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File: | File:Marsilio Ficino from a fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio.jpg|link=Marsilio Ficino (nonfiction)|1499: Priest, humanist philosopher, and astrologer [[Marsilio Ficino (nonfiction)|Marsilio Ficino]] dies. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy. | ||
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File: | ||1507: Johannes Sturm born ... educator, influential in the design of the Gymnasium system of secondary education. Pic. | ||
||1567: Humanist scholar Pietro Carnesecchi is beheaded and then burned by order of Pope Pius V. Pic. | |||
||1648: In a letter to Samuel Hartlib, Sir Balthazar Gerbier sends a description of Pascal's mechanical calculator. Wikipedia describes Gerbier as "an Anglo-Dutch courtier, diplomat, art advisor, miniaturist and architectural designer." | |||
||1671: Luigi Guido Grandi born ... monk, mathematician, and engineer. Pic. | |||
||1768: Robert Simson dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | |||
||1838: Charles Tennant dies ... chemist and businessman. Pic. | |||
File:Charles_Cros.jpg|link=Charles Cros (nonfiction)|1842: Poet and inventor [[Charles Cros (nonfiction)|Charles Cros]] born. He will pioneer sound recording, inventing the Paleophone, and investigate the transmission of graphics by telegraph. | |||
||1854: The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing. | |||
||1858: Alois Negrelli dies ... engineer and railroad pioneer active in the Austrian Empire. Pic. | |||
||1868: Georg Bredig born ... physical chemist. Pic. | |||
File:Thomas Edison.jpg|link=Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by [[Thomas Edison (nonfiction)|Thomas Edison]]. | |||
||1888: Charles Jordan born ... magician. Pic search. | |||
||1894: Edgar Krahn born ... mathematician and academic. | |||
||1898: Béla Kerékjártó born ... mathematician who wrote numerous articles on topology. In 1921 he introduced his program with a talk "On topological fundamentals of analysis and geometry" where he advocated that "complex analysis should be built with instruments of topology without metric elements such as length and area." Pic. | |||
||1902: Burton Wadsworth Jones ... mathematician born ... known for his work on quadratic forms. Pic: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8729240/burton-wadsworth-jones | |||
||1904: Otto Robert Frisch born ... physicist and academic. Manhattan Project. Pic. | |||
||1905: John Robert Vernon Dolphin born ... engineer and inventor who joined the British Secret Intelligence Service and then became the Commanding Officer of the top secret Second World War Special Operations Executive (SOE) 'Station IX' where specialist military equipment was developed. During his time there his inventions included the Welman midget submarine and the Welbike Parachutists' Motorcycle. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q="John%2BRobert%2BVernon%2BDolphin" | |||
||1909: Hans Motz born ... pioneering work at Stanford University on undulators which led to the development of the wiggler and the free-electron laser. Pic: https://outlet.historicimages.com/products/rse34067 | |||
||1910: José Enrique Moyal born ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | |||
||1910: Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, killing 21. | |||
||1911: Wilhelm Dilthey dies ... historian, psychologist, sociologist, and hermeneutic philosopher. Pic. | |||
||1912: Kathleen Ollerenshaw born ... mathematician, astronomer, and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester. She contributed to the study of most-perfect pandiagonal magic squares. Pic. | |||
||1919: Philip Edward Bertrand Jourdain dies ... logician. He took a close interest in the paradoxes related to Russell's paradox, formulating the card paradox version of the liar paradox. Near the end of his life he became increasingly obsessed by trying to prove the axiom of choice, and published several incorrect proofs of it. Littlewood (1986, p.129) describes Jourdain on his deathbed still arguing with him about his (incorrect) proof of the axiom of choice. Pic: http://www.learn-math.info/mathematicians/historyDetail.htm?id=Jourdain | |||
||1921: Roger Godement born ... mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis as well as his expository books. Pic. | |||
||1924: John Edward Campbell dies ... a mathematician, best known for his contribution to the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff formula. Pic. | |||
File:Chiungtze C. Tsen 1932.jpg|link=Chiungtze C. Tsen (nonfiction)|1940: Mathematician [[Chiungtze C. Tsen (nonfiction)|Chiungtze C. Tsen]] dies. He proved Tsen's theorem, which states that a function field K of an algebraic curve over an algebraically closed field is quasi-algebraically closed (i.e., C1). | |||
||1946: Robert Ammann born ... was an amateur mathematician who made several significant and groundbreaking contributions to the theory of quasicrystals and aperiodic tilings. Pic. | |||
File:Dave_Arneson.png|link=Dave Arneson (nonfiction)|1947: Game designer [[Dave Arneson (nonfiction)|Dave Arneson]] born. He will co-create the pioneering role-playing game [[Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)|Dungeons & Dragons]] with Gary Gygax. | |||
||1958: NASA is created to replace NACA. | |||
||1961: The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization. | |||
||1969: Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time. | |||
||1971: The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London | |||
||1982: Friedrich Bachmann dies ... mathematician who specialized in geometry and group theory. PIc. | |||
||1990: John Stewart Bell dies ... physicist ... originator of Bell's theorem, an important theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden variable theories. Pic. | |||
File:Paul Lorenzen.jpg|link=Paul Lorenzen (nonfiction)|1994: Mathematician and philosopher [[Paul Lorenzen (nonfiction)|Paul Lorenzen]] dies. He was the founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz). | |||
||1996: Herbert Karl Johannes Seifert dies ... mathematician known for his work in topology. Pic. | |||
||1999: Clement Markert dies ... biologist credited with the discovery of isozymes (different forms of enzymes that catalyze the same reaction). Refused to testify before HUAC. Pic: https://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/0226899#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0&z=-2153.0367%2C1291.2491%2C7243.7893%2C4105.7099 | |||
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Latest revision as of 13:14, 7 February 2022
1499: Priest, humanist philosopher, and astrologer Marsilio Ficino dies. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, influenced the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.
1842: Poet and inventor Charles Cros born. He will pioneer sound recording, inventing the Paleophone, and investigate the transmission of graphics by telegraph.
1880: First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1940: Mathematician Chiungtze C. Tsen dies. He proved Tsen's theorem, which states that a function field K of an algebraic curve over an algebraically closed field is quasi-algebraically closed (i.e., C1).
1947: Game designer Dave Arneson born. He will co-create the pioneering role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons with Gary Gygax.
1994: Mathematician and philosopher Paul Lorenzen dies. He was the founder of the Erlangen School (with Wilhelm Kamlah) and inventor of game semantics (with Kuno Lorenz).