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||1719 | ||1719: Abraham Gotthelf Kästner born ... mathematician and epigrammatist. | ||
File:Hubert Gautier.jpg|link=Hubert Gautier (nonfiction)|1737: Mathematician and engineer [[Hubert Gautier (nonfiction)|Hubert Gautier]] dies. Gautier wrote several published works on engineering, civil engineering, and geology. | File:Hubert Gautier.jpg|link=Hubert Gautier (nonfiction)|1737: Mathematician and engineer [[Hubert Gautier (nonfiction)|Hubert Gautier]] dies. Gautier wrote several published works on engineering, civil engineering, and geology. | ||
||1783 | ||1783: Étienne Bézout dies ... mathematician and theorist. | ||
||1818 | ||1818: Hermann Kolbe born ... chemist and academic ... seminal contributor in the birth of modern organic chemistry. He was a Professor at Marburg and Leipzig. Kolbe coined the term synthesis and contributed to the philosophical demise of vitalism through synthesis of the organic substance acetic acid from carbon disulfide, and also contributed to the development of structural theory. | ||
||1822 | ||1822: Jean-François Champollion announces that he has deciphered the Rosetta Stone. | ||
||Bernard Courtois | ||1838: Bernard Courtois born ... chemist. | ||
||1843 | ||1843: Gaston Tarry born ... mathematician and academic. | ||
||Paul Appell | ||1855: Paul Appell bonr ... mathematician and Rector of the University of Paris. The concept of Appell polynomials is named after him. Pic | ||
File:Hans Hahn.jpg|link=Hans Hahn (nonfiction)|1879: Mathematician and philosopher [[Hans Hahn (nonfiction)|Hans Hahn]] born. He will make contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory. | File:Hans Hahn.jpg|link=Hans Hahn (nonfiction)|1879: Mathematician and philosopher [[Hans Hahn (nonfiction)|Hans Hahn]] born. He will make contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory. | ||
||Joseph Thomas Clover | ||1882: Joseph Thomas Clover dies ... doctor and pioneer of anaesthesia. He invented a variety of pieces of apparatus to deliver anaesthetics including ether and chloroform safely and controllably. By 1871 he had administered anaesthetics 13,000 times without a fatality. | ||
||1885 | ||1885: Harry Blackstone, Sr., born ... magician. | ||
||1905 | ||1905: The physics journal ''Annalen der Physik'' received Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", introducing the equation E=mc². | ||
||Wu Ta-You | ||1907: Wu Ta-You born ... atomic and nuclear theoretical physicist who worked in the United States, Canada, mainland China and Taiwan. He has been called the "Father of Chinese Physics." Pic. | ||
||Sidney Michael Dancoff | ||1913: Sidney Michael Dancoff born ... theoretical physicist best known for the Tamm–Dancoff approximation method and for nearly developing a renormalization method for solving quantum electrodynamics (QED). | ||
||1917 | ||1917: Carl Ballantine born ... magician and actor. | ||
||1918 | ||1918: Martin Ryle born ... astronomer and author, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1919 | ||1919: James H. Wilkinson born ... mathematician and computer scientist. | ||
|| | ||1928: Hans F. Weinberger born ... mathematician, known for his contributions to variational methods for eigenvalue problems, partial differential equations, and fluid dynamics. | ||
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge. | File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge. | ||
||1956 | ||1956: USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first man to exceed Mach 3 while flying the Bell X-2. Shortly thereafter, the craft goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed. | ||
File:Silent Spring by Rachel carson.jpg|link=Silent Spring (nonfiction)|1962: Rachel Carson's book ''[[Silent Spring (nonfiction)|Silent Spring]]'' is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. | File:Silent Spring by Rachel carson.jpg|link=Silent Spring (nonfiction)|1962: Rachel Carson's book ''[[Silent Spring (nonfiction)|Silent Spring]]'' is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. | ||
||Hubert Schardin Hermann Reinhold | ||1965: Hubert Schardin Hermann Reinhold dies ... ballistics expert, engineer and academic who studied in the field of high-speed photography and cinematography. Pic. | ||
||1972 | ||1972: S. R. Ranganathan dies ... mathematician, librarian, and academic. | ||
||1983 | ||1983: Richard Stallman announces the GNU Project to develop a free Unix-like operating system. | ||
||1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloonfest_'86 | ||1986: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloonfest_'86 | ||
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|File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|1935: [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] confirms that several recent "[[crimes against mathematical constants]]" are hoaxes. | |File:Hilbert_curve.gif|link=Hilbert Curve (nonfiction)|1935: [[Hilbert curve (nonfiction)|Hilbert curve]] confirms that several recent "[[crimes against mathematical constants]]" are hoaxes. | ||
||2003: SMART-1 satellite is launched. | |||
|| | ||2007: NASA launched the Dawn probe, its first purely exploratory mission to use ion propulsion, from Cape Canaveral. | ||
File:Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery|2017: The well-known illustration ''Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery'' sells for seven million dollars at charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery.jpg|link=Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery|2017: The well-known illustration ''Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery'' sells for seven million dollars at charity benefit for victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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Revision as of 17:16, 16 August 2018
1737: Mathematician and engineer Hubert Gautier dies. Gautier wrote several published works on engineering, civil engineering, and geology.
1879: Mathematician and philosopher Hans Hahn born. He will make contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1962: Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
2017: The well-known illustration Asclepius Myrmidon Prepares for Emergency Field Surgery sells for seven million dollars at charity benefit for victims of crimes against mathematical constants.