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File:Galileo by Leoni.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] born. He will be called the "father of modern physics".
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File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Galileo by Leoni.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician [[Galileo Galilei (nonfiction)|Galileo Galilei]] born. He will be called the "father of modern physics."


||Eustachio Manfredi (d. 1739) was an Italian mathematician, astronomer and poet.
File:Galileo Galilei.jpg|link=Galileo Galilei|1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter [[Galileo Galilei]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] techniques to defeat the [[Forbidden Ratio]] in single combat.


||François Dominique Séraphin (b. 1747) was a French entertainer who developed and popularised shadow plays in France. The art form would go on to be copied across Europe.
||1676: Newton wrote Hooke: "What DesCartes did was a good step....If I have seen further it is by standing on ye sholders of Giants." *VFR ... The letter is at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/02/on-this-day-in-math-february-5.html
 
File:Eustachio_Manfredi.jpg|link=Eustachio Manfredi (nonfiction)|1739: Mathematician, astronomer and poet [[Eustachio Manfredi (nonfiction)|Eustachio Manfredi]] dies. Manfredi's observations of asteroids provided early evidence, albeit unsought, of the revolution of the Earth around the Sun.
 
||1747: François Dominique Séraphin born ... entertainer who developed and popularized shadow plays in France. The art form would go on to be copied across Europe. Pic search.


||1825: Naval engineer Gustave Zédé born.  He will be a pioneering designer of submarines. Pic.
||1825: Naval engineer Gustave Zédé born.  He will be a pioneering designer of submarines. Pic.


||Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen (b. 15 February 1839) was a Danish mathematician. He is known for work on the enumerative geometry of conic sections, algebraic surfaces, and history of mathematics.
||1826: George Johnstone Stoney born ... physicist. He is most famous for introducing the term electron as the "fundamental unit quantity of electricity". Pic.
 
||1834: William Henry Preece born ... electrical engineer and inventor.  He will be a major figure in the development and introduction of wireless telegraphy and the telephone in Great Britain. Pic.


||Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer (b. 15 February 1839) was a German mathematician. He did research on differential equations, the calculus of variations and mechanics. Pic.  
||1839: Hieronymus Georg Zeuthen born ... mathematician. He is known for work on the enumerative geometry of conic sections, algebraic surfaces, and history of mathematics. Pic.


||1847 – Germinal Pierre Dandelin, Belgian mathematician and engineer (b. 1794)
||1839: Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer born ... mathematician. He did research on differential equations, the calculus of variations and mechanics. Pic.  


||1849 – Rickman Godlee, English surgeon and academic (d. 1925) brain surgery
||1847: Germinal Pierre Dandelin dies ... mathematician and engineer. Pic.


||1849 – Pierre François Verhulst, Belgian mathematician and theorist (b. 1804)
||1849: Rickman Godlee born ... surgeon and academic ... brain surgery.


||1850 – Sophie Bryant, Irish mathematician, academic and activist (d. 1922)
||1849: Pierre François Verhulst dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic.


||1851 – Spiru Haret, Romanian mathematician, astronomer, and politician, 55th Romanian Minister of Internal Affairs (d. 1912)
||1850: Sophie Bryant born ... mathematician, academic and activist.


||1861 – Charles Édouard Guillaume, Swiss-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1938)
||1851: Spiru Haret born ... mathematician, astronomer, and politician, 55th Romanian Minister of Internal Affairs.
 
||1856: Emil Kraepelin born ... psychiatrist ... a founder of modern scientific psychiatry, psychopharmacology and psychiatric genetics. Pic.
 
||1861: Charles Édouard Guillaume born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1861: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] born. He will be a  defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
File:Alfred North Whitehead.jpg|link=Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|1861: Mathematician and philosopher [[Alfred North Whitehead (nonfiction)|Alfred North Whitehead]] born. He will be a  defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.


File:John Venn computing diagram.jpg|link=John Venn (nonfiction)|1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter [[John Venn]] invents new type of [[Cellular automaton (nonfiction)|cellular automata]].
||1871: Martin Hans Christian Knudsen born ... physicist who taught and conducted research at the Technical University of Denmark. He is primarily known for his study of molecular gas flow and the development of the Knudsen cell, which is a primary component of molecular beam epitaxy systems. Pic.


||1873 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-Swiss biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
||1873: Hans von Euler-Chelpin born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||Paul Koebe (b. 15 February 1882) was a 20th-century German mathematician. His work dealt exclusively with the complex numbers, his most important results being on the uniformization of Riemann surfaces in a series of four papers in 1907–1909.
||1882: Paul Koebe born. His work dealt exclusively with the complex numbers, his most important results being on the uniformization of Riemann surfaces in a series of four papers in 1907–1909. Pic.


