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File:Jan Kanty.jpg|link=John Cantius (nonfiction)|1390: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian [[John Cantius (nonfiction)|John Cantius]] born. He will help develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton. | File:Jan Kanty.jpg|link=John Cantius (nonfiction)|1390: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian [[John Cantius (nonfiction)|John Cantius]] born. He will help develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton. | ||
||1612: André Tacquet born ... mathematician and Jesuit priest. Tacquet adhered to the methods of the geometry of Euclid and the philosophy of Aristotle and opposed the method of indivisibles. Pic: book cover. | ||1612: André Tacquet born ... mathematician and Jesuit priest. Tacquet adhered to the methods of the geometry of Euclid and the philosophy of Aristotle and opposed the method of indivisibles. Pic: book cover. | ||
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File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1912: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] born. He will be influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the [[Turing machine (nonfiction)|Turing machine]]. | File:Alan Turing (1930s).jpg|link=Alan Turing (nonfiction)|1912: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist [[Alan Turing (nonfiction)|Alan Turing]] born. He will be influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the [[Turing machine (nonfiction)|Turing machine]]. | ||
||1915: Frances Gabe born ... artist and inventor ... self-cleaning house. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=frances+gabe | ||1915: Frances Gabe born ... artist and inventor ... self-cleaning house. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=frances+gabe | ||
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||1941: Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness born ... historian of mathematics and logic. Pic. | ||1941: Ivor Owen Grattan-Guinness born ... historian of mathematics and logic. Pic. | ||
||1945: Refah tragedy (Turkish: Refah faciası) was a maritime disaster that took place during World War II, in June 1941, when the cargo steamer Refah of neutral Turkey, carrying Turkish military personnel from Mersin in Turkey to Port Said, Egypt, was sunk in eastern Mediterranean waters by a torpedo fired from an unidentified submarine. Of the 200 passengers and crew aboard, only 32 survived. Pic. | |||
File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1959: Convicted Manhattan Project spy [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career. | File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1959: Convicted Manhattan Project spy [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career. | ||
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||2014: Mathematician and academic Joachim "Jim" Lambek dies. Pic. | ||2014: Mathematician and academic Joachim "Jim" Lambek dies. Pic. | ||
||2016: Stanley Mandelstam dies ... theoretical physicist. He introduced the relativistically invariant Mandelstam variables into particle physics in 1958 as a convenient coordinate system for formulating his double dispersion relations. The double dispersion relations were a central tool in the bootstrap program which sought to formulate a consistent theory of infinitely many particle types of increasing spin. Pic seach: https://www.google.com/search?q=stanley+mandelstam | ||2016: Stanley Mandelstam dies ... theoretical physicist. He introduced the relativistically invariant Mandelstam variables into particle physics in 1958 as a convenient coordinate system for formulating his double dispersion relations. The double dispersion relations were a central tool in the bootstrap program which sought to formulate a consistent theory of infinitely many particle types of increasing spin. Pic seach: https://www.google.com/search?q=stanley+mandelstam | ||
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Latest revision as of 19:21, 6 February 2022
1390: Priest, philosopher, physicist, and theologian John Cantius born. He will help develop Jean Buridan's theory of impetus, anticipating the work of Galileo and Newton.
1912: Computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst and theoretical biologist Alan Turing born. He will be influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine.
1959: Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
1972: Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon and White House Chief of Staff H. R. Haldeman are taped talking about using the Central Intelligence Agency to obstruct the Federal Bureau of Investigation's investigation into the Watergate break-ins.