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File:Pierre Bouguer.jpg|link=Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|1758: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer [[Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|Pierre Bouguer]] dies. He is known as "the father of naval architecture".
File:Pierre Bouguer.jpg|link=Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|1758: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer [[Pierre Bouguer (nonfiction)|Pierre Bouguer]] dies. He is known as "the father of naval architecture".


||Edward Waring FRS (d. 15 August 1798) was a British mathematician. He made the assertion known as Waring's problem without proof in his writings Meditationes Algebraicae. Pic.
||1798: Edward Waring dies ...was a British mathematician. He made the assertion known as Waring's problem without proof in his writings Meditationes Algebraicae. Pic.


File:Alexey Krylov 1910s.jpg|link=Aleksey Krylov (nonfiction)|1863: Mathematician and naval engineer [[Aleksey Krylov (nonfiction)|Aleksey Krylov]] born. Fame will come to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship becomes internationally known.  
File:Alexey Krylov 1910s.jpg|link=Aleksey Krylov (nonfiction)|1863: Mathematician and naval engineer [[Aleksey Krylov (nonfiction)|Aleksey Krylov]] born. Fame will come to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship becomes internationally known.  


||1758 – Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (b. 1698). Pic.
||1758: Pierre Bouguer, French mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer (b. 1698). Pic.


||Sir William Augustus Tilden (b. 15 August 1842) was a British chemist. He discovered that isoprene could be made from turpentine. Pic.
||1795: Émile Léger born ... mathematician ... only published four papers on mathematics,[1] but one of them seems to be the first to recognize the worst case in the euclidean algorithm: when the inputs are proportional to consecutive Fibonacci numbers.. No pic, but interesting life: he helped defend Paris during the Hundred Days of Napoleon in March 1815, and was decorated for bravery.


||1852 – Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist (b. 1760). Pic: stamp.
||1842: Sir William Augustus Tilden born ... a British chemist. He discovered that isoprene could be made from turpentine. Pic.
 
||1852: Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist, physicist, and mineralogist dies. Pic: stamp.


File:Robert Bunsen.jpg|link=Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|1888: Chemist and crime-fighter [[Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|Robert Bunsen]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on the emission spectra of heated elements which detect and prevent [[crimes against chemistry]].
File:Robert Bunsen.jpg|link=Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|1888: Chemist and crime-fighter [[Robert Bunsen (nonfiction)|Robert Bunsen]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on the emission spectra of heated elements which detect and prevent [[crimes against chemistry]].


||Elias Loomis (d. August 15, 1889) was an American mathematician. Pic.
||1889: Elias Loomis dies ... mathematician. Pic.


File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|1891: Signed first edition of ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' sells for ninety thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess.jpg|link=Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess|1891: Signed first edition of ''[[Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess]]'' sells for ninety thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1892: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] born.  He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.
File:Louis de Broglie.jpg|link=Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|1892: Physicist and academic [[Louis de Broglie (nonfiction)|Louis de Broglie]] born.  He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.


||Gerty Theresa Cori (b. August 15, 1896) was a Jewish Czech-American biochemist who became the third woman—and first American woman—to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Pic.
||1896: Gerty Theresa Cori born ... a Jewish Czech-American biochemist who became the third woman—and first American woman—to win a Nobel Prize in science, and the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Pic.


||1901 – Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1975). Pic.
||1901: Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician and theorist (d. 1975). Pic.


||John Kerr FRS (d. 15 August 1907) was a Scottish physicist and a pioneer in the field of electro-optics. He is best known for the discovery of what is now called the Kerr effect. Pic.
||1906: Eugene Schieffelin dies ... belonged to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the New York Zoological Society. He was responsible for introducing the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) to North America. No pic.


||Eugene Schieffelin (d. 15 August 1906) belonged to the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society and the New York Zoological Society. He was responsible for introducing the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) to North America. No pic.
||1907: John Kerr ... a Scottish physicist and a pioneer in the field of electro-optics. He is best known for the discovery of what is now called the Kerr effect. Pic.


||1914 – Paul Rand, American graphic designer and art director (d. 1996)
||1914: Paul Rand, American graphic designer and art director (d. 1996)


||1915 – A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
||1915: A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.


||Hans Friedrich Geitel (d. 15 August 1923 in Wolfenbüttel) was a German physicist.
||Hans Friedrich Geitel (d. 15 August 1923 in Wolfenbüttel) was a German physicist.
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File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|1946: Signed first edition of ''Janet Beta at ENIAC'' stolen from the Library of Congress.
File:Janet Beta at ENIAC.jpg|link=Janet Beta at ENIAC|1946: Signed first edition of ''Janet Beta at ENIAC'' stolen from the Library of Congress.


