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||1577 – Jan Baptist van Helmont, Flemish chemist and physician (d. 1644)
||1577: Jan Baptist van Helmont born ... chemist and physician.


File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1665: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] dies. He is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of [[Calculus (nonfiction)|differential calculus]], then unknown.
File:Pierre de Fermat.jpg|link=Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|1665: Mathematician [[Pierre de Fermat (nonfiction)|Pierre de Fermat]] dies. He is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of [[Calculus (nonfiction)|differential calculus]], then unknown.


||1777 – Hugh Mercer, Scottish-American general and physician (b. 1726)
||1777: Hugh Mercer born ... general and physician.


||1792 – Johan August Arfwedson, Swedish chemist and academic (d. 1841)
||1792: Johan August Arfwedson born ... chemist and academic.


||1822 – Étienne Lenoir, Belgian engineer, designed the internal combustion engine (d. 1900)
||1822: Étienne Lenoir born ... engineer, designed the internal combustion engine.


||Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro (b. 12 January 1853) was an Italian mathematician born in Lugo di Romagna. He is most famous as the inventor of tensor calculus.
||1853: Gregorio Ricci-Curbastro born ... mathematician born in Lugo di Romagna. He is most famous as the inventor of tensor calculus.


||Knut Johan Ångström (b. 12 January 1857) was a Swedish physicist.  He investigated the radiation of heat from the sun, and terrestrial nocturnal emission and its absorption by the Earth's atmosphere; to that end devised various delicate methods and instruments, including his electric compensation pyrheliometer, invented in 1893, apparatus for obtaining a photographic representation of the infra-red spectrum (1895) and pyrgeometer (circa 1905) Pic.
||1857: Knut Johan Ångström born ... physicist.  He investigated the radiation of heat from the sun, and terrestrial nocturnal emission and its absorption by the Earth's atmosphere; to that end devised various delicate methods and instruments, including his electric compensation pyrheliometer, invented in 1893, apparatus for obtaining a photographic representation of the infra-red spectrum (1895) and pyrgeometer (circa 1905) Pic.


||James Mark Baldwin (b. January 12, 1861) was an American philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh and who was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at the university. He made important contributions to early psychology, psychiatry, and to the theory of evolution. Pic.
||1861: James Mark Baldwin born ... philosopher and psychologist who was educated at Princeton under the supervision of Scottish philosopher James McCosh and who was one of the founders of the Department of Psychology at the university. He made important contributions to early psychology, psychiatry, and to the theory of evolution. Pic.


||1866 – The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
||1866: The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.


File:Jacquard loom with two children and a dog (circa 1877).jpg|link=Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|1875: Children reprogram [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]] to perform [[scrying engine]] functions.
File:Jacquard loom with two children and a dog (circa 1877).jpg|link=Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|1875: Children reprogram [[Jacquard loom (nonfiction)|Jacquard loom]] to perform [[scrying engine]] functions.
||1876 – Jack London, American novelist and journalist (d. 1916)


File:Jack London 1903.jpg|link=Jack London (nonfiction)|1876: Author [[Jack London (nonfiction)|Jack London]] born. He will become one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.
File:Jack London 1903.jpg|link=Jack London (nonfiction)|1876: Author [[Jack London (nonfiction)|Jack London]] born. He will become one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.


||David Raymond Curtiss (b. January 12, 1878) was an American mathematician. He served as president of the Mathematical Association of America from 1935 to 1936.
||1878: David Raymond Curtiss born ... mathematician. He served as president of the Mathematical Association of America from 1935 to 1936.
 
||1899 – Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
 
File:Georg Hermann Quincke.jpg|link=Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|1900: Physicist and academic [[Georg Hermann Quincke (nonfiction)|Georg Hermann Quincke]] uses the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


|File:Wild Man in Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.jpg|link=Time travel (nonfiction)|1901: [[Time travel (nonfiction)|Time travel chamber]] publishes autobiography.
||1899: Paul Hermann Müller born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1903 – Igor Kurchatov, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1960)
||1903: Igor Kurchatov born ... physicist and academic.


||Kurt August Hirsch (b. January 12, 1906) was a German mathematician
||1906: Kurt August Hirsch born ... mathematician.


||Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (b. 12 January 1907) worked as the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He is regarded by many as the father of practical astronautics. Pic.
||1907: Sergei Pavlovich Korolev ... Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 1960s. He is regarded by many as the father of practical astronautics. Pic.


||1908 – Clement Hurd, American illustrator (d. 1988)
||1908: Clement Hurd born ... illustrator.


||1908 – A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
||1908: A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.


File:Hermann Minkowski.jpg|link=Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|1909: Mathematician and academic [[Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|Hermann Minkowski]] dies. He showed that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".
File:Hermann Minkowski.jpg|link=Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|1909: Mathematician and academic [[Hermann Minkowski (nonfiction)|Hermann Minkowski]] dies. He showed that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".


||Herbert Ellis Robbins (b. January 12, 1915) was an American mathematician and statistician. He did research in topology, measure theory, statistics, and a variety of other fields. The Robbins lemma, used in empirical Bayes methods, is named after him. Robbins algebras are named after him because of a conjecture (since proved) that he posed concerning Boolean algebras. The Robbins theorem, in graph theory, is also named after him, as is the Whitney–Robbins synthesis, a tool he introduced to prove this theorem.  Pic.
||1915: Herbert Ellis Robbins born ... mathematician and statistician. He did research in topology, measure theory, statistics, and a variety of other fields. The Robbins lemma, used in empirical Bayes methods, is named after him. Robbins algebras are named after him because of a conjecture (since proved) that he posed concerning Boolean algebras. The Robbins theorem, in graph theory, is also named after him, as is the Whitney–Robbins synthesis, a tool he introduced to prove this theorem.  Pic.
 
||1916 – Ruth R. Benerito, American chemist and inventor (d. 2013)


||1929 – Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher and logician (d. 2015)
||1916: Ruth R. Benerito born ... chemist and inventor.


|File:Neon lighting Ne symbol.jpg|link=Neon lighting (nonfiction)|1932: [[Neon lighting (nonfiction)|Neon lighting]] says that it "enjoys the work," calls itself "the luckiest of technologies" for a life spent converting [[Electricity (nonfiction)|electricity]] into [[Light (nonfiction)|light]].
||1929: Jaakko Hintikka born ... philosopher and logician.


||1942: World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
||1942: World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.

Revision as of 09:58, 24 August 2018

  • 1665: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat dies. He is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown.

    1665: Mathematician Pierre de Fermat dies. He is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown.

  • 1875: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to perform scrying engine functions.

    1875: Children reprogram Jacquard loom to perform scrying engine functions.

  • 1876: Author Jack London born. He will become one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.

    1876: Author Jack London born. He will become one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone.

  • 1909: Mathematician and academic Hermann Minkowski dies. He showed that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".

    1909: Mathematician and academic Hermann Minkowski dies. He showed that Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity can be understood geometrically as a theory of four-dimensional space–time, since known as the "Minkowski spacetime".

  • 2005: Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket. It will be the first spacecraft to eject material from a comet's surface.

    2005: Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket. It will be the first spacecraft to eject material from a comet's surface.

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