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||240 BC: First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. | ||240 BC: First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. | ||
File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|986: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] dies. | File:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi.jpg|link=Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|986: Astronomer [[Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi (nonfiction)|Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi]] dies. | ||
||1555: Gemma Frisius dies . | File:Reinerus Frisius Gemma, by Maarten van Heemskerck.jpg|link=Gemma Frisius (nonfiction)|1555: Physician, mathematician, and cartographer [[Gemma Frisius (nonfiction)|Gemma Frisius]] dies. He created important globes, improved the mathematical instruments of his day, and applied mathematics to surveying and navigation in new ways. | ||
||1632: Adam Tanner dies ... Jesuit, mathematician, and philosopher. No pic online. | ||1632: Adam Tanner dies ... Jesuit, mathematician, and philosopher. No pic online. | ||
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||1919: Raymond Merrill Smullyan born ... mathematician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher. Pic. | ||1919: Raymond Merrill Smullyan born ... mathematician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher. Pic. | ||
||1924: Ashutosh Mukherjee dies ... educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician. He was the first student to be awarded a dual degree (MA in Mathematics and Physics) from Calcutta University. Perhaps the most emphatic figure of Indian education, he was a man of great personality, high self-respect, courage and towering administrative ability. The second Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23), Mukherjee was responsible for the foundation of the Bengal Technical Institute in 1906 and the College of Science of the Calcutta University in 1914. Mukherjee also played a vital role in the founding of the University College of Law popularly known as Hazra Law College. The Calcutta Mathematical Society was also founded by Mukherjee in 1908 and he served as the president of the Society from 1908 to 1923. He was also the president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress in 1914. The Ashutosh College was also founded under his stewardship in 1916, when he was Vice-chancellor of University of Calcutta. He was often called "Banglar Bagh" ("Tiger of Bengal") for his high self-esteem, courage, academic integrity and a general intransigent attitude towards the British Government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashutosh_Mukherjee | ||1924: Ashutosh Mukherjee dies ... educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician. He was the first student to be awarded a dual degree (MA in Mathematics and Physics) from Calcutta University. Perhaps the most emphatic figure of Indian education, he was a man of great personality, high self-respect, courage and towering administrative ability. The second Indian Vice-Chancellor of the University of Calcutta for four consecutive two-year terms (1906–1914) and a fifth two-year term (1921–23), Mukherjee was responsible for the foundation of the Bengal Technical Institute in 1906 and the College of Science of the Calcutta University in 1914. Mukherjee also played a vital role in the founding of the University College of Law popularly known as Hazra Law College. The Calcutta Mathematical Society was also founded by Mukherjee in 1908 and he served as the president of the Society from 1908 to 1923. He was also the president of the inaugural session of the Indian Science Congress in 1914. The Ashutosh College was also founded under his stewardship in 1916, when he was Vice-chancellor of University of Calcutta. He was often called "Banglar Bagh" ("Tiger of Bengal") for his high self-esteem, courage, academic integrity and a general intransigent attitude towards the British Government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashutosh_Mukherjee Pic. | ||
||1925: Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee. | ||1925: Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution in Tennessee. | ||
||TO_DO: 1927: György Marx born ... physicist, astrophysicist, science historian and professor. He discovered the lepton numbers and established the law of lepton flavor conservation. Pic: crazy cool !! | |||
||1939: Sir Frank Watson Dyson dies. He was an English astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in proving Einstein's theory of general relativity. Pic. | ||1939: Sir Frank Watson Dyson dies. He was an English astronomer and Astronomer Royal who is remembered today largely for introducing time signals ("pips") from Greenwich, England, and for the role he played in proving Einstein's theory of general relativity. Pic. | ||
||1951: Nigel de Grey dies ... codebreaker. Son of the rector of Copdock, Suffolk, and grandson of the 5th Lord Walsingham, he was educated at Eton College and became fluent in French and German. In 1907 he joined the publishing firm of William Heinemann. As he was shy and physically small, a colleague labelled him "the dormouse". Pic search. | |||
||1953: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test. | ||1953: At the Nevada Test Site, the United States conducts its first and only nuclear artillery test. | ||
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||1978: The first bomb of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern University resulting in minor injuries. | ||1978: The first bomb of a series of bombings orchestrated by the Unabomber detonates at Northwestern University resulting in minor injuries. | ||
File:John F. Kennedy moon mission speech.jpg|link=|1961: Apollo program: U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|John F. Kennedy]] announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade. | File:John F. Kennedy moon mission speech.jpg|link=|1961: Apollo program: U.S. President [[John F. Kennedy (nonfiction)|John F. Kennedy]] announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade. | ||
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||2012: The SpaceX Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station. | ||2012: The SpaceX Dragon became the first commercial spacecraft to successfully rendezvous with the International Space Station. | ||
||2016: Gyula Kosice dies ... sculptor, plastic artist, and poet. He was one of the most important figures in kinetic and luminal art and luminance vanguard. | ||2016: Gyula Kosice dies ... sculptor, plastic artist, and poet. He was one of the most important figures in kinetic and luminal art and luminance vanguard. Pic. IN CHRONICLES. | ||
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Latest revision as of 20:40, 29 May 2024
986: Astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dies.
1555: Physician, mathematician, and cartographer Gemma Frisius dies. He created important globes, improved the mathematical instruments of his day, and applied mathematics to surveying and navigation in new ways.
1828: Mathematician Karl Mikhailovich Peterson born. He will discover equations which will subsequently be named the Gauss–Codazzi equations, fundamental to the theory of embedded hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space.
1889: Aircraft designer Igor Sikorsky born. He will pioneer both helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.
1961: Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces before a special joint session of the Congress his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.