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||1520: An expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Strait of Magellan. | ||1514: Hartmann Schedel dies ... physician, humanist, historian, and one of the first cartographers to use the printing press. Pic: illustration. | ||
||1520: An expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Strait of Magellan. Pic. | |||
||1660: At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society. | ||1660: At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society. | ||
File:Athanasius_Kircher.jpg|link=Athanasius Kircher (nonfiction)|1680: Scholar and polymath [[Athanasius Kircher (nonfiction)|Athanasius Kircher]] dies. He published some 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine. | |||
||1682: Valentine Greatrakes dies ... faith healer who toured England in 1666, claiming to cure people by the laying on of hands. Pic. | ||1682: Valentine Greatrakes dies ... faith healer who toured England in 1666, claiming to cure people by the laying on of hands. Pic. | ||
||1700: Nathaniel Bliss born ... astronomer and mathematician. | ||1700: Nathaniel Bliss born ... astronomer and mathematician. Pic. | ||
File: | File:William Blake by John Flaxman c1804.jpg|link=William Blake (nonfiction)|1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker [[William Blake (nonfiction)|William Blake]] born. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake will later be considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Although Blake will be considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he will be held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. | ||
||1772: Luke Howard born ... chemist and meteorologist. | ||1772: Luke Howard born ... chemist and meteorologist. His lasting contribution to science is a nomenclature system for clouds, which he proposed in an 1802 presentation to the Askesian Society. Pic. | ||
||1810: William Froude born ... engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect. He was the first to formulate reliable laws for the resistance that water offers to ships (such as the hull speed equation) and for predicting their stability. Pic. | ||1810: William Froude born ... engineer, hydrodynamicist and naval architect. He was the first to formulate reliable laws for the resistance that water offers to ships (such as the hull speed equation) and for predicting their stability. Pic. | ||
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||1814: The Times of London becomes the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press, built by the German team of Koenig & Bauer. | ||1814: The Times of London becomes the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press, built by the German team of Koenig & Bauer. | ||
||1821: Samuel Vince dies ... clergyman, mathematician and astronomer at the University of Cambridge. | ||1821: Samuel Vince dies ... clergyman, mathematician and astronomer at the University of Cambridge. Pic. | ||
||1837: John Wesley Hyatt born ... engineer. | ||1837: John Wesley Hyatt born ... engineer. He simplied the production of celluloid, the first industrial plastic. Pic. | ||
||1858: William Stanley Jr. born ... physicist born in Brooklyn, New York. In his career, he obtained 129 patents covering a variety of electric devices. In 1913, he patented an all-steel vacuum bottle, and formed the Stanley Bottle Company. Pic. | ||1858: William Stanley Jr. born ... physicist born in Brooklyn, New York. In his career, he obtained 129 patents covering a variety of electric devices. In 1913, he patented an all-steel vacuum bottle, and formed the Stanley Bottle Company. Pic. | ||
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||1863: Arthur Gordon Webster born ... physicist, was a founder and president of the American Physical Society. Pic. | ||1863: Arthur Gordon Webster born ... physicist, was a founder and president of the American Physical Society. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1873: Caterina Scarpellini dies ... astronomer and meteorologist. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1876: Karl Ernst von Baer dies ... naturalist, biologist, geologist, meteorologist, geographer, and a founding father of embryology. He was a pioneer in studying biological time – the perception of time in different organisms. Pic. | ||
||1896: Leonid Andrussow born ... chemical engineer. He developed the process for the production of hydrogen cyanide based on the oxidation of ammonia and methane, now known as Andrussow oxidation. Pic. | |||
||1898: John Wishart born ... mathematician and agricultural statistician. He first formulated a generalised product-moment distribution named the Wishart distribution in his honor, in 1928. Pic. | ||1898: John Wishart born ... mathematician and agricultural statistician. He first formulated a generalised product-moment distribution named the Wishart distribution in his honor, in 1928. Pic. | ||
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File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology. | File:Claude Lévi-Strauss receiving Erasmus Prize (1973).jpg|link=Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist [[Claude Lévi-Strauss (nonfiction)|Claude Lévi-Strauss]] born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology. | ||
|| | ||1914: Johann Wilhelm Hittorf dies ... physicist who was born in Bonn and died in Münster, Germany. Hittorf was the first to compute the electricity-carrying capacity of charged atoms and molecules (ions), an important factor in understanding electrochemical reactions. He formulated ion transport numbers and the first method for their measurements. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1915: Wilfred Kaplan born ... professor of mathematics. His research focused on dynamical systems, the topology of curve families, complex function theory, and differential equations. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1917: Christian Christiansen dies ... physicist. He mainly studied radiant heat and optical dispersion, discovering the Christiansen effect (Christiansen filter). Around 1917, he discovered the anomalous dispersion of numerous dyes, including aniline red (fuchsine), by recording absorption spectra. Pic. | ||
