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File:Jan Kanty.jpg|link=John Cantius (nonfiction)|1390: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian [[John Cantius (nonfiction)|John Cantius]] born. He will help develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton.
File:Jan Kanty.jpg|link=John Cantius (nonfiction)|1390: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian [[John Cantius (nonfiction)|John Cantius]] born. He will help develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton.
File:Didacus automaton profile.jpg|link=Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|1562: [[Didacus automaton (nonfiction)|Didacus automaton]] develops self-awareness, predicts "great things" for [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]].


||1612: André Tacquet born ... mathematician and Jesuit priest. Tacquet adhered to the methods of the geometry of Euclid and the philosophy of Aristotle and opposed the method of indivisibles. Pic: book cover.
||1612: André Tacquet born ... mathematician and Jesuit priest. Tacquet adhered to the methods of the geometry of Euclid and the philosophy of Aristotle and opposed the method of indivisibles. Pic: book cover.
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||1756: Thomas Jones born ... Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge for twenty years and an outstanding teacher of mathematics. Pic.
||1756: Thomas Jones born ... Head Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge for twenty years and an outstanding teacher of mathematics. Pic.


||1832: James Hall dies ... geologist and geophysicist (b. 1761). No pic.
||1832: James Hall dies ... geologist and geophysicist. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=james+hall+geologist


||1843: Paul Heinrich von Groth born ... scientist. Pic.
||1843: Paul Heinrich von Groth born ... scientist. Pic.
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File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1912: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] born. He will be influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the [[Turing machine (nonfiction)|Turing machine]].
File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1912: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] born. He will be influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the [[Turing machine (nonfiction)|Turing machine]].


File:Havelock_and_Tesla_telecommunications_research.jpg|link=Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|1913: While [[Havelock and Tesla Research Telecommunication|testing new data transmission protocols]], Havelock and Nikola Tesla receive what appears to be a message from [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] containing a description of what will later be known as a [[Turing machine (nonfiction)|Turing machine]].
||1915: Frances Gabe born ... artist and inventor ... self-cleaning house.  Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=frances+gabe


||1915: Frances Gabe born ... artist and inventor ... self-cleaning house. No pic.
||1922: Morris R. Jeppson born ... American lieutenant and physicist ... Jeppson was a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He served as assistant weaponeer on the Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. Pic.


||1926: Lawson Soulsby born ... microbiologist and parasitologist. Pic.
||1926: Lawson Soulsby born ... microbiologist and parasitologist. Pic.
||1927: Earl Muetterties born ... inorganic chemist born in Illinois, who is known for his experimental work with boranes, homogeneous catalysis, heterogeneous catalysis, fluxional processes in organometallic complexes and apicophilicity. Pic.


||1941: Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness born ... historian of mathematics and logic. Pic.
||1941: Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness born ... historian of mathematics and logic. Pic.
||1945:  Refah tragedy (Turkish: Refah faciası) was a maritime disaster that took place during World War II, in June 1941, when the cargo steamer Refah of neutral Turkey, carrying Turkish military personnel from Mersin in Turkey to Port Said, Egypt, was sunk in eastern Mediterranean waters by a torpedo fired from an unidentified submarine. Of the 200 passengers and crew aboard, only 32 survived. Pic.


File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1959: Convicted Manhattan Project spy [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1959: Convicted Manhattan Project spy [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.


||1959: Boris Vian born ... polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release. Pic.
||1959: Boris Vian dies ... polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator, critic, actor, inventor and engineer. He is best remembered today for his novels. Those published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan were bizarre parodies of criminal fiction, highly controversial at the time of their release. Pic.


||1969: IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
||1969: IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.


File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1972: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
File:Nixon April-29-1974.jpg|link=Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|1972: [[Watergate scandal (nonfiction)|Watergate scandal]]: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.
||1973: Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov dies ... mathematician and an early pioneer of computer science. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Alexey+Lyapunov


||1995: Jonas Salk dies ... biologist and physician. Pic.
||1995: Jonas Salk dies ... biologist and physician. Pic.
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||2014: Mathematician and academic Joachim "Jim" Lambek dies. Pic.
||2014: Mathematician and academic Joachim "Jim" Lambek dies. Pic.


File:Stardust.jpg|link=Stardust (image) (nonfiction)|2016: Signed first edition of ''[[Stardust (image) (nonfiction)|Stardust]]'' used in [[high-energy literature]] experiment unexpectedly develops [[Artificial intelligence (nonfiction)|artificial intelligence]].
||2016: Stanley Mandelstam dies ... theoretical physicist. He introduced the relativistically invariant Mandelstam variables into particle physics in 1958 as a convenient coordinate system for formulating his double dispersion relations. The double dispersion relations were a central tool in the bootstrap program which sought to formulate a consistent theory of infinitely many particle types of increasing spin. Pic seach: https://www.google.com/search?q=stanley+mandelstam


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Latest revision as of 19:21, 6 February 2022

  • 1390: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian John Cantius born. He will help develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton.

    1390: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian John Cantius born. He will help develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton.

  • 1912: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing born. He will be influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.

    1912: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing born. He will be influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.

  • 1959: Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.

    1959: Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.

  • 1972: Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.

    1972: Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.

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