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File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds. | File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds. | ||
||1666: Gaspar Schott dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic: sketch by Schott of Magdeburg spheres. Pic search | ||1666: Gaspar Schott dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic: sketch by Schott of Magdeburg spheres. Pic search. | ||
||1783: William Sturgeon born ... physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor. Pic. | ||1783: William Sturgeon born ... physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor. Pic. | ||
||1803: Chemist Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann born. He patented the reaction for converting ammonia to nitric acid, which was later used in the Ostwald process. Pic. | |||
||1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri. | ||1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri. | ||
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||1893: Bronisław Knaster born ... mathematician. He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum. Pic. | ||1893: Bronisław Knaster born ... mathematician. He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum. Pic. | ||
||1895: Isaac Peral dies ... engineer, naval officer and designer of the Peral Submarine. He joined the Spanish navy in 1866, and developed the first electric-powered submarine which was launched in 1888, but it was not accepted by the naval authorities. He then left the navy to develop other inventions commercially. Pic. | |||
||1900: Herbert Alois Wagner born ... scientist who developed numerous innovations in the fields of aerodynamics, aircraft structures and guided weapons. He is most famous for Wagner's function describing unsteady lift on wings and developing the Henschel Hs 293 glide bomb. Pic. | ||1900: Herbert Alois Wagner born ... scientist who developed numerous innovations in the fields of aerodynamics, aircraft structures and guided weapons. He is most famous for Wagner's function describing unsteady lift on wings and developing the Henschel Hs 293 glide bomb. Pic. | ||
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||1903: Physicist and academic Bertha Swirles born ... carried out research on quantum theory. Pic. | ||1903: Physicist and academic Bertha Swirles born ... carried out research on quantum theory. Pic. | ||
||1904: Uno Lamm born ... electrical engineer and inventor ... sometimes called "The Father of High Voltage Direct Current" power transmission. Pic search | ||1904: Uno Lamm born ... electrical engineer and inventor ... sometimes called "The Father of High Voltage Direct Current" power transmission. Pic search. | ||
||1905: Bodo von Borries born ... physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope. Pic search | ||1905: Bodo von Borries born ... physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope. Pic search. | ||
||1906: The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". | ||1906: The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". | ||
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||1927: George Andrew Olah born ... chemist and academic ... His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry." Pic. | ||1927: George Andrew Olah born ... chemist and academic ... His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry." Pic. | ||
||1929: Mathematician André Haefliger born - he worked primarily on topology. | |||
File:Rabbi Dr. Eliezer (Leon) Ehrenpreis.jpg|link=Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi [[Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis]] born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients. | File:Rabbi Dr. Eliezer (Leon) Ehrenpreis.jpg|link=Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi [[Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis]] born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients. | ||
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File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space. | File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space. | ||
||1947: Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos born ... astronomer and astrophysicist. Pic search book cover. | |||
||1956: Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel dies ... physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect. Pic. | ||1956: Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel dies ... physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect. Pic. | ||
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||1991: Derrick Henry Lehmer dies ... mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer's peripatetic career as a number theorist, with he and his wife taking numerous types of work in the United States and abroad to support themselves during the Great Depression, fortuitously brought him into the center of research into early electronic computing. Pic. | ||1991: Derrick Henry Lehmer dies ... mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer's peripatetic career as a number theorist, with he and his wife taking numerous types of work in the United States and abroad to support themselves during the Great Depression, fortuitously brought him into the center of research into early electronic computing. Pic. | ||
||1997: Myrtle Bachelder dies . | File:Myrtle_Bachelder_-_1942.jpg|link=Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|1997: Chemist and US military officer [[Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|Myrtle Bachelder]] dies. Bachelder was responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder made pioneering contributions to metallochemistry. | ||
||1997: Alfred Hershey born ... biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1997: Alfred Hershey born ... biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
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||1998: José Enrique Moyal dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | ||1998: José Enrique Moyal dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | ||
File: | File:Martin Gardner.jpg|link=Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematics and science writer [[Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|Martin Gardner]] dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature. | ||
File: | File:Self portrait (22 May 2024) 20240522_200220.jpg|link=Self portrait (22 May 2024)|2024: '''[[Self portrait (22 May 2024)|Self portrait]]'''. | ||
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1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.
1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.
1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.
1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.
1997: Chemist and US military officer Myrtle Bachelder dies. Bachelder was responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder made pioneering contributions to metallochemistry.
2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.
2024: Self portrait.