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File:Christopher Polhem painted by Johan Henrik Scheffel 1741.jpg|link=Christopher Polhem (nonfiction)|1751: Scientist, inventor, and industrialist [[Christopher Polhem (nonfiction)|Christopher Polhem]] dies. He made significant contributions to the economic and industrial development of Sweden, particularly mining. | File:Christopher Polhem painted by Johan Henrik Scheffel 1741.jpg|link=Christopher Polhem (nonfiction)|1751: Scientist, inventor, and industrialist [[Christopher Polhem (nonfiction)|Christopher Polhem]] dies. He made significant contributions to the economic and industrial development of Sweden, particularly mining. | ||
||1703: Jean-Louis Calandrini born ... scientist ... professor of mathematics and philosophy. He was the author of some studies on the aurora borealis, comets, and the effects of lightning, as well as of an important but unpublished work on flat and spherical trigonometry. He also wrote a commentary on the Principia of Isaac Newton. Pic. | ||1703: Jean-Louis Calandrini born ... scientist ... professor of mathematics and philosophy. He was the author of some studies on the aurora borealis, comets, and the effects of lightning, as well as of an important but unpublished work on flat and spherical trigonometry. He also wrote a commentary on the Principia of Isaac Newton. Pic. | ||
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||1819: Joseph Alfred Serret born ... mathematician. He will be known for the Frenet–Serret formulas. Pic. | ||1819: Joseph Alfred Serret born ... mathematician. He will be known for the Frenet–Serret formulas. Pic. | ||
||1831: Michael Faraday demonstrated the first electrical transformer. | ||1831: Michael Faraday demonstrated the first electrical transformer. Pic. | ||
File:Francis Baily.jpg|link=Francis Baily (nonfiction)|1844: Astronomer [[Francis Baily (nonfiction)|Francis Baily]] dies. He observed "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836). | File:Francis Baily.jpg|link=Francis Baily (nonfiction)|1844: Astronomer [[Francis Baily (nonfiction)|Francis Baily]] dies. He observed "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836). | ||
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||1848: Simon Willard dies ... celebrated U.S. clockmaker. Among his many innovations and timekeeping improvements, Simon Willard is best known for inventing the eight-day patent timepiece that came to be known as the gallery or banjo clock. Pic: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13606676/simon-willard | ||1848: Simon Willard dies ... celebrated U.S. clockmaker. Among his many innovations and timekeeping improvements, Simon Willard is best known for inventing the eight-day patent timepiece that came to be known as the gallery or banjo clock. Pic: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13606676/simon-willard | ||
||1852: Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. | ||1852: Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... first winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Pic. | ||
||1856: Carl David Tolmé Runge born ... mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist. | ||1856: Carl David Tolmé Runge born ... mathematician, physicist, and spectroscopist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=carl+david+tolmé+runge | ||
||1869: Georg von Arco born ... physicist, radio pioneer, and one of the joint founders of the "Society for Wireless Telegraphy" which became the Telefunken company. He was an engineer and the technical director of Telefunken. He was crucial in the development of wireless technology in Europe. | ||1869: Georg von Arco born ... physicist, radio pioneer, and one of the joint founders of the "Society for Wireless Telegraphy" which became the Telefunken company. He was an engineer and the technical director of Telefunken. He was crucial in the development of wireless technology in Europe. Pic. | ||
||1871: Ernest Rutherford born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||1871: Ernest Rutherford born ... physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
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||1899: Gaston Tissandier dies ... chemist, meteorologist, aviator and editor. Adventurer could be added to the list of his titles, as he managed to escape besieged Paris by balloon in September 1870. He founded and edited the scientific magazine ''La Nature'' and wrote several books. Pic. | ||1899: Gaston Tissandier dies ... chemist, meteorologist, aviator and editor. Adventurer could be added to the list of his titles, as he managed to escape besieged Paris by balloon in September 1870. He founded and edited the scientific magazine ''La Nature'' and wrote several books. Pic. | ||
File:Olga Taussky-Todd.jpg|link=Olga Taussky-Todd (nonfiction)|1906: Mathematician and academic [[Olga Taussky-Todd (nonfiction)|Olga Taussky-Todd]] born. She will contribute to matrix theory (in particular the computational stability of complex matrices), algebraic number theory, group theory, and numerical analysis. | File:Olga Taussky-Todd.jpg|link=Olga Taussky-Todd (nonfiction)|1906: Mathematician and academic [[Olga Taussky-Todd (nonfiction)|Olga Taussky-Todd]] born. She will contribute to matrix theory (in particular the computational stability of complex matrices), algebraic number theory, group theory, and numerical analysis. | ||
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||1907: John Mauchly born ... physicist and co-founder of the first computer company. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Mauchly | ||1907: John Mauchly born ... physicist and co-founder of the first computer company. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=John+Mauchly | ||
||1909: Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott. | ||1909: Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott. Pic. | ||
||1912: Edward Mills Purcell born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures. Pic. | ||1912: Edward Mills Purcell born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... independent discovery (published 1946) of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures. Pic. | ||
||1918: Sergey Afanasyev born ... engineer, space and defence industry executive, the first Minister of the Soviet-era Ministry of General Machine Building. | ||1912: Nancy Wake born ... captain and espionage agent. Pic. | ||
||1918: Sergey Afanasyev born ... engineer, space and defence industry executive, the first Minister of the Soviet-era Ministry of General Machine Building. Pic. | |||