||Sidney Michael Dancoff (d. August 15, 1951 in Urbana, Illinois) was an American theoretical physicist best known for the Tamm–Dancoff approximation method and for nearly developing a renormalization method for solving quantum electrodynamics (QED).
||1951: Sidney Michael Dancoff dies ... an American theoretical physicist best known for the Tamm–Dancoff approximation method and for nearly developing a renormalization method for solving quantum electrodynamics (QED).


||1953 – Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist and engineer (b. 1875)
||1953: Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist and engineer (b. 1875)


||1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
||1971: President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.


File:Wow signal.jpg|link=Wow! signal (nonfiction)|1977: The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "[[Wow! signal (nonfiction)|Wow! signal]]" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
File:Wow signal.jpg|link=Wow! signal (nonfiction)|1977: The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "[[Wow! signal (nonfiction)|Wow! signal]]" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
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||1984: Lake Monoun limnic eruption: West Province, Cameroon: the lake exploded in a limnic eruption, which resulted in the release of a large amount of carbon dioxide that killed 37 people. At first, the cause of the deaths was a mystery, and causes such as terrorism were suspected. Further investigation and a similar event two years later at Lake Nyos led to the currently accepted explanation.
||1984: Lake Monoun limnic eruption: West Province, Cameroon: the lake exploded in a limnic eruption, which resulted in the release of a large amount of carbon dioxide that killed 37 people. At first, the cause of the deaths was a mystery, and causes such as terrorism were suspected. Further investigation and a similar event two years later at Lake Nyos led to the currently accepted explanation.


||2001 – Kateryna Yushchenko, Ukrainian computer scientist ad academic (b. 1919)
||2001: Kateryna Yushchenko, Ukrainian computer scientist ad academic (b. 1919)


||Peter Mazur (d. 2001) was an Austrian-born, Dutch physicist and one of the founders of the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. He is the father of Harvard University physics professor Eric Mazur.
||2001: Peter Mazur ... an Austrian-born, Dutch physicist and one of the founders of the field of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. He is the father of Harvard University physics professor Eric Mazur.


||India: Three die as kite string slits their throats ... http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37103668 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manja_(kite)
||India: Three die as kite string slits their throats ... http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-37103668 ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manja_(kite)


File:Umberto Eco 1984.jpg|link=Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|2015: Author, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|Umberto Eco]] publishes influential monograph on the origins and early development of [[high-energy literature]].
File:Umberto Eco 1984.jpg|link=Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|2015: Author, philosopher, and crime-fighter [[Umberto Eco (nonfiction)|Umberto Eco]] publishes influential monograph on the origins and early development of [[high-energy literature]].


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Revision as of 18:01, 14 August 2018

  • 1758: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer dies. He is known as "the father of naval architecture".

    1758: Mathematician, geophysicist, and astronomer Pierre Bouguer dies. He is known as "the father of naval architecture".

  • 1863: Mathematician and naval engineer Aleksey Krylov born. Fame will come to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship becomes internationally known.

    1863: Mathematician and naval engineer Aleksey Krylov born. Fame will come to him in the 1890s, when his pioneering theory of oscillating motions of the ship becomes internationally known.

  • 1888: Chemist and crime-fighter Robert Bunsen publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on the emission spectra of heated elements which detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.

    1888: Chemist and crime-fighter Robert Bunsen publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on the emission spectra of heated elements which detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.

  • 1891: Signed first edition of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess sells for ninety thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1891: Signed first edition of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess sells for ninety thousand dollars at charity benefit auction for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1892: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie born. He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.

    1892: Physicist and academic Louis de Broglie born. He will postulate the wave nature of electrons and suggest that all matter has wave properties, winning the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behavior of matter is first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.

  • 1946: Signed first edition of Janet Beta at ENIAC stolen from the Library of Congress.

    1946: Signed first edition of Janet Beta at ENIAC stolen from the Library of Congress.

  • 1977: The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.

    1977: The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.

  • 2015: Author, philosopher, and crime-fighter Umberto Eco publishes influential monograph on the origins and early development of high-energy literature.

    2015: Author, philosopher, and crime-fighter Umberto Eco publishes influential monograph on the origins and early development of high-energy literature.

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