppenheimer]]'s song "Destroyer of Worlds" is condemned by the [[House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)|House Un-American Activities Committee]] as "pernicious satire which knowingly demeans the national security state." | |||
File:Welch-McCarthy Hearings.jpg|link=McCarthyism (nonfiction)|1954: "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" —Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army. See [[McCarthyism (nonfiction)|McCarthyism]]. | |||
||1959: The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. | |||
||1959: Adolf Windaus dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||1969: Harold Davenport dies ... mathematician, known for his extensive work in number theory. Pic. | |||
||1986: Ernst Peschl dies ... mathematician. His main areas of research were geometric complex analysis, partial differential equations, and the theory of functions of several complex variables. Pic. | |||
||1987: Wilhelm Tolmé Runge dies ... electrical engineer and physicist who had a major involvement in developing radar systems in Germany. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Wilhelm-Runge | |||
||1989: George Wells Beadle dies ... scientist in the field of genetics, and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Nobel laureate who with Edward Tatum discovered the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells in 1958. Pic. | |||
||1994: Jan Tinbergen dies ... economist. He was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of econometrics. Pic. | |||
||2003: Belding Hibbard Scribner dies ... physician and a pioneer in kidney dialysis. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Belding+Hibbard+Scribner | |||
||2004: Eugene Franklin Mallove dies ... scientist, science writer, editor, and publisher of Infinite Energy magazine, and founder of the non-profit organization New Energy Foundation. He was a proponent of cold fusion, and a supporter of its research and related exploratory alternative energy topics, several of which are sometimes characterised as "fringe science". | |||
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Latest revision as of 17:49, 6 February 2022
1861: Physicist, mathematician, and historian Pierre Duhem born. He will write: "A theory of physics is not an explanation. It is a system of mathematical propositions, deduced from a small number of principles, which have for their aim to represent as simply, as completely and as exactly as possible, a group of experimental laws."
1950: Novelist and screenwriter Dalton Trumbo is photographed Bureau of Prisons authorities. Trumbo will serve eleven months in the federal penitentiary in Ashland, Wisconsin for refusing to testify before House Un-American Activities Committee.
1953: Singer-physicist J. R. Oppenheimer's song "Destroyer of Worlds" is condemned by the House Un-American Activities Committee as "pernicious satire which knowingly demeans the national security state."
1954: "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" —Joseph Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether Communism has infiltrated the Army. See McCarthyism.