||1898 – The battleship USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
||1889: Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen dies ... geologist and academic. He studied the coal-formation of Westphalia and northern Europe generally, and contributed to the theory and practice of mining and metallurgical works in Rhenish Prussia. Pic.


||Frederick Vinton Hunt (b. February 15, 1905) was an inventor, a scientist and a professor at Harvard University who worked in the field of acoustic engineering. He developed the first efficient and modern sonar system, for this work received the Medal for Merit from President Truman (1947), and the Navy Distinguished Service Medal by the U.S. Navy in 1970. Pic.
||1898: The battleship USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.


||1913 – Erich Eliskases, Austrian chess player (d. 1997)
||1900: Charles Allen Thomas born ... American chemist and businessman, and an important figure in the Manhattan Project.  Pic.


||Alexander Andreevich Samarskii (b. 19 February 1919) was a Soviet and Russian mathematician and academician specializing in mathematical physics, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, and finite difference methods. Pic.
||1905: Frederick Vinton Hunt born ... was an inventor, a scientist and a professor at Harvard University who worked in the field of acoustic engineering. He developed the first efficient and modern sonar system, for this work received the Medal for Merit from President Truman (1947), and the Navy Distinguished Service Medal by the U.S. Navy in 1970. Pic.


||Bjarni Jónsson (b. February 15, 1920) was an Icelandic mathematician and logician working in universal algebra, lattice theory, model theory and set theory. Pic.
||1913: Erich Eliskases born ... chess player.


||Herman Kahn (b. February 15, 1922) was a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. Herman Kahn (February 15, 1922 – July 7, 1983) was a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation. He became known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability, making him one of three historical inspirations for the title character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire Dr. Strangelove.
||1919: Alexander Andreevich Samarskii born ... mathematician and academician specializing in mathematical physics, applied mathematics, numerical analysis, mathematical modeling, and finite difference methods. Pic.


||1925 – The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska.
||1920: Bjarni Jónsson born ... mathematician and logician working in universal algebra, lattice theory, model theory and set theory. Pic.


||1933 – Pat Sullivan, Australian animator and producer, co-created Felix the Cat (b. 1887)
||1922: Herman Kahn born ... a founder of the Hudson Institute and one of the preeminent futurists of the latter part of the twentieth century. He originally came to prominence as a military strategist and systems theorist while employed at the RAND Corporation. He became known for analyzing the likely consequences of nuclear war and recommending ways to improve survivability, making him one of three historical inspirations for the title character of Stanley Kubrick's classic black comedy film satire Dr. Strangelove. Pic.


||1933 – In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.
||1925: The 1925 serum run to Nome: The second delivery of serum arrives in Nome, Alaska.


||File:Reddy Kilowatt US patent picture 1933.jpg|link=Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|1933: [[Reddy Kilowatt (nonfiction)|Ready Kilowatt]] performs in off-Broadway adaption of ''[[Reddy Kilowatt Versus the Travelling Salesman Problem]]''.
||1931: Lillian Leitzel born ... acrobat and strongwoman. Pic.


||Otto Toeplitz (d. 15 February 1940) was a German mathematician working in functional analysis.
||1933: Pat Sullivan dies ... animator and producer, co-created Felix the Cat.


||1946 – ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
||1933: In Miami, Giuseppe Zangara attempts to assassinate US President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, but instead shoots Chicago mayor Anton J. Cermak, who dies of his wounds on March 6, 1933.


||1949 – Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
||1963: Shoucheng Zhang born ... physicist and academic ... condensed matter theorist known for his work on topological insulators, the quantum Hall effect, the quantum spin Hall effect, spintronics, and high-temperature superconductivity. Pic.  


||1954 – Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
||1940: Otto Toeplitz born ... mathematician working in functional analysis. Pic.
 
||1944: Aleksandr Serebrov born ... engineer and cosmonaut. Pic: postage stamp.
 
File:ENIAC.jpg|link=ENIAC (nonfiction)|1946: [[ENIAC (nonfiction)|ENIAC]], the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
 
||1949: Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
 
||1954: Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.


