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||1521: After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. Pic.
||1521: After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. Pic.


File:Rasmus_Bartholin.jpg|link=Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|1625: Physician, mathematician, and physicist [[Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|Rasmus Bartholin]] born. He will discover the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.  
File:Rasmus_Bartholin.jpg|link=Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|1625: Physician, mathematician, and physicist [[Rasmus Bartholin (nonfiction)|Rasmus Bartholin]] born. He will discover the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.  
||1710: William Heberden born ... physician and scholar. "In 1766, he recommended to the College of Physicians the first design of the Medical Transactions, in which he proposed to collect together such observations as might have occurred to any of their body, and were likely to illustrate the history or cure of diseases. The plan was soon adopted, and three volumes (were) successively laid before the public." Pic.


||1756: James Gillray born ... caricaturist and printmaker. Pic.
||1756: James Gillray born ... caricaturist and printmaker. Pic.
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||1814: Anders Jonas Ångström born ... physicist and astronomer. Pic.
||1814: Anders Jonas Ångström born ... physicist and astronomer. Pic.


||1819: Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet born ... mathematician and physicist.
File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1819: Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] born. He will make pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.  


||1822: Heinrich Louis d'Arrest ... astronomer.
||1822: Amateur mathematician Jean-Robert Argand dies. In 1806, while managing a bookstore in Paris, he published the idea of geometrical interpretation of complex numbers known as the Argand diagram and is known for the first rigorous proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra. Pic search: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Robert_Argand


||1826: René Laennec dies ... physician, invented the stethoscope.
||1822: Heinrich Louis d'Arrest born ... astronomer. Pic.


||1831: Nat Turner witnesses a solar eclipse which caused the sky to appear a blue-green color, which he envisioned as a black man's hand reaching over the sun. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill between 55-65 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
||1826: René Laennec dies ... physician, invented the stethoscope. Pic.
 
||1831: Nat Turner witnesses a solar eclipse which caused the sky to appear a blue-green color, which he envisioned as a black man's hand reaching over the sun. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill between 55-65 whites in Southampton County, Virginia. Pic.


||1844: Johann Friedrich Miescher born ... biochemist and biologist who studied cell metabolism and discovered nucleic acids. In 1869, while working under Ernst Hoppe-Seyler at the University of Tübingen, Miescher investigated a substance containing both phosphorus and nitrogen in the nuclei of white blood cells found in pus. The substance, first named nuclein because it seemed to come from cell nuclei, became known as nucleic acid after 1874, when Miescher separated it into a protein and an acid molecule. It is now known as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Pic.
||1844: Johann Friedrich Miescher born ... biochemist and biologist who studied cell metabolism and discovered nucleic acids. In 1869, while working under Ernst Hoppe-Seyler at the University of Tübingen, Miescher investigated a substance containing both phosphorus and nitrogen in the nuclei of white blood cells found in pus. The substance, first named nuclein because it seemed to come from cell nuclei, became known as nucleic acid after 1874, when Miescher separated it into a protein and an acid molecule. It is now known as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Pic.


||1861: Herbert Hall Turner born ... astronomer and seismologist.
||1861: Herbert Hall Turner born ... astronomer and seismologist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Herbert+Hall+Turner


File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1863: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] dies. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.
File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1863: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] dies. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.
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||1867: Arthur Eichengrün born ... chemist, materials scientist, and inventor. He is known for developing the highly successful anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol, the standard treatment for 50 years until the adoption of antibiotics, and for his pioneering contributions in plastics. Pic.
||1867: Arthur Eichengrün born ... chemist, materials scientist, and inventor. He is known for developing the highly successful anti-gonorrhea drug Protargol, the standard treatment for 50 years until the adoption of antibiotics, and for his pioneering contributions in plastics. Pic.


||1872: Richard Willstätter born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate.
||1872: Richard Willstätter born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate. Pic.


||1882: William Stanley Jevons dies ... economist and logician. Pic.
||1882: William Stanley Jevons dies ... economist and logician. Pic.


