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||49 BC: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war. | ||49 BC: Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of civil war. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1520: Philosopher Jo Gwang-jo executed. He was framed with charges of factionalism by the power elite that opposed his reform measures and was sentenced to drink poison in the Third Literati Purge of 1519. Pic. | ||
||1654: Nicholas Culpeper dies ... botanist, physician, and astrologer. | ||1654: Nicholas Culpeper dies ... botanist, physician, and astrologer. He spent much of his life in outdoor catalogueing of hundreds of medicinal herbs. Pic. | ||
||1745: Isaac Titsingh born ... surgeon, scholar, and diplomat. | ||1715: Christian August Crusius born ... philosopher and theologian ... anti Liebniz. Pic. | ||
||1745: Isaac Titsingh born ... surgeon, scholar, and diplomat. No DOB. Pic search. | |||
File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1776: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] publishes his pamphlet ''Common Sense''. | File:Thomas Paine.jpg|link=Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|1776: [[Thomas Paine (nonfiction)|Thomas Paine]] publishes his pamphlet ''Common Sense''. | ||
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File:Carl von Linné.jpg|link=Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist [[Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|Carl Linnaeus]] dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy. | File:Carl von Linné.jpg|link=Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist [[Carl Linnaeus (nonfiction)|Carl Linnaeus]] dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy. | ||
||1802: Carl Ritter von Ghega born ... engineer, designed the Semmering railway. | ||1802: Carl Ritter von Ghega born ... engineer, designed the Semmering railway. Pic. | ||
||1833: Adrien-Marie Legendre dies ... mathematician and theorist. | ||1833: Adrien-Marie Legendre dies ... mathematician and theorist. Pic (striking caricature). | ||
||1842: Luigi Pigorini born ... palaeontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer. | ||1842: Luigi Pigorini born ... palaeontologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer. Pic. | ||
||1855: Ivan | ||1855: Ivan Simonov dies ... astronomer and a geodesist. Pic. | ||
File: | File:Samuel Colt.jpg|link=Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|1862: Engineer and businessman [[Samuel Colt (nonfiction)|Samuel Colt]] dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company. | ||
||1864: Nicholas Callan dies ... priest and physicist. Best known for his work on the induction coil. Pic. | |||
||1875: Issai Schur born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1875: Issai Schur born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||1877: Frederick Gardner Cottrell born ... physical chemist, inventor and philanthropist. | ||1877: Frederick Gardner Cottrell born ... physical chemist, inventor and philanthropist. | ||
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||1898: Katharine Burr Blodgett born ... physicist and engineer. | ||1898: Katharine Burr Blodgett born ... physicist and engineer. | ||
||1899: Szolem Mandelbrojt born ... mathematician who specialized in mathematical analysis. Pic. | |||
||1905: Ruth Moufang born ... mathematician. | ||1905: Ruth Moufang born ... mathematician. | ||
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||1911: Norman Heatley born ... biologist and chemist. | ||1911: Norman Heatley born ... biologist and chemist. | ||
||1916 | ||1916: Biochemist and academic Sune Bergström born. Bergström shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Bengt I. Samuelsson and John R. Vane in 1982, for discoveries concerning prostaglandins and related substances. Pic. | ||
||1916: Neal R. Amundson born ... chemical engineer and mathematician. Amundson was considered one of the most prominent chemical engineering educators and researchers in the United States. Pic. | ||1916: Neal R. Amundson born ... chemical engineer and mathematician. Amundson was considered one of the most prominent chemical engineering educators and researchers in the United States. Pic. | ||
||1918: Alexander | ||1918: Alexander Brudno born ... computer scientist, best known for fully describing the alpha-beta pruning algorithm. Pic. | ||
||1918: Res Jost born ... theoretical physicist, who worked mainly in constructive quantum field theory. | ||1918: Res Jost born ... theoretical physicist, who worked mainly in constructive quantum field theory. Pic. | ||
||1919: Wallace Clement Sabine dies ... physicist who founded the field of architectural acoustics. Pic. | ||1919: Wallace Clement Sabine dies ... physicist who founded the field of architectural acoustics. Pic. | ||