File:Owen Richardson.jpg|link=Owen Willans Richardson (nonfiction)|1959: Physicist and academic [[Owen Willans Richardson (nonfiction)|Owen Willans Richardson]] dies. He won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
File:Owen Richardson.jpg|link=Owen Willans Richardson (nonfiction)|1959: Physicist and academic [[Owen Willans Richardson (nonfiction)|Owen Willans Richardson]] dies. He won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.


||1972 – Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.
||19664: Sodium Reactor Experiment ceases official operation. Pic.
 
||1972: Sound recordings are granted U.S. federal copyright protection for the first time.


||Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander (d. 15 February 1974), known as Hugh Alexander and C. H. O'D. Alexander as a pen name, was an Irish-born British cryptanalyst, chess player, and chess writer. He worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and was later the head of the cryptanalysis division at GCHQ for 25 years. Pic.
||1974: Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander dies ... cryptanalyst, chess player, and chess writer. He worked on the German Enigma machine at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, and was later the head of the cryptanalysis division at GCHQ for 25 years. Pic.


File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1988:  Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.
File:Richard Feynman.jpg|link=Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|1988:  Theoretical physicist and academic [[Richard Feynman (nonfiction)|Richard Feynman]] dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.


||1996 – At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
||1996: At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
 
||1999: Henry Way Kendall dies ... physicist and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate.
 
||2001: The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
 
||2009: Kazuhiko Nishijima dies ... physicist who made significant contributions to particle physics. Pic.


||1999 – Henry Way Kendall, American physicist and mountaineer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1926)
||2012: Cyril Domb dies ... physicist and academic.


||2001 – The first draft of the complete human genome is published in Nature.
File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2011: The [[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]] spacecraft flies by comet Tempel 1.


||Kazuhiko Nishijima (d. 15 February 2009) was a Japanese physicist who made significant contributions to particle physics. Pic.
||2013: A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.  


||2012 – Cyril Domb, English-Israel physicist and academic (b. 1920)
||2013: The Chelyabinsk meteorite (Russian: Челябинск or Челябинский метеорит) is the fragmented remains of the large Chelyabinsk meteor of 15 February 2013 which reached the ground after the meteor's passage through the atmosphere. The descent of the meteor, visible as a brilliant superbolide in the morning sky, caused a series of shock waves that shattered windows, damaged approximately 7,200 buildings and left 1,500 people injured. The resulting fragments were scattered over a wide area. Pic.


File:Stardust at comet Wild 2.jpg|link=Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|2011: The [[Stardust (spacecraft) (nonfiction)|Stardust]] spacecraft files by comet Tempel 1.
||2013: Asteroid 367943 Duende passed at a record distance of 27,700 km (17,200 mi) or 4.3 Earth radii from Earth's surface.[4] Due to its close passage, the orbit of the former Apollo asteroid was significantly perturbed. Duende's passage also coincided with the completely unrelated Chelyabinsk meteor, which entered Earth's atmosphere above Russia just 16 hours earlier.  ... a micro-asteroid and a near-Earth object of the Aten and Atira group, approximately 30 meters (98 ft) in diameter. It was discovered by astronomers of the Astronomical Observatory of Mallorca at its robotic La Sagra Observatory in 2012, and named for the duende, a goblin-like creature from Iberian and Filipino mythology and folklore. Duende is likely an uncommon L-type asteroid and significantly elongated. Pic.


||2013 – A meteor explodes over Russia, injuring 1,500 people as a shock wave blows out windows and rocks buildings. This happens unexpectedly only hours before the expected closest ever approach of the larger and unrelated asteroid 2012 DA14.
||2014: Thelma Estrin dies ... computer scientist and engineer. Pic.


||2014 – Thelma Estrin, American computer scientist and engineer (b. 1924)
||2016: Wang Xuan dies ... computer scientist and academic,  innovator of the Chinese printing industry. Pic search.


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  • 1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics."

    1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics."

  • 1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to defeat the Forbidden Ratio in single combat.

    1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to defeat the Forbidden Ratio in single combat.

  • 1739: Mathematician, astronomer and poet Eustachio Manfredi dies. Manfredi's observations of asteroids provided early evidence, albeit unsought, of the revolution of the Earth around the Sun.

    1739: Mathematician, astronomer and poet Eustachio Manfredi dies. Manfredi's observations of asteroids provided early evidence, albeit unsought, of the revolution of the Earth around the Sun.

  • 1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.

    1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.

  • 1946: ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

    1946: ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

  • 1959: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson dies. He won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.

    1959: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson dies. He won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.

  • 1988: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.

    1988: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.

  • 2011: The Stardust spacecraft flies by comet Tempel 1.

    2011: The Stardust spacecraft flies by comet Tempel 1.

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