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|| | ||1394: Prince Henry the Navigator dies ... patron of exploration. Pic. | ||
||1715: Physician Dorothea Erxleben born. Erxleben will be the first female medical doctor in Germany. Pic. | |||
||1841: James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism. | File:James Braid.jpg|link=James Braid (nonfiction)|1841: Surgeon and gentleman scientist [[James Braid (nonfiction)|James Braid]] first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism. | ||
||1878: Max Dehn born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1878: Max Dehn born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
||1893: Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1893: Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1900: Samuel King Allison born ... physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project, for which he was awarded the Medal for Merit. He was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory from 1943 until 1944, and later worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory — where he "rode herd" on the final stages of the project as part of the "Cowpuncher Committee", and read the countdown for the detonation of the Trinity nuclear test. After the war he was involved in the "scientists' movement", lobbying for civilian control of nuclear weapons. Pic. | ||1900: Samuel King Allison born ... physicist, most notable for his role in the Manhattan Project, for which he was awarded the Medal for Merit. He was director of the Metallurgical Laboratory from 1943 until 1944, and later worked at the Los Alamos Laboratory — where he "rode herd" on the final stages of the project as part of the "Cowpuncher Committee", and read the countdown for the detonation of the Trinity nuclear test. After the war he was involved in the "scientists' movement", lobbying for civilian control of nuclear weapons. Pic. | ||
||1906: A. W. Mailvaganam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic. | ||1906: A. W. Mailvaganam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1907: | ||1907: Kenneth David "Nick" Nichols born ... United States Army officer and an engineer. He worked on the Manhattan Project, which developed the Atomic Bomb during World War II, as Deputy District Engineer to James C. Marshall, and from 13 August 1943 as the District Engineer of the Manhattan Engineer District. He was responsible for both the uranium production facility at the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee and the plutonium production facility at Hanford Engineer Works in Washington state. | ||
|| | ||1911: Heinz von Foerster born ... physicist and philosopher. A polymath, von Foerster gained renown in fields from computer science and artificial intelligence to epistemology, and researched high-speed electronics and electro-optics switching devices as a physicist, and in biophysics, the study of memory and knowledge. He worked on cognition based on neurophysiology, mathematics, and philosophy. Pic. | ||
||1920: Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan born ... mathematician known for his work in number theory. Pic. | ||1920: Kollagunta Gopalaiyer Ramanathan born ... mathematician known for his work in number theory. Pic. | ||
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||1947: The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles. | ||1947: The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles. | ||
||1963: Margaret Murray dies ... archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist. Pic. | |||
File:Gerard Butler 2013.jpg|link=Gerard Butler (nonfiction)|1969: Actor [[Gerard Butler (nonfiction)|Gerard Butler]] born. | File:Gerard Butler 2013.jpg|link=Gerard Butler (nonfiction)|1969: Actor [[Gerard Butler (nonfiction)|Gerard Butler]] born. | ||
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||2001: War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States. | ||2001: War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States. | ||
||2010: Allan Sandage dies ... astronomer and cosmologist. | ||2010: Allan Sandage dies ... astronomer and cosmologist. Pic. | ||
||2012: A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific | ||2012: A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific | ||
File:Alexander Grothendieck.jpg|link=Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|2014: Mathematician and theorist [[Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|Alexander Grothendieck]] dies. He was the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. | File:Alexander Grothendieck.jpg|link=Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|2014: Mathematician and theorist [[Alexander Grothendieck (nonfiction)|Alexander Grothendieck]] dies. He was the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry. | ||
Latest revision as of 16:07, 7 February 2022
1841: Surgeon and gentleman scientist James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.
1969: Actor Gerard Butler born.
2014: Mathematician and theorist Alexander Grothendieck dies. He was the leading figure in the creation of modern algebraic geometry.
2017: Action-adventure film London Has Swollen opens to rave reviews.