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||1467: The Battle of Molinella: The first battle in Italy in which firearms are used extensively. | |||
||1471: Thomas à Kempis dies ... priest and mystic. No DOB. Pic. | |||
||1573 (or 1575): Christoph Scheiner born ... astronomer and Jesuit. Pic. | |||
File:Andreas Libavius.jpg|link=Andreas Libavius (nonfiction)|1616: Physician, alchemist and chemist [[Andreas Libavius (nonfiction)|Andreas Libavius]] dies. He accepted the Paracelsian principle of using occult properties to explain phenomena with no apparent cause, but rejected the conclusion that a thing possessing these properties must have an astral connection to the divine. | |||
File:Charles Messier.jpg|link=Charles Messier (nonfiction)|1748: Astronomer [[Charles Messier (nonfiction)|Charles Messier]]'s interest in astronomy is stimulated by an annular solar eclipse visible from his hometown. | |||
File:Johann Benedict Listing.jpg|link=Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|1808: Mathematician [[Johann Benedict Listing (nonfiction)|Johann Benedict Listing]] born. He will introduce the term "topology", first in correspondence, then in a famous article published in 1847. | |||
||1825: Mathematician Henry Wilbraham born. He is known for discovering and explaining the Gibbs phenomenon nearly fifty years before J. Willard Gibbs did. Gibbs and Maxime Bôcher, as well as nearly everyone else, were unaware of Wilbraham's work on the Gibbs phenomenon. Pic search. | |||
File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|1837: The first commercial use of an [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|electrical telegraph]] is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone. | File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|1837: The first commercial use of an [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction)|electrical telegraph]] is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone. | ||
File:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|link=Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|1920: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer [[Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|Rosalind Franklin]] born. She will make contributions to the | File:Dominique Jean Larrey.jpg|link=Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|1842: Physician and surgeon [[Dominique Jean Larrey (nonfiction)|Dominique Jean Larrey]] dies. He was an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, and is often considered the first modern military surgeon. | ||
||1842: Daniel Paul Schreber born ... judge who suffered from what was then diagnosed as dementia praecox (later known as paranoid schizophrenia or schizophrenia, paranoid type). Though Schreber's book was made famous because of its value as a psychological memoir, the reason Schreber wrote the book was not for reasons of psychology. Schreber's purpose was expressed in its subtitle (which was not translated as part of the English edition, but fully reproduced inside it): "In what circumstance can a person deemed insane be detained in an asylum against his declared will?" Schreber, an accomplished jurist, wrote these memoirs in order to pose a legal question, namely, to what extent is it legitimate to keep someone like himself in an asylum when he expressly declares he desires his liberty. Pic. | |||
||1843: Charles Macintosh dies ... chemist and engineer. Pic. | |||
||1847: Paul Langerhans born ... pathologist, physiologist and biologist. Pic. | |||
||1881: Karl Christian Bruhns dies ... astronomer. Pic. | |||
||1909: Wolfgang R. Wasow born ... mathematician known for his work in asymptotic expansions and their applications in differential equations. Pic. | |||
||1909: Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from (Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom) in 37 minutes. | |||
||1913: British civil servant, intelligence officer, and spy John Cairncross born. During the Second World War, he passed the information to the Soviets that influenced the Battle of Kursk. He was alleged to be the fifth member of the Cambridge Five spy ring. Pic. | |||
||1916: Fred Lasswell born ... cartoonist, Barney Google and Snuffy Smith. Pic (cartoon). | |||
File:Rosalind Franklin.jpg|link=Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|1920: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer [[Rosalind Franklin (nonfiction)|Rosalind Franklin]] born. She will make contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid). | |||
||1920: Chushiro Hayashi born ... astrophysicist. He will perform the astrophysical calculations that will lead to the Hayashi tracks of star formation, and the Hayashi limit that puts a limit on star radius. Pic: https://www.kyotoprize.org/en/laureates/chushiro_hayashi/ | |||
||1920: The first trans-Atlantic two-way radio broadcast was made. Source needed. | |||
||1923: Dennis Lindley born ... statistician, decision theorist, and academic. Lindley was a leading advocate of Bayesian statistics. Pic search. | |||
||1923: Edgar Gilbert born ... mathematician and theorist. He contributed to the understanding of the relation between molecular electronic structure and electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra during the period of 1955 through 1965. After that, he developed the technique of spin-labels, whereby electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra can be used to study the structure and kinetics of proteins and membranes. Pic: https://alchetron.com/Edgar-Gilbert | |||
