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||1184 BC: Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes. | ||1184 BC: Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes. | ||
File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1644: Physicist and mathematician [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] | File:Evangelista Torricelli by Lorenzo Lippi.jpg|link=Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|1644: Physicist and mathematician [[Evangelista Torricelli (nonfiction)|Evangelista Torricelli]] writes in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: ''Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria'' ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air"). | ||
||1665: Kenelm Digby dies ... astrologer, courtier, and diplomat. Powder of sympathy. Pic. | ||1665: Kenelm Digby dies ... astrologer, courtier, and diplomat. Powder of sympathy. Pic. | ||
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||1910: Jacques Cousteau born ... biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung. Pic. | ||1910: Jacques Cousteau born ... biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung. Pic. | ||
||1912: Bruno von Freytag-Löringhoff born ... philosopher, mathematician and epistemologist.[1] He was also a university lecturer at the University of Tübingen. During World War II, Freytag-Löringhoff worked as a mathematician in the In 7/VI, that was the signals intelligence agency of the Wehrmacht and worked with Fritz Menzer on the testing of cryptographic devices and procedures. Freytag-Löringhoff worked specifically on the testing of the m-40 cipher machine. His most important contributions to the history of logic and mathematics was his studies and descriptions from 1957, of the calculating machine, built by Wilhelm Schickard. Pic. | |||
||1915: Eduard Riecke dies ... experimental physicist. Pic. | ||1915: Eduard Riecke dies ... experimental physicist. Pic. | ||
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||1943: Henry Hill born ... mobster. Pic. | ||1943: Henry Hill born ... mobster. Pic. | ||
||1955: The Le Mans disaster occurred during the 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race at Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, France on 11 June 1955. A major crash caused large fragments of debris to fly into the crowd, killing 83 spectators and French driver Pierre Bouillin (who raced under the name Pierre Levegh) and injuring nearly 180 more. It was the most catastrophic crash in motorsport history, and it prompted Mercedes-Benz to retire from motor racing until 1989. | ||1955: The Le Mans disaster occurred during the 24 Hours of Le Mans motor race at Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, France on 11 June 1955. A major crash caused large fragments of debris to fly into the crowd, killing 83 spectators and French driver Pierre Bouillin (who raced under the name Pierre Levegh) and injuring nearly 180 more. It was the most catastrophic crash in motorsport history, and it prompted Mercedes-Benz to retire from motor racing until 1989. | ||
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||1957: Maurice Audin dies ... mathematics assistant at the University of Algiers, a member of the Algerian Communist Party and an activist in the anticolonialist cause, who was one of the "disappeared" during the Battle of Algiers. Pic. | ||1957: Maurice Audin dies ... mathematics assistant at the University of Algiers, a member of the Algerian Communist Party and an activist in the anticolonialist cause, who was one of the "disappeared" during the Battle of Algiers. Pic. | ||
||1965: Paul B. Coremans dies ... chemist and academic. WWII monuments. Pic search | ||1965: Paul B. Coremans dies ... chemist and academic. WWII monuments. Pic search. | ||
||1968: Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types. | ||1968: Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among different cell types. Pic. | ||
||1969: Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner dies ... engineer and a pioneer of sound-on-film technology. Pic. | ||1969: Joseph Tykociński-Tykociner dies ... engineer and a pioneer of sound-on-film technology. Pic. | ||
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||2008: The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit. | ||2008: The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit. | ||
||2014: Susan B. Horwitz dies ... computer scientist and academic ... noted for her research on programming languages and software engineering, and in particular on program slicing and dataflow-analysis. Pic search | ||2014: Susan B. Horwitz dies ... computer scientist and academic ... noted for her research on programming languages and software engineering, and in particular on program slicing and dataflow-analysis. Pic search. | ||
File: | File:Self portrait (11 June 2024) 20240611_203802.jpg|link=Self portrait (11 June 2024)|2024: '''[[Self portrait (11 June 2024)|Self portrait]]'''. | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:20, 11 June 2024
1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli writes in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.
1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
2024: Self portrait.