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File:Antoine Deparcieux.jpg|link=Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|1703: Mathematician and engineer [[Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|Antoine Deparcieux]] born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials. | File:Antoine Deparcieux.jpg|link=Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|1703: Mathematician and engineer [[Antoine Deparcieux (nonfiction)|Antoine Deparcieux]] born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials. | ||
||1704: John Locke dies ... physician and philosopher. Pic. | ||1704: John Locke dies ... physician and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1718: Ignacije Szentmartony born ... priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer. Pic search dubious | ||1718: Ignacije Szentmartony born ... priest, mathematician, astronomer, and explorer. Pic search dubious. | ||
||1792: John Smeaton dies ... engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge. EXISTS - Pic. | ||1792: John Smeaton dies ... engineer, designed the Coldstream Bridge and Perth Bridge. EXISTS - Pic. | ||
||1793: Eliphalet Remington born ... inventor and businessman, founded Remington Arms. Pic. | |||
||1794: Robert Liston born ... surgeon. Liston was noted for his skill in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival. Pic. | ||1794: Robert Liston born ... surgeon. Liston was noted for his skill in an era prior to anaesthetics, when speed made a difference in terms of pain and survival. Pic. | ||
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||1804: Pierre François Verhulst born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||1804: Pierre François Verhulst born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic. | ||
||1841: Johan August Arfwedson dies . | File:Johan August Arfwedson.jpg|link=Johan August Arfwedson (nonfiction)|1841: Chemist and academic [[Johan August Arfwedson (nonfiction)|Johan August Arfwedson]] dies. Arfwedson discovered the element lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt. | ||
||1845: Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski born ... physicist and chemist. Pic. | ||1845: Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski born ... physicist and chemist. Pic. | ||
||1871: Quirino Majorana born ... experimental physicist who investigated a wide range of phenomena | ||1871: Quirino Majorana born ... experimental physicist who investigated a wide range of phenomena | ||
||1873: Mathematician Karl Frithiof Sundman born - used analytic methods to prove the existence of a convergent infinite series solution to the three-body problem in two papers published in 1907 and 1909. | |||
||1880: Astrophysicist Wilhelm Anderson born. Anderson studied the physical structure of the stars. Pic. | |||
||1890: Josef Lense born ... physicist. Lense, together with Hans Thirring, is known as one of the two discoverers of the Lense-Thirring effect. | ||1890: Josef Lense born ... physicist. Lense, together with Hans Thirring, is known as one of the two discoverers of the Lense-Thirring effect. | ||
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||1893: Christopher Kelk Ingold born ... chemist based in Leeds and London. His groundbreaking work in the 1920s and 1930s on reaction mechanisms and the electronic structure of organic compounds was responsible for the introduction into mainstream chemistry of concepts such as nucleophile, electrophile, inductive and resonance effects, and such descriptors as SN1, SN2, E1, and E2. Pic. | ||1893: Christopher Kelk Ingold born ... chemist based in Leeds and London. His groundbreaking work in the 1920s and 1930s on reaction mechanisms and the electronic structure of organic compounds was responsible for the introduction into mainstream chemistry of concepts such as nucleophile, electrophile, inductive and resonance effects, and such descriptors as SN1, SN2, E1, and E2. Pic. | ||
||1905: Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest dies ... mathematician. | ||1905: Tatyana Pavlovna Ehrenfest dies ... mathematician. Ehrenfest made contributions to De Bruijn sequences, low-discrepancy sequences, and the BEST theorem. Pic. | ||
||1914: Jonas Salk born ... biologist and physician. Pic. | ||1914: Jonas Salk born ... biologist and physician. Pic. | ||
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||1916: Cleveland Abbe dies ... meteorologist and academic. Pic. | ||1916: Cleveland Abbe dies ... meteorologist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1918: Ulisse Dini dies ... mathematician and politician .... known for his contribution to real analysis. | ||1918: Ulisse Dini dies ... mathematician and politician .... known for his contribution to real analysis. Pic. | ||
||1918: José Leite Lopes born ... theoretical physicist who worked in the field of quantum field theory and particle physics. Political refugee from Brazil. Pic search. | |||
||1919: Gerhard Ringel born . | File:Gerhard Ringel surfing.jpg|link=Gerhard Ringel (nonfiction)|1919: Mathematician and academic [[Gerhard Ringel (nonfiction)|Gerhard Ringel]] born. Ringel will be a pioneer of graph theory and contribute significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (later the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the [[Four color theorem (nonfiction)|Four color theorem]]. | ||
||1919: The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January. | ||1919: The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January. | ||
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||1936: Joram Lindenstrauss born ... mathematician working in functional analysis and geometry, particularly Banach space theory, finite- and infinite-dimensional convexity, geometric nonlinear functional analysis and geometric measure theory. Among his results is the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma which concerns low-distortion embeddings of points from high-dimensional into low-dimensional Euclidean space. Pic. | ||1936: Joram Lindenstrauss born ... mathematician working in functional analysis and geometry, particularly Banach space theory, finite- and infinite-dimensional convexity, geometric nonlinear functional analysis and geometric measure theory. Among his results is the Johnson–Lindenstrauss lemma which concerns low-distortion embeddings of points from high-dimensional into low-dimensional Euclidean space. Pic. | ||
