Template:Selected anniversaries/August 20: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 17:43, 15 August 2018

1672: Mathematician and politician Johan de Witt dies in a riot. The rioters will partially eat his body.
1923: Miniaturized version of John Ambrose Fleming delivers lecture from within Fleming tube.
1961: Physicist and academic Percy Williams Bridgman dies. He won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures.
1962: Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.

@@ Line 15: / Line 15: @@
 ||Octav Onicescu (b. August 20, 1892) was a Romanian mathematician, member of the Romanian Academy, and founder of the Romanian school of probability theory and statistics. Pic.
+||1898: Theoretical physicist Leopold Infeld born. After the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945 Infeld, like Einstein, became a peace activist. Because of his activities, he was unjustly accused of having communist sympathies. In the strongly anti-communist climate of the time many in the Canadian government and media feared that Infled would betray nuclear weapons secrets. He was stripped of his Canadian citizenship and was widely denounced as a traitor. In actuality, Infeld's field was the theory of relativity—not directly linked to nuclear weapons research.
 ||Salomon Bochner (b. 20 August 1899) was an American mathematician, known for work in mathematical analysis, probability theory and differential geometry.