||1925: | ||1925: Physicist Alfred Perot dies. Together with his colleague Charles Fabry he developed the Fabry–Pérot interferometer in 1899. Pic. | ||
||1925: The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the ''WSM Barn Dance''. | ||1925: The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the ''WSM Barn Dance''. | ||
||1935: Chemist Nikolai Kischner dies ... He significantly contributed to the understanding of alicyclic compounds, their intermediate position between fatty (acyclic) and aromatic compounds and relationships with heterocyclic compounds. He also developed several efficient catalytic synthesis methods that were used by the Soviet dye industry. Pic. | |||
||1939: James Naismith dies ... physician and educator, invented basketball. Pic (with ball). | |||
||1948: Alan Lightman born ... American physicist, novelist, and academician. (Alive Sept. 2018.) | ||1948: Alan Lightman born ... American physicist, novelist, and academician. (Alive Sept. 2018.) | ||
||1953: Frank Olson dies ... biologist and chemist. | ||1953: Frank Olson dies ... biologist and chemist. Pic search. | ||
File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1954: Physicist [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". | File:Enrico Fermi 1943-49.jpg|link=Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|1954: Physicist [[Enrico Fermi (nonfiction)|Enrico Fermi]] dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb". | ||
||1964: Hans Heinrich von Halban dies ... physicist. | ||1964: Hans Heinrich von Halban dies ... physicist. Pic. | ||
||1964: Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars. | ||1964: Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars. | ||
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File:Boris_Podolsky.jpg|link=Boris Podolsky (nonfiction)|1966: Physicist [[Boris Podolsky (nonfiction)|Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky]] dies. He worked with [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] and [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] on entangled wave functions and the [[EPR paradox (nonfiction)|EPR paradox]]. | File:Boris_Podolsky.jpg|link=Boris Podolsky (nonfiction)|1966: Physicist [[Boris Podolsky (nonfiction)|Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky]] dies. He worked with [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] and [[Nathan Rosen (nonfiction)|Nathan Rosen]] on entangled wave functions and the [[EPR paradox (nonfiction)|EPR paradox]]. | ||
||1967: The first pulsar known as PSR B1919+21 in the constellation of Vulpecula was discovered by | ||1967: The first pulsar known as PSR B1919+21 in the constellation of Vulpecula was discovered by astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish. Pic. | ||
||1969: Elbert Frank Cox dies ... mathematician and academic. He was the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in Mathematics. Pic. See also: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265229056_Evansville_Honors_the_First_Black_PhD_in_Mathematics_and_His_Family | |||
||1973: The Battle of Versailles Fashion Show was a historical fashion show held on November 28, 1973, in the Palace of Versailles to raise money for its restoration. Pic search. | |||
||1987: Choh Hao Li dies ... biologist and chemist. | ||1987: Choh Hao Li dies ... biologist and chemist ... discovered, in 1966, that human pituitary growth hormone (somatotropin) consists of a chain of 256 amino acids. In 1970 he succeeded in synthesizing this hormone, the largest protein molecule synthesized up to that time. Pic search. | ||
||2011: Lloyd John Old dies ... cancer immunology. | ||2010: Samuel T. Cohen dies ... physicist and academic. "Father of the atom bomb." Pic. | ||
||2011: Lloyd John Old dies ... cancer immunology. Pic. | |||
||2014: Thomas William Hungerford dies ... mathematician who worked in algebra and mathematics education. Pic. | ||2014: Thomas William Hungerford dies ... mathematician who worked in algebra and mathematics education. Pic. | ||
||2015: Janez Strnad dies ... physicist and popularizer of natural science. | ||2015: Janez Strnad dies ... physicist and popularizer of natural science. Pic. | ||
File:Moscow cable cars.jpg|link=Moscow cable car hack (nonfiction)|2018: The [[Moscow cable car hack (nonfiction)|Moscow cable car hack]] begins: computers at Moscow Ropeway (MKD), which manages Moscow's re-built cable car line, are infected with ransomware. MKD will stop all operations as soon as it realizes what has happened, bringing all 35 eight-seat cable cars to a halt. There will be no reported injuries, and all cable cars will land safely. | |||
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Latest revision as of 16:38, 7 February 2022
1680: Scholar and polymath Athanasius Kircher dies. He published some 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine.
1757: Poet, painter, and printmaker William Blake born. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake will later be considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Although Blake will be considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, he will be held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work.
1908: Anthropologist and ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss born. His work will be key in the development of the theory of structuralism and structural anthropology.
1954: Physicist Enrico Fermi dies. He has been called the "architect of the nuclear age" and the "architect of the atomic bomb".
1966: Physicist Boris Yakovlevich Podolsky dies. He worked with Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen on entangled wave functions and the EPR paradox.
2018: The Moscow cable car hack begins: computers at Moscow Ropeway (MKD), which manages Moscow's re-built cable car line, are infected with ransomware. MKD will stop all operations as soon as it realizes what has happened, bringing all 35 eight-seat cable cars to a halt. There will be no reported injuries, and all cable cars will land safely.