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||1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type. | |||
File:Jean-Baptiste Morin.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|1583: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]] born. | File:Jean-Baptiste Morin.jpg|link=Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|1583: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer [[Jean-Baptiste Morin (nonfiction)|Jean-Baptiste Morin]] born. | ||
||1603 – Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (b. 1519) | |||
||1603 – Franciscus Vieta, French mathematician (b. 1540) | |||
||1739 – At York Castle, the outlaw Dick Turpin is identified by his former schoolteacher. Turpin had been using the name Richard Palmer. | |||
File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1742: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to translate Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy into Italian. | File:Laura Bassi.jpg|link=Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|1742: Physicist and academic [[Laura Bassi (nonfiction)|Laura Bassi]] uses [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] to translate Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy into Italian. | ||
File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] dies. He had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians. | File:Carl Friedrich Gauss 1840 by Jensen.jpg|link=Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist [[Carl Friedrich Gauss (nonfiction)|Carl Friedrich Gauss]] dies. He had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians. | ||
||1886 – Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall. | |||
||1898 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus. | |||
||Jean-Gaston Darboux FAS MIF FRS FRSE (d. 23 February 1917) was a French mathematician. | |||
||1924 – Allan McLeod Cormack, South-African-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998) | |||
||1927 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States. | |||
File:Werner Heisenberg.jpg|link=Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|1927: German theoretical physicist [[Werner Heisenberg (nonfiction)|Werner Heisenberg]] writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time. | |||
File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1941: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] is first produced and isolated by [[Glenn T. Seaborg (nonfiction)|Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg]]. | |||
||1942 – World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the coastline near Santa Barbara, California. | |||
File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|1943: [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]] program accidentally generates new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:ENIAC Empty-Noise-Into Alien-Communication.jpg|link=ENIAC (SETI)|1943: [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]] program accidentally generates new class of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1944 – Leo Baekeland, Belgian-American chemist and engineer (b. 1863) | |||
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1964: ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] republished using latest [[high-energy literature]] techniques. | File:Vandal Savage Field Report Small Boy.jpg|link=Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|1964: ''Field Report Number One'' by [[Vandal Savage (nonfiction)|Vandal Savage Press]] republished using latest [[high-energy literature]] techniques. | ||
||1987 – Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud. | |||
||2012 – David Sayre, American physicist and mathematician (b. 1924) | |||
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Revision as of 22:03, 5 November 2017
1583: Mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer Jean-Baptiste Morin born.
1742: Physicist and academic Laura Bassi uses Gnomon algorithm functions to translate Newton's ideas of physics and natural philosophy into Italian.
1855: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Carl Friedrich Gauss dies. He had an exceptional influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is ranked as one of history's most influential mathematicians.
1927: German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1941: Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1943: ENIAC program accidentally generates new class of crimes against mathematical constants.
1964: Field Report Number One by Vandal Savage Press republished using latest high-energy literature techniques.