||1924: Ernst Waldemar Jungner dies ... inventor and engineer. In 1899 he invented the nickel-iron electric storage battery (NiFe), the nickel-cadmium battery (NiCd) and the rechargeable alkaline silver-cadmium battery (AgCd). As an inventor he also fabricated a fire alarm based on different dilutions of metals. He worked on the electrolytic production of sodium carbonate, and patented a rock drilling device. Pic. | ||1924: Ernst Waldemar Jungner dies ... inventor and engineer. In 1899 he invented the nickel-iron electric storage battery (NiFe), the nickel-cadmium battery (NiCd) and the rechargeable alkaline silver-cadmium battery (AgCd). As an inventor he also fabricated a fire alarm based on different dilutions of metals. He worked on the electrolytic production of sodium carbonate, and patented a rock drilling device. Pic. | ||
||1928: Wilhelm Wien dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from the emission at any one reference temperature. | ||1928: Wilhelm Wien dies ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... in 1893, used theories about heat and electromagnetism to deduce Wien's displacement law, which calculates the emission of a blackbody at any temperature from the emission at any one reference temperature. Pic. | ||
File:J_J_Thomson.jpg|link=J. J. Thomson (nonfiction)|1940: Physicist, academic, and Nobel laureate [[J. J. Thomson (nonfiction)|J. J. Thomson]] dies. His research in cathode rays led to the discovery of the electron. Thomson also discovered the first evidence for isotopes of a stable element. | File:J_J_Thomson.jpg|link=J. J. Thomson (nonfiction)|1940: Physicist, academic, and Nobel laureate [[J. J. Thomson (nonfiction)|J. J. Thomson]] dies. His research in cathode rays led to the discovery of the electron. Thomson also discovered the first evidence for isotopes of a stable element. | ||
||1941: Peder Oluf Pedersen dies ... physicist and engineer. | ||1941: Peder Oluf Pedersen dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Peder+Oluf+Pedersen | ||
||1962: The hot line between the White House and the Kremlin installed ... The "Red Telephone" (White House-Kremlin hotline) | ||1962: The hot line between the White House and the Kremlin installed ... The "Red Telephone" (White House-Kremlin hotline) | ||
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||1988: Albert F. Frey-Wyssling dies ... botanist and pioneer of submicroscopic morphology who helped to initiate the study later known as molecular biology. This scientific discipline deals with the molecular basis of living processes. Molecular biology now involves both biochemistry and biophysics. Its growth since the 1930s has been made possible by the development of such techniques as chromatography, electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction, which have revealed the structures of biologically important molecules, such as DNA, RNA, and enzymes. Heredity, and the development, organization, and function of living cells, all depend on the physical and chemical properties of the molecules involved. Pic. | ||1988: Albert F. Frey-Wyssling dies ... botanist and pioneer of submicroscopic morphology who helped to initiate the study later known as molecular biology. This scientific discipline deals with the molecular basis of living processes. Molecular biology now involves both biochemistry and biophysics. Its growth since the 1930s has been made possible by the development of such techniques as chromatography, electron microscopy, and X-ray diffraction, which have revealed the structures of biologically important molecules, such as DNA, RNA, and enzymes. Heredity, and the development, organization, and function of living cells, all depend on the physical and chemical properties of the molecules involved. Pic. | ||
||1990: Bernard D. H. Tellegen dies ... engineer and academic. | ||1990: Bernard D. H. Tellegen dies ... engineer and academic ... inventor of the pentode and the gyrator. He is also known for a theorem in circuit theory, Tellegen's theorem. Pic. | ||
||1998: Irving Ezra Segal dies ... mathematician known for work on theoretical quantum mechanics. He shares credit for what is often referred to as the Segal–Shale–Weil representation. | ||1998: Irving Ezra Segal dies ... mathematician known for work on theoretical quantum mechanics. He shares credit for what is often referred to as the Segal–Shale–Weil representation. Pic. | ||
||2004: Fred Lawrence Whipple dies ... astronomer and academic. | ||2004: Fred Lawrence Whipple dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic. | ||
File:Seamus Heaney 1970.jpg|link=Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|2013: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer [[Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|Seamus Heaney]] dies. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. | File:Seamus Heaney 1970.jpg|link=Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|2013: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer [[Seamus Heaney (nonfiction)|Seamus Heaney]] dies. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. | ||
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||2016: Mathematician and academic William A. Veech dies ... research concerned dynamical systems; he is particularly known for his work on interval exchange transformations, and is the namesake of the Veech surface. Pic: https://www.ias.edu/scholars/william-veech | ||2016: Mathematician and academic William A. Veech dies ... research concerned dynamical systems; he is particularly known for his work on interval exchange transformations, and is the namesake of the Veech surface. Pic: https://www.ias.edu/scholars/william-veech | ||
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1751: Scientist, inventor, and industrialist Christopher Polhem dies. He made significant contributions to the economic and industrial development of Sweden, particularly mining.
1844: Astronomer Francis Baily dies. He observed "Baily's beads" during an annular eclipse (1836).
1884: Chemist and academic Theodor Svedberg born. He will be awarded the 1926 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering use of analytical ultracentrifugation to distinguish pure proteins from one another.
1906: Mathematician and academic Olga Taussky-Todd born. She will contribute to matrix theory (in particular the computational stability of complex matrices), algebraic number theory, group theory, and numerical analysis.
1940: Physicist, academic, and Nobel laureate J. J. Thomson dies. His research in cathode rays led to the discovery of the electron. Thomson also discovered the first evidence for isotopes of a stable element.
1954: The Worcester Lunch Car Company's Research Division announces daily Flying Diner breakfast and dinner flights between San Francisco and New Minneapolis.
2013: Poet, playwright, translator, and lecturer Seamus Heaney dies. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.