||1884: Rufus M. Porter dies ... painter, inventor, and founder of Scientific American magazine. Pic.
||1884: Rufus M. Porter dies ... painter, inventor, and founder of Scientific American magazine. Pic.
||1888: John Logie Baird born ... invented the television.


||1896: Mathematician Philipp Ludwig von Seidel dies. He formulated the notion of uniform convergence.  Pic: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Ludwig_von_Seidel ... AMA says 23 Oct.
||1896: Mathematician Philipp Ludwig von Seidel dies. He formulated the notion of uniform convergence.  Pic: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Ludwig_von_Seidel ... AMA says 23 Oct.


||1898: Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found. Pic.
||1898: Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found. Pic.
File:George Gabriel Stokes.jpg|link=Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|1903:  Physicist and mathematician [[Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet (nonfiction)|Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet]] born. He will make seminal contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.


||1910: Florence Nightingale dies ... social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She was a pioneer in the use of infographics, effectively using graphical presentations of statistical data. Pic.
||1910: Florence Nightingale dies ... social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She was a pioneer in the use of infographics, effectively using graphical presentations of statistical data. Pic.
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||1912: Salvador Luria born ... microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1912: Salvador Luria born ... microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1914: Grace Bates born ... mathematician and academic.
||1914: Grace Bates born ... mathematician and academic. Pic search maybe: https://www.google.com/search?q=Grace+Bates+mathematician
 
||1915: John Ulric Nef born ... chemist and academic ... discoverer of the Nef reaction and Nef synthesis. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Ulric+Nef


||1917: Eduard Buchner dies ... chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1917: Eduard Buchner dies ... chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1918: Frederick Sanger born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.
||1918: Frederick Sanger born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.


||1923: Arthur Dodd Code born ... astronomer who designed orbiting observatories. Pic.
||1923: Arthur Dodd Code born ... astronomer who designed orbiting observatories. Pic.
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||1932: Nguyen Dinh Ngoc born ... Army officer and a Vietnamese mathematician. Pic: http://khoahoc.tv/nha-khoa-hoc-diep-vien-nguyen-dinh-ngoc-24831
||1932: Nguyen Dinh Ngoc born ... Army officer and a Vietnamese mathematician. Pic: http://khoahoc.tv/nha-khoa-hoc-diep-vien-nguyen-dinh-ngoc-24831
File:Egon Rhodomunde.jpg|link=Egon Rhodomunde|1941: Film director and arms dealer [[Egon Rhodomunde]] raises money for new film by selling shares in the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].


File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1942: Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].
File:Atomic bombing of Japan.jpg|link=Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|1942: Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]].
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||1969: The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
||1969: The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York City That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
||2004: Anna Macleod born ... biochemist and academic, an authority on brewing and distilling. She was a professor at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. She was the world's first female Professor of Brewing and Biochemistry. Pic.


||2008: Henri Cartan dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
||2008: Henri Cartan dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic.


||2014: Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani honored with the Fields Medal.
||2014: Mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani honored with the Fields Medal. Pic.
 
|File:Ascleplius Myrmidon Halting Problem.jpg|link=On Halting Problems|2017: Time-travelling physician-warrior Asclepius Myrmidon [[On Halting Problems|discovers unregistered halting problem]], predicts emergence of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
 
File:Crimson Blossom 2.jpg|link=Crimson Blossom 2 (nonfiction)|2019: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Crimson Blossom 2 (nonfiction)|Crimson Blossom 2]]'' reveals "five hundred and twelve kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions.


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Latest revision as of 12:04, 7 February 2022

  • 1625: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin born. He will discover the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.

    1625: Physician, mathematician, and physicist Rasmus Bartholin born. He will discover the double refraction of a light ray by Iceland spar, publishing an accurate description of the phenomenon in 1669.

  • 1819: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet born. He will make pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.

    1819: Physicist and mathematician Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet born. He will make pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics (including the Navier–Stokes equations) and to physical optics.

  • 1863: Artist Eugène Delacroix dies. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.

    1863: Artist Eugène Delacroix dies. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.

  • 1942: Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

    1942: Major General Eugene Reybold of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers authorizes the construction of facilities that would house the "Development of Substitute Materials" project, better known as the Manhattan Project.

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