Template:Selected anniversaries/January 29: Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 34: Line 34:
File:Asclepius Myrmidon in Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916: Scientist and combat surgeon [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Cherenkov radiation.
File:Asclepius Myrmidon in Advanced Test Reactor.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon|1916: Scientist and combat surgeon [[Asclepius Myrmidon]] demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Cherenkov radiation.


||1916 – World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
||1916: World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.


||1921 – Geraldine Pittman Woods, American science administrator and embryologist (d. 1999)
||1921: Geraldine Pittman Woods born ... science administrator and embryologist.


File:Abdus Salam 1987.jpg|link=Abdus Salam (nonfiction)|1926: Theoretical physicist [[Abdus Salam (nonfiction)|Mohammad Abdus Salam]] born. He will share the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.
File:Abdus Salam 1987.jpg|link=Abdus Salam (nonfiction)|1926: Theoretical physicist [[Abdus Salam (nonfiction)|Mohammad Abdus Salam]] born. He will share the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.


||1929 – Joseph Kruskal, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2010). No pic.
||1929: Joseph Kruskal, American mathematician and computer scientist (d. 2010). Pic: https://alchetron.com/Joseph-Kruskal


File:Paul Sally 2008.jpg|link=Paul Sally (nonfiction)|1933: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Sally (nonfiction)|Paul Sally]] born. He will be known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".
File:Paul Sally 2008.jpg|link=Paul Sally (nonfiction)|1933: Mathematician and academic [[Paul Sally (nonfiction)|Paul Sally]] born. He will be known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".
Line 46: Line 46:
File:Fritz Haber.png|link=Fritz Haber (nonfiction)|1934: Chemist [[Fritz Haber (nonfiction)|Fritz Haber]] dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.
File:Fritz Haber.png|link=Fritz Haber (nonfiction)|1934: Chemist [[Fritz Haber (nonfiction)|Fritz Haber]] dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.


||Thomas Tommasina (d. 29 January 1935) was an artist turned physicist who worked on atmospheric ionization and gravitational theories mainly after moving to Switzerland. An experimenter as well as a theoretician, he invented a radio-receiver-like device while studying ionospheric disturbances in the upper atmosphere and used it in long-range weather prediction.
||1935: Thomas Tommasina dies ... artist turned physicist who worked on atmospheric ionization and gravitational theories mainly after moving to Switzerland. An experimenter as well as a theoretician, he invented a radio-receiver-like device while studying ionospheric disturbances in the upper atmosphere and used it in long-range weather prediction.


File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1940: [[Alice Beta]] predicts that mathematician and computer scientist [[Andrzej Trybulec (nonfiction)|Andrzej Trybulec]] will make "incalculable contributions to the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]."
File:Alice Beta.jpg|link=Alice Beta|1940: [[Alice Beta]] predicts that mathematician and computer scientist [[Andrzej Trybulec (nonfiction)|Andrzej Trybulec]] will make "incalculable contributions to the detection and prevention of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]."
Line 52: Line 52:
File:Andrzej Trybulec.jpg|link=Andrzej Trybulec|1941: Mathematician and computer scientist [[Andrzej Trybulec (nonfiction)|Andrzej Trybulec]] born. He will develop the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.
File:Andrzej Trybulec.jpg|link=Andrzej Trybulec|1941: Mathematician and computer scientist [[Andrzej Trybulec (nonfiction)|Andrzej Trybulec]] born. He will develop the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.


||William Francis Gray Swann (d. January 29, 1962) was an Anglo-American physicist. No pic.
||1962: William Francis Gray Swann dies ... physicist. No pic.


File:Samuel Eilenberg 1970.jpg|link=Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|1970: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|Samuel Eilenberg]] applies the telescoping cancellation idea to projective [[Gnomon algorithm]] modules, revealing new techniques for detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  
File:Samuel Eilenberg 1970.jpg|link=Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|1970: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Samuel Eilenberg (nonfiction)|Samuel Eilenberg]] applies the telescoping cancellation idea to projective [[Gnomon algorithm]] modules, revealing new techniques for detecting and preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].  

Revision as of 07:22, 28 August 2018

  • 1688: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg born.

    1688: Astronomer, philosopher, theologian, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg born.

  • 1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear dies.

    1888: Artist, musician, author, and poet Edward Lear dies.

  • 1916: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Cherenkov radiation.

    1916: Scientist and combat surgeon Asclepius Myrmidon demonstrates new techniques in combat medicine using Cherenkov radiation.

  • 1926: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam born. He will share the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.

    1926: Theoretical physicist Mohammad Abdus Salam born. He will share the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics with Sheldon Glashow and Steven Weinberg for his contribution to the electroweak unification theory.

  • 1933: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally born. He will be known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".

    1933: Mathematician and academic Paul Sally born. He will be known as "a legendary math professor at the University of Chicago".

  • 1934: Chemist Fritz Haber dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.

    1934: Chemist Fritz Haber dies. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his invention of the Haber–Bosch process, a method used in industry to synthesize ammonia from nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas.

  • 1940: Alice Beta predicts that mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec will make "incalculable contributions to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants."

    1940: Alice Beta predicts that mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec will make "incalculable contributions to the detection and prevention of crimes against mathematical constants."

  • 1941: Mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec born. He will develop the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.

    1941: Mathematician and computer scientist Andrzej Trybulec born. He will develop the Mizar system: a formal language for writing mathematical definitions and proofs, a proof assistant which is able to mechanically check proofs written in this language, and a library of formalized mathematics which can be used in the proof of new theorems.

  • 1970: Mathematician and crime-fighter Samuel Eilenberg applies the telescoping cancellation idea to projective Gnomon algorithm modules, revealing new techniques for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1970: Mathematician and crime-fighter Samuel Eilenberg applies the telescoping cancellation idea to projective Gnomon algorithm modules, revealing new techniques for detecting and preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

Retrieved from "https://gnomonchronicles.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Selected_anniversaries/January_29&oldid=33664"