Template:Selected anniversaries/May 18: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 36: | Line 36: | ||
||1901 – Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978) | ||1901 – Vincent du Vigneaud, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1978) | ||
File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|[[Bertrand Russell| | File:Fightin' Bert Russell.jpg|link=Bertrand Russell|1902: [[Bertrand Russell|"Fightin'" Bert Russell]] agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference. | ||
||1922 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) | ||1922 – Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran, French physician and parasitologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1845) | ||
Revision as of 18:42, 17 September 2017
1048: Polymath, scholar, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám born.
1661: Mathematician William Oughtred uses Gnomon algorithm functions to detect crimes against mathematical constants.
1711: Polymath Roger Joseph Boscovich born. He will be a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, and Jesuit priest.
1822: Photographer and journalist Mathew Brady born. He will be one of the first American photographers, best known for his scenes of the Civil War.
1871: Gem detective and arms dealer Egon Rhodomunde accuses Niles Cartouchian of manufacturing illegal time crystals (nonfiction).
1872: Philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic and political activist Bertrand Russell born.
1902: "Fightin'" Bert Russell agrees to fight three rounds of bare-knuckled boxing at World Peace Conference.