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||1565 – Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish astronomer and theologian (d. 1646)
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||1695 – John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (d. 1771)
File:Laurentius Paulinus Gothius.jpg|link=Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (nonfiction)|1565: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Archbishop of Uppsala [[Laurentius Paulinus Gothus (nonfiction)|Laurentius Paulinus Gothus]] born.
 
||1695: John Bevis born ... physician and astronomer, Uranographia.  Pic: star chart.


File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".
File:William Hogarth.jpg|link=William Hogarth (nonfiction)|1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic [[William Hogarth (nonfiction)|William Hogarth]] born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".


||1764 – Andrés Manuel del Rio, Spanish-Mexican scientist and discoverer of vanadium (d. 1849)
||1764: Andrés Manuel del Rio born ... scientist and discoverer of vanadium. Pic.


||1801 – Samuel Gridley Howe, American physician and activist (d. 1876) Abolitionist
||1801: Samuel Gridley Howe born ... physician and activist ... Abolitionist. Pic.


||1810 – George Jennings, English plumber and engineer, invented the flush toilet (d. 1882)
||1810: George Jennings born ... plumber and engineer, invented the flush toilet. Pic: http://thevictorianist.blogspot.com/2011/02/spending-penny-or-first-public-flushing.html


||Elwin Bruno Christoffel (b. November 10, 1829) was a German mathematician and physicist. He introduced fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which would later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.
File:Elwin_Bruno_Christoffel.jpg|link=Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|1829: Mathematician and physicist [[Elwin Bruno Christoffel (nonfiction)|Elwin Bruno Christoffel]] born. He will introduce fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which will later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.


||Amos Emerson Dolbear (b. November 10, 1837) was an American physicist and inventor. Dolbear researched electrical spark conversion into sound waves and electrical impulses. Pic.
||1832: Johann Spurzheim dies ... physician and leading phrenologist. Pic.


||1887 – Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Romanian engineer and academic (d. 1973)
||1837: Amos Emerson Dolbear born ... physicist and inventor. Dolbear researched electrical spark conversion into sound waves and electrical impulses. Pic.


||1888 – Andrei Tupolev, Russian engineer and designer, founded the Tupolev Company (d. 1972)
||1852: Gideon Mantell dies ... obstetrician, geologist and palaeontologist. His attempts to reconstruct the structure and life of Iguanodon began the scientific study of dinosaurs: in 1822 he was responsible for the discovery (and the eventual identification) of the first fossil teeth, and later much of the skeleton, of Iguanodon. Pic.


||Ernst Paul Heinz Pruefer (b. 10 November 1896) was a German Jewish mathematician born in Wilhelmshaven. His major contributions were on abelian groups, algebraic numbers, knot theory and Sturm–Liouville theory. Pic.
||1864: Simon Ritter von Stampfer dies ... Austrian mathematician, surveyor and inventor. His most famous invention is that of the stroboscopic disk which has a claim to be the first device to show moving images. Pic.


||1918 – Ernst Otto Fischer, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2007)
||1887: Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu born ... engineer and academic. Pic.


||1919 – Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and engineer, designed the AK-47 (d. 2013)
||1888: Andrei Tupolev born ... engineer and designer, founded the Tupolev Company. Pic.


||1923 – Hachikō, Japanese dog famous for his loyalty to his owner (d. 1935)
||1896: Ernst Paul Heinz Pruefer born ... mathematician born in Wilhelmshaven. His major contributions were on abelian groups, algebraic numbers, knot theory and Sturm–Liouville theory. Pic.


||1933 – Ronald Evans, American captain, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1990)
||1918: Ernst Otto Fischer born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=ernst+otto+fischer


||1934 – A. Thurairajah, Sri Lankan engineer and academic (d. 1994)
||1919: Mikhail Kalashnikov born ... general and engineer, designed the AK-47. Pic.


||1935 – Bernard Babior, American physician and biochemist (d. 2004)
||1923: Hachikō born ... Japanese dog famous for his loyalty to his owner.


||1935 – Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov, Russian astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist
||1933: Ronald Evans born ... captain, engineer, and astronaut.


||1944 – The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
||1934: A. Thurairajah born ... engineer and academic.


||1951 – With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
||1935: Bernard Babior born ... physician and biochemist.


||1958 – The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
||1935: Igor Dmitriyevich Novikov born ... astronomer, astrophysicist, and cosmologist (alive September 2018).
 
||1944: The ammunition ship USS ''Mount Hood'' explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
 
||1951: With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
 
||1954: Édouard Le Roy dies ... mathematician and philosopher. Le Roy especially interested himself to the relations between science and morality. Along with Henri Poincaré and Pierre Duhem, he supported a conventionalist thesis on the foundation of mathematics.  Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=édouard+le+roy&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS702US702&oq=Édouard+Le+Roy
 
||1958: The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.