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||1927: Alfred George Greenhill dies ... mathematician. He he will be one of the world's leading experts on applications of elliptic integrals in electromagnetic theory. Pic: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_George_Greenhill | ||1927: Alfred George Greenhill dies ... mathematician. He he will be one of the world's leading experts on applications of elliptic integrals in electromagnetic theory. Pic: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_George_Greenhill | ||
||1927: Fritz Lang's futuristic film Metropolis is released in Germany. | ||1927: Fritz Lang's futuristic film ''Metropolis'' is released in Germany. | ||
File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1938: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] born. | File:Donald Knuth.jpg|link=Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|1938: Computer scientist and mathematician [[Donald Knuth (nonfiction)|Donald Knuth]] born. Knuth will contribute to the development of rigorous, systematic analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms. | ||
||1941: Issai Schur dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||1941: Issai Schur dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]], bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals. | File:Project Diana antenna.jpg|link=Project Diana (nonfiction)|1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts [[Project Diana (nonfiction)|Project Diana]], bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals. | ||
||1951: Yoshio Nishina dies ... physicist and academic. | ||1951: Yoshio Nishina dies ... physicist and academic. Pic (cool tech). | ||
||1961: Dashiell Hammett dies ... detective novelist and screenwriter. | ||1961: Dashiell Hammett dies ... detective novelist and screenwriter. | ||
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||1989: Valentin Petrovich Glushko dies ... rocket scientist who was a pioneer developer of rocket engines (1946-74). From 1929, he worked in Leningrad in GDL - the Gas Dynamics Laboratory, the military rocket research organization, founded in 1921. He worked with renowned rocket designer Sergey Korolyov (1932-1966). In Aug 1957, they successfully launched the first intercontinental ballistic missile and in October of the same year, sent the first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, into orbit. He became chief designer for the Soviet space program in 1974, helping to oversee development of the Mir space station. During his life, he designed the most succesessful rocket engines in the Soviet space program. Pic. | ||1989: Valentin Petrovich Glushko dies ... rocket scientist who was a pioneer developer of rocket engines (1946-74). From 1929, he worked in Leningrad in GDL - the Gas Dynamics Laboratory, the military rocket research organization, founded in 1921. He worked with renowned rocket designer Sergey Korolyov (1932-1966). In Aug 1957, they successfully launched the first intercontinental ballistic missile and in October of the same year, sent the first artificial satellite, Sputnik I, into orbit. He became chief designer for the Soviet space program in 1974, helping to oversee development of the Mir space station. During his life, he designed the most succesessful rocket engines in the Soviet space program. Pic. | ||
||1997: Alexander R. Todd dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1996: Louis W. Tordella dies ... the longest serving deputy director of the National Security Agency. Pic. | ||
||1997: Alexander R. Todd dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | |||
||2010: Henry Berge Helson dies ... mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley who worked on analysis. Pic. | ||2010: Henry Berge Helson dies ... mathematician at the University of California at Berkeley who worked on analysis. Pic. | ||
|| | ||2010: Metallurgist, educator and administrator Patcha Ramachandra Tao born. Pic. | ||
||2010: Oscar Sala dies ... nuclear physicist and academic. He will be a leading figure in Brazilian scientific research. Pic search tech. | |||
||2012: Gevork Vartanian dies... Russian intelligence agent. He was primarily responsible for thwarting Operation Long Jump, concocted by Adolf Hitler, headed by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and led by Otto Skorzeny, which was an attempt to assassinate Stalin, Churchill, and Roosevelt at the Tehran conference in 1943. Pic. | |||
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Latest revision as of 17:58, 7 February 2022
1776: Thomas Paine publishes his pamphlet Common Sense.
1778: Botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus dies. He formalized the binomial nomenclature system of taxonomy.
1862: Engineer and businessman Samuel Colt dies. He founded Colt's Manufacturing Company.
1938: Computer scientist and mathematician Donald Knuth born. Knuth will contribute to the development of rigorous, systematic analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms.
1946: The United States Army Signal Corps successfully conducts Project Diana, bouncing radio waves off the Moon and receiving the reflected signals.