Template:Selected anniversaries/April 24: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 3: | Line 3: | ||
File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1870: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] [[Time travel (nonfiction)|time travel device]] to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Grigori Rasputin 1916.jpg|link=Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|1870: Mystic and faith healer [[Grigori Rasputin (nonfiction)|Grigori Rasputin]] [[Time travel (nonfiction)|time travel device]] to commit [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1890: [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel device]] develops self-awareness, visits [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]]. | File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1890: [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel device]] develops self-awareness, visits [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]]. | ||
File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)| | File:Franck Hertz Hg tube.jpg|link=Franck–Hertz experiment (nonfiction)|1914: The [[Franck–Hertz experiment (nonfiction)|Franck–Hertz experiment]], a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society. | ||
File:John_Fleming_in_Fleming_tube.jpg|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1915: Miniaturized version of [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] delivers lecture from within Fleming tube. | |||
File:Soyuz 1 patch.png|link=Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in [[Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|Soyuz 1]] when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission. | File:Soyuz 1 patch.png|link=Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in [[Soyuz 1 (nonfiction)|Soyuz 1]] when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission. | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
1899 – Oscar Zariski, Russian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1986) | 1899 – Oscar Zariski, Russian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1986) | ||
1919 – David Blackwell, American mathematician and academic (d. 2010) | 1919 – David Blackwell, American mathematician and academic (d. 2010) | ||
Revision as of 09:18, 2 April 2017
1656: Mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke dies. He introduced the modern names of the trigonometric functions tangent and secant.
1870: Mystic and faith healer Grigori Rasputin time travel device to commit crimes against mathematical constants.
1890: Time travel device develops self-awareness, visits John Ambrose Fleming.
1914: The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
1915: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1967: Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
1899 – Oscar Zariski, Russian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1986)
1919 – David Blackwell, American mathematician and academic (d. 2010)