||1924: Debabrata Basu born ... statistician who made fundamental contributions to the foundations of statistics. Pic. | |||
||1925: Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) is established. | |||
||1926: Ray Solomonoff born ... inventor of algorithmic probability, his General Theory of Inductive Inference (also known as Universal Inductive Inference), and was a founder of algorithmic information theory. He was an originator of the branch of artificial intelligence based on machine learning, prediction and probability. Pic: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/267090779_Ray_Solomonoff_and_the_New_Probability | |||
||1927: Gene Franklin born ... 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. | |||
||1934: The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt. | |||
||1941: Lt. Philip Dalton dies ... United States military scientist, pilot and engineer. Dalton is best known for his invention of several slide-rule analog flight computers, the most famous being the E6B. Pic uploaded. | |||
||1946: Operation Crossroads: An atomic bomb is detonated underwater in the lagoon of Bikini Atoll. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Crossroads Pic. | |||
||1959: Wolf Hirth dies ... German pilot and engineer, co-founded Schempp-Hirth. Pic (cool aero). | |||
||1965: Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music. | |||
||1969: Otto Dix dies ... painter and illustrator. Pic. | |||
||1969: Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war. | |||
||1973: Soviet Mars 5 space probe is launched. | |||
||1976: Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo. | |||
File:Viking orbiter.jpg|link=Viking 2 (nonfiction)|1976: Viking program: The [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] orbiter is turned off after returning almost 16,000 images in about 700–706 orbits around [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | |||
||1979: French nuclear weapons testing ... a test was conducted at half the usual depth because the nuclear device got stuck halfway down the 800 metre shaft. It was detonated and caused a large submarine landslide on the southwest rim of the atoll, causing a significant chunk of the outer slope of the atoll to break loose and causing a tsunami affecting Mururoa and injuring workers. The blast caused a 2 kilometre long and 40 cm wide crack to appear on the atoll. | |||
||1984: Salyut 7 cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk. | |||
||1987: Charles Stark Draper dies ... scientist and engineer, known as the "father of inertial navigation". He was the founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Instrumentation Laboratory, later renamed the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, which made the Apollo Moon landings possible through the Apollo Guidance Computer it designed for NASA. Pic search. | |||
||1993: Vincent Schaefer dies ... chemist and meteorologist who developed cloud seeding. On November 13, 1946, while a researcher at the General Electric Research Laboratory, Schaefer modified clouds in the Berkshire Mountains by seeding them with dry ice. Pic seach cool. | |||
||1995: Toru Kumon dies ... mathematician, academic, educator. Pic search. | |||
||2003: Ludwig Bölkow dies ... aero engineer ... Messer-262. Pic. | |||
||2008: Tracy Hall dies ... chemist and academic ... synth diamond. Pic search cool. | |||
||2008: Randy Pausch dies ... computer scientist and educator ... interface design. Pic. | |||
||2013: Hugh Huxley dies ... molecular biologist and academic ... made important discoveries in the physiology of muscle. Pic search. | |||
|| | File:Dennis_Paulson_of_Mars.jpg|link=Dennis Paulson of Mars|2017: ''[[Dennis Paulson of Mars]]'' observes a minute of silence in memory of the [[Viking 2 (nonfiction)|Viking 2]] orbiter, which was turned off forty-one years ago, after returning almost 16,000 images in about 700–706 orbits around [[Mars (nonfiction)|Mars]]. | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:21, 7 February 2022
1616: Physician, alchemist and chemist Andreas Libavius dies. He accepted the Paracelsian principle of using occult properties to explain phenomena with no apparent cause, but rejected the conclusion that a thing possessing these properties must have an astral connection to the divine.
1748: Astronomer Charles Messier's interest in astronomy is stimulated by an annular solar eclipse visible from his hometown.
1808: Mathematician Johann Benedict Listing born. He will introduce the term "topology", first in correspondence, then in a famous article published in 1847.
1837: The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated in London by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.
1842: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey dies. He was an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, and is often considered the first modern military surgeon.
1920: Chemist and X-ray crystallographer Rosalind Franklin born. She will make contributions to the discovery of the molecular structure of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid).
2017: Dennis Paulson of Mars observes a minute of silence in memory of the Viking 2 orbiter, which was turned off forty-one years ago, after returning almost 16,000 images in about 700–706 orbits around Mars.
