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|| THEMES: Unabomber, social disruption | |||
File:Albertus Magnus.jpg|link=Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher [[Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|Albertus Magnus]] dies. He was known during his lifetime as ''doctor universalis'' and ''doctor expertus'' and, late in his life, the term ''magnus'' was appended to his name. | File:Albertus Magnus.jpg|link=Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher [[Albertus Magnus (nonfiction)|Albertus Magnus]] dies. He was known during his lifetime as ''doctor universalis'' and ''doctor expertus'' and, late in his life, the term ''magnus'' was appended to his name. | ||
File: | File:Johannes Kepler 1610.jpg|link=Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|1630: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)|Johannes Kepler]] born. He will discover laws of planetary motion. | ||
File: | File:William Herschel.jpg|link=William Herschel (nonfiction)|1738: Astronomer and composer [[William Herschel (nonfiction)|William Herschel]] born. Herschel discovered the planet Uranus and its two moons, formulated a theory of stellar evolution, and suggested that nebulae are composed of stars. | ||
||1793: Michel Chasles born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||1793: Michel Chasles born ... mathematician and academic. Pic. | ||
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||1888: Harald Sverdrup born ... meteorologist and oceanographer known for his studies of the physics, chemistry, and biology of the oceans. He explained the equatorial countercurrents and helped develop the method of predicting surf and breakers. As scientific director of Roald Amundsen's polar expedition on Maud (1918-1925), Sverdrup worked extensively on meteorology, magnetics, atmospheric electricity, physical oceanography, and tidal dynamics on the Siberian shelf, and even on the anthropology of Chukchi natives. In 1953, Sverdrup quantified the concept of "critical depth", explaining the onset of the spring phytoplankton bloom in newly stratified water columns. Pic. | ||1888: Harald Sverdrup born ... meteorologist and oceanographer known for his studies of the physics, chemistry, and biology of the oceans. He explained the equatorial countercurrents and helped develop the method of predicting surf and breakers. As scientific director of Roald Amundsen's polar expedition on Maud (1918-1925), Sverdrup worked extensively on meteorology, magnetics, atmospheric electricity, physical oceanography, and tidal dynamics on the Siberian shelf, and even on the anthropology of Chukchi natives. In 1953, Sverdrup quantified the concept of "critical depth", explaining the onset of the spring phytoplankton bloom in newly stratified water columns. Pic. | ||
||1894: Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin born ... mathematician who made major contributions to the fields of general topology and descriptive set theory. His name is especially associated to Suslin's problem, a question relating to totally ordered sets. Pic. | |||
||1894: Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin born ... mathematician who made major contributions to the fields of general topology and descriptive set theory. His name is especially associated to Suslin's problem, a question relating to totally ordered sets | |||
||1896: Horia Hulubei born ... nuclear physicist, known for his contributions to the development of X-ray spectroscopy. Pic. | ||1896: Horia Hulubei born ... nuclear physicist, known for his contributions to the development of X-ray spectroscopy. Pic. | ||
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||1979: A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. | ||1979: A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing. | ||
||1979: Art historian Anthony Blunt's wartime role as a Soviet spy is revealed in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. | ||1979: Art historian Anthony Blunt's wartime role as a Soviet spy is revealed in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Pic. | ||
File:Walter_Heitler.jpg|link=Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|1981: Physicist and chemist [[Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|Walter Heinrich Heitler]] dies. He made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, bringing chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding. | File:Walter_Heitler.jpg|link=Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|1981: Physicist and chemist [[Walter Heitler (nonfiction)|Walter Heinrich Heitler]] dies. He made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, bringing chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding. | ||
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||1990: Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38. | ||1990: Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38. | ||
||2010: Larry Evans born ... chess player and journalist. Pic. | |||
||2015: Lauri Vaska dies ... chemist and academic. Vaska contributed to the coordination chemistry of transition metals, homogeneous catalysis, and both organometallic and bioinorganic chemistry. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=lauri+vaska | ||2015: Lauri Vaska dies ... chemist and academic. Vaska contributed to the coordination chemistry of transition metals, homogeneous catalysis, and both organometallic and bioinorganic chemistry. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=lauri+vaska | ||
File:Phagey the Extract of Radium mascot.png|link=Extract of Radium|2015: [[Extract of Radium]] installs | File:Phagey the Extract of Radium mascot.png|link=Extract of Radium|2015: [[Extract of Radium]] installs transdimensional vending machines at all San Francisco Muni stations. | ||
File:San Francisco Muni worm logo.png|link=San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|2016: [[San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|San Francisco Muni hack]] begins, data held hostage for ransom. | File:San Francisco Muni worm logo.png|link=San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|2016: [[San Francisco Muni hack (nonfiction)|San Francisco Muni hack]] begins, data held hostage for ransom. | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:09, 7 February 2022
1280: Bishop, theologian, and philosopher Albertus Magnus dies. He was known during his lifetime as doctor universalis and doctor expertus and, late in his life, the term magnus was appended to his name.
1630: Mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer Johannes Kepler born. He will discover laws of planetary motion.
1738: Astronomer and composer William Herschel born. Herschel discovered the planet Uranus and its two moons, formulated a theory of stellar evolution, and suggested that nebulae are composed of stars.
1981: Physicist and chemist Walter Heinrich Heitler dies. He made contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, bringing chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.
2015: Extract of Radium installs transdimensional vending machines at all San Francisco Muni stations.
2016: San Francisco Muni hack begins, data held hostage for ransom.