File:Klara Dan von Neumann.png|link=Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|1963: Computer scientist [[Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|Klara Dan von Neumann]] dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.
File:Klara Dan von Neumann.png|link=Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|1963: Computer scientist [[Klara Dan von Neumann (nonfiction)|Klara Dan von Neumann]] dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.


||1979 – A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
||1979: A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
 
||1988: Mathematician Otto Haupt dies. Pic.
 
||1990: Mário Schenberg dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
 
||1994: William Higinbotham dies ... physicist, member of the team that developed the first nuclear bomb, he later became a leader in the nonproliferation movement.  Also: video game designer. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=william+higinbotham
 
||1998: Jean Leray dies ... mathematician, who worked on both partial differential equations and algebraic topology. Pic.


||1990 – Mário Schenberg, Brazilian physicist and academic (b. 1914)
||2001: Carl-Gustav Esseen dies ... mathematician. His work was in the theory of probability. The Berry–Esseen theorem is named after him. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Carl-Gustav+Esseen


||Carl-Gustav Esseen (d. 10 November 2001) was a Swedish mathematician. His work was in the theory of probability. The Berry–Esseen theorem is named after him.
File:Hans Hermes.jpg|link=Hans Hermes (nonfiction)|2003: Mathematician and logician [[Hans Hermes (nonfiction)|Hans Hermes]] dies. Hermes contributed to the foundations of mathematical logic; he was also a pioneer of the Turing machine as the central concept of predictability.


||2006 – Fokko du Cloux, Dutch mathematician and computer scientist (b. 1954)
||2006: Fokko du Cloux dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. He worked on the Atlas of Lie groups and representations until his death. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=fokko+du+cloux


||2008 – Kiyosi Itô, Japanese mathematician and academic (b. 1915)
||2008: Kiyosi Itô dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||2008 – Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.
||2008: Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.


||Klaus Friedrich Roth (d. 10 November 2015) was a German-born British mathematician known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution.
||2015: Klaus Roth dies ... mathematician known for work on diophantine approximation, the large sieve, and irregularities of distribution. Pic.


||2015 – Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, physicist, and engineer, founded the Amdahl Corporation (b. 1922)
||2015: Gene Amdahl dies ... computer scientist, physicist, and engineer, founded the Amdahl Corporation. Pic.


|File:Nysa_on_Maeander_Library_Upgrade.jpg|link=Nysa on the Maeander|[[Nysa on the Maeander]] seeks upgrade to full [[transdimensional corporation]].
|File:Pika-computational-activity.jpg|link=The Pika|[[The Pika]] hired for upgrade of [[Nysa on the Maeander]].
|File:Bourbaki_virages_dangereux_fruiting_body.jpg|link=Outsider mathematics|''[[Outsider mathematics|Bourbaki virages dangereux]]'' grown in [[Nysa on the Maeander]] for the first time.
|File:Brownian ratchet.png|link=Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|New form of [[Brownian ratchet (nonfiction)|Brownian ratchet]] discovered.
|File:Alistair Treadgold 1916.jpg|link=Alistair Treadgold|[[Alistair Treadgold]]'s patents new instruments for [[musical electoplating ensembles]].
|File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1961: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[Musical electroplating ensemble (nonfiction)|musical electroplating ensemble]], performs new work based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]].
|File:Alberta sulfur pyramids.jpg|link=Alberta sulphur pyramids (nonfiction)|[[Alberta sulphur pyramids (nonfiction)|Alberta sulfur pyramids]] enjoys fame as eco-tourism destination.
|File:Poicephalus senegalus egg tooth.jpg|link=Egg tooth (nonfiction)|Baby bird with [[egg tooth (nonfiction)|egg tooth]] is adorable and menacing at the same time.
|File:Halobaena caerulea in flight - SE Tasmania.jpg|link=Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|[[Stomach Oil Exporting Petrels|SOEP cartel]] threatens to shoot [[Stomach oil (nonfiction)|stomach oil smugglers]] on sight.
|File:Black_hellebore.jpg|link=Hellebore (nonfiction)|[[Hellebore (nonfiction)|Black hellebore]] in black mood today.
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Latest revision as of 15:24, 7 February 2022

  • 1565: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Archbishop of Uppsala Laurentius Paulinus Gothus born.

    1565: Theologian, astronomer, astrologer, and Archbishop of Uppsala Laurentius Paulinus Gothus born.

  • 1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".

    1697: Satirist, painter, illustrator, and critic William Hogarth born. His work will range from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects".

  • 1829: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel born. He will introduce fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which will later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.

    1829: Mathematician and physicist Elwin Bruno Christoffel born. He will introduce fundamental concepts of differential geometry, opening the way for the development of tensor calculus, which will later provide the mathematical basis for general relativity.

  • 1963: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.

    1963: Computer scientist Klara Dan von Neumann dies. She was one of the world's first computer programmers and coders, solving mathematical problems using computer code.

  • 2003: Mathematician and logician Hans Hermes dies. Hermes contributed to the foundations of mathematical logic; he was also a pioneer of the Turing machine as the central concept of predictability.

    2003: Mathematician and logician Hans Hermes dies. Hermes contributed to the foundations of mathematical logic; he was also a pioneer of the Turing machine as the central concept of predictability.

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