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||1570 – The first atlas, Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, is published with 70 maps.
||1570: The first atlas, ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'', is published with 70 maps. ???


File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.


||1666 – Gaspar Schott, German physicist and mathematician (b. 1608)
||1666: Gaspar Schott dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic: sketch by Schott of Magdeburg spheres. Pic search.


||1783 – William Sturgeon, English physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor (d. 1850)
||1783: William Sturgeon born ... physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor. Pic.


||1804 – The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri.
||1803: Chemist Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann born.  He patented the reaction for converting ammonia to nitric acid, which was later used in the Ostwald process. Pic.


||1849 – Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent.
||1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri.


||1856 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery.
||1849: Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent. Pic.


File:Franz Ernst Neumann by Carl Steffeck 1886.jpg|link=Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|1895: Mineralogist, physicist, and mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Franz Ernst Neumann (nonfiction)|Franz Ernst Neumann]] uses what is now known as Neumann's Law (the molecular heat of a compound is equal to the sum of the atomic heats of its constituents) to detect and prevent [[crimes against chemistry]].
||1856: Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery.


||1868 – Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1801)
||1859: Arthur Conan Doyle born ... writer. Pic.


||Bertha Swirles, Lady Jeffreys (b. 22 May 1903) was a British physicist who carried out research on quantum theory.
||1967: Josip Plemelj dies ... mathematician, whose main contributions were to the theory of analytic functions and the application of integral equations to potential theory. Pic.


||1904 – Uno Lamm, Swedish electrical engineer and inventor (d. 1989)
||1868: Julius Plücker dies ... mathematician and physicist. Pic.


||1905 – Bodo von Borries, German physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope (d. 1956)
File:Georg Scheutz.jpg|link=Per Georg Scheutz (nonfiction)|1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor [[Per Georg Scheutz (nonfiction)|Per Georg Scheutz]] born.  He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.


||1906 – The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
||1893: Bronisław Knaster born ... mathematician. He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum. Pic.


||1912 – Herbert C. Brown, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
||1895: Isaac Peral dies ... engineer, naval officer and designer of the Peral Submarine. He joined the Spanish navy in 1866, and developed the first electric-powered submarine which was launched in 1888, but it was not accepted by the naval authorities. He then left the navy to develop other inventions commercially. Pic.


||1920 – Thomas Gold, Austrian-American astrophysicist and academic (d. 2004)
||1900: Herbert Alois Wagner born ... scientist who developed numerous innovations in the fields of aerodynamics, aircraft structures and guided weapons. He is most famous for Wagner's function describing unsteady lift on wings and developing the Henschel Hs 293 glide bomb. Pic.


||1927 – George Andrew Olah, Hungarian-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2017)
||1903: Physicist and academic Bertha Swirles born ... carried out research on quantum theory. Pic.


||Chen Jingrun (b. May 22, 1933) was a Chinese mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory.
||1904: Uno Lamm born ... electrical engineer and inventor ... sometimes called "The Father of High Voltage Direct Current" power transmission. Pic search.


||1936 – George H. Heilmeier, American engineer (d. 2014) LCD
||1905: Bodo von Borries born ... physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope. Pic search.


||1942 – Ted Kaczynski, American academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber)
||1906: The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".


||1943 – Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern.
||1911: Anatol Rapoport born ... mathematical psychologist. He contributed to the mathematical modeling of social interaction and stochastic models of contagion. Pic.
 
||1912: Herbert C. Brown born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate for his work with organobromanes. Pic.
 
||1914: Lipman Bers born ... mathematician ... he created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. Pic: http://www.eilatgordinlevitan.com/riga/riga_pages/riga_stories_bers.html
 
||1916: Albrecht Fröhlich born ... mathematician famous for his major results and conjectures on Galois module theory in the Galois structure of rings of integers. Pic: https://opc.mfo.de/detail?photo_id=9239&would_like_to_publish=1
 
||1920: Thomas Gold born ... astrophysicist and academic. Pic.
 
||1927: George Andrew Olah born ... chemist and academic ... His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry." Pic.
 
||1929: Mathematician André Haefliger born - he worked primarily on topology.
 
File:Rabbi Dr. Eliezer (Leon) Ehrenpreis.jpg|link=Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi [[Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis]] born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.
 
||1933: Chen Jingrun born ... mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory. Pic.
 
||1936: George H. Heilmeier born ... engineer ... LCD. Pic.
 
||1942: Ted Kaczynski born ... academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber). Pic.
 
||1943: Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern. Pic.


File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.
File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.


||Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel (d. 22 May 1956) was a German physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect.  
||1947: Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos born ... astronomer and astrophysicist. Pic search book cover.
 
||1956: Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel dies ... physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect. Pic.
 
||1968: The nuclear-powered submarine the USS ''Scorpion'' sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores.


||1968 – The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores.
||1969: Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.


||1969 – Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface.
||1974: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz dies ... mathematician and aerospace engineer. Pic.


||1974 – Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer (b. 1903)
||1983: Albert Claude dies ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1983 – Albert Claude, Belgian biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
||1991: Derrick Henry Lehmer dies ... mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer's peripatetic career as a number theorist, with he and his wife taking numerous types of work in the United States and abroad to support themselves during the Great Depression, fortuitously brought him into the center of research into early electronic computing. Pic.


||Derrick Henry Lehmer (d. May 22, 1991) was an American mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer's peripatetic career as a number theorist, with he and his wife taking numerous types of work in the United States and abroad to support themselves during the Great Depression, fortuitously brought him into the center of research into early electronic computing. Pic.
File:Myrtle_Bachelder_-_1942.jpg|link=Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|1997: Chemist and US military officer [[Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|Myrtle Bachelder]] dies. Bachelder was responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder made pioneering contributions to metallochemistry.


||1997 – Alfred Hershey, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
||1997: Alfred Hershey born ... biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1998 – José Enrique Moyal, Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1910)
||1998: José Enrique Moyal dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic.


File:Martin Gardner.jpg|link=Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematics and science writer [[Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|Martin Gardner]] dies.  His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.
File:Martin Gardner.jpg|link=Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematics and science writer [[Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|Martin Gardner]] dies.  His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.
File:Self portrait (22 May 2024) 20240522_200220.jpg|link=Self portrait (22 May 2024)|2024: '''[[Self portrait (22 May 2024)|Self portrait]]'''.
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  • 1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.

    1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.

  • 1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.

    1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.

  • 1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.

    1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.

  • 1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.

    1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.

  • 1997: Chemist and US military officer Myrtle Bachelder dies. Bachelder was responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder made pioneering contributions to metallochemistry.

    1997: Chemist and US military officer Myrtle Bachelder dies. Bachelder was responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder made pioneering contributions to metallochemistry.

  • 2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.

    2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.

  • 2024: Self portrait.

    2024: Self portrait.

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