||1948: Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT. | ||1948: Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT. Pic. | ||
||1958: Stephen Butterworth dies ... physicist and engineer ... invented the filter that bears his name, a class of electrical circuits that separates electrical signals of different frequencies.No pics online: https://www.google.com/search?q=stephen+butterworth+physicist | ||1958: Stephen Butterworth dies ... physicist and engineer ... invented the filter that bears his name, a class of electrical circuits that separates electrical signals of different frequencies.No pics online: https://www.google.com/search?q=stephen+butterworth+physicist | ||
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||1971: Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, South Australia, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket. | ||1971: Britain launches the satellite Prospero into low Earth orbit atop a Black Arrow carrier rocket from Launch Area 5B at Woomera, South Australia, the only British satellite to date launched by a British rocket. | ||
||1977: Lambros Demetrios Callimahos dies ... US Army cryptologist. | ||1977: Lambros Demetrios Callimahos dies ... US Army cryptologist. Pic search. | ||
||1988: Hungarian Tivadar Millner dies ... inventor who developed tungsten lamps. Working at Tungsram, Tivadar Millner, along with Pál Túry, co-developed large-crystal tungsten technology for the production of more reliable and longer-lasting coiled filament lamps. Pic. | ||1988: Hungarian Tivadar Millner dies ... inventor who developed tungsten lamps. Working at Tungsram, Tivadar Millner, along with Pál Túry, co-developed large-crystal tungsten technology for the production of more reliable and longer-lasting coiled filament lamps. Pic. | ||
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||1994: Calvin Souther Fuller dies ... physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked for 37 years from 1930 to 1967. Fuller was part of a team in basic research that found answers to physical challenges. He helped develop synthetic rubber during World War II, he was involved in early experiments of zone melting, he is credited with devising the method of transistor production yielding diffusion transistors, he produced some of the first solar cells with high efficiency, and he researched polymers and their applications. | ||1994: Calvin Souther Fuller dies ... physical chemist at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked for 37 years from 1930 to 1967. Fuller was part of a team in basic research that found answers to physical challenges. He helped develop synthetic rubber during World War II, he was involved in early experiments of zone melting, he is credited with devising the method of transistor production yielding diffusion transistors, he produced some of the first solar cells with high efficiency, and he researched polymers and their applications. | ||
||1998: | ||1998: Tommy Flowers dies ... engineer with the British Post Office. During World War II, Flowers designed and built Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages. Pic. | ||
||2004: Ted Taylor dies ... theoretical physicist. He contributed to fission nuclear weapon development, designing the smallest fission bomb of the era ("Davy Crockett"), which weighed only 60 pounds. His later career focused on nuclear energy. Pic search | ||2004: Ted Taylor dies ... theoretical physicist. He contributed to fission nuclear weapon development, designing the smallest fission bomb of the era ("Davy Crockett"), which weighed only 60 pounds. His later career focused on nuclear energy. Pic search. | ||
||2005: Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. | ||2005: Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day. | ||
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||2014: An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. | ||2014: An unmanned Antares rocket carrying NASA's Cygnus CRS Orb-3 resupply mission to the International Space Station explodes seconds after taking off from the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport in Virginia. | ||
||2017: The anonymous user now widely referred to as “Q” appeared for the first time on 4chan, a so-called image board that is known for its grotesque memes, sickening photographs, and brutal teardown culture. Q predicted the imminent arrest of Hillary Clinton and a violent uprising nationwide, posting this: HRC extradition already in motion effective yesterday with several countries in case of cross border run. Passport approved to be flagged effective 10/30 @ 12:01am. Expect massive riots organized in defiance and others fleeing the US to occur. US M’s will conduct the operation while NG activated. Proof check: Locate a NG member and ask if activated for duty 10/30 across most major cities. | |||
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Latest revision as of 14:34, 23 March 2024
1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
1841: Chemist and academic Johan August Arfwedson dies. Arfwedson discovered the element lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt.
1892: Charles-Émile Reynaud performs the first of his Pantomimes Lumineuses shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.
1919: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel born. Ringel will be a pioneer of graph theory and contribute significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (later the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.
2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.