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||1571: Hippolytus Guarinonius born ... physician and polymath. Pic.
||1571: Hippolytus Guarinonius born ... physician and polymath. Pic.


||1647 – Pierre Bayle, French philosopher and author (d. 1706). Pic.
||1647: Pierre Bayle born ... philosopher and author. Pic.


File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1724: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] dies.
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1724: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]] dies.


||1727 – Philibert Commerson, French physician and explorer (d. 1773). Pic.
||1727: Philibert Commerson born ... physician and explorer. Pic.


||1787 – Louis Daguerre, French physicist and photographer, developed the daguerreotype (d. 1851). Pic.
||1787: Louis Daguerre born ... physicist and photographer, developed the daguerreotype. Pic.


||1830 – Adam Weishaupt, German philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati (b. 1748). Pic.
||1830: Adam Weishaupt dies ... philosopher and academic, founded the Illuminati. Pic.


File:Johannes Bosscha.jpg|link=Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist [[Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|Johannes Bosscha Jr.]] born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.
File:Johannes Bosscha.jpg|link=Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|1831: Physicist [[Johannes Bosscha (nonfiction)|Johannes Bosscha Jr.]] born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.
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||1832: Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ... Finnish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists. Pic.
||1832: Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld ... Finnish baron, geologist, mineralogist and Arctic explorer. He was a member of the prominent Finland-Swedish Nordenskiöld family of scientists. Pic.


||1839 – August Kundt, German physicist and educator (d. 1894). Pic.
||1839: August Kundt born ... physicist and educator. Pic.


||Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin (b. November 18, 1844) was a German mathematician. Pic.
||1844: Friedrich Heinrich Albert Wangerin born ... mathematician. Pic.


||1865 – Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in the New York Saturday Press.
File:Mark Twain by Abdullah Frères, 1867.jpg|link=Mark Twain (nonfiction)|1865: [[Mark Twain (nonfiction)|Mark Twain]]'s short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in ''The Saturday Press''.


File:Georg Hermann Quincke.jpg|link=|1866: Physicist and crime-fighter [[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 chemistry]].
File:Georg Hermann Quincke.jpg|link=|1866: Physicist and crime-fighter [[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 chemistry]].


||Gustav Theodor Fechner (d. 18 November 1887), was a German philosopher, physicist and experimental psychologist. An early pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics, he inspired many 20th century scientists and philosophers. He is also credited with demonstrating the non-linear relationship between psychological sensation and the physical intensity of a stimulus via the formula: {\displaystyle S=K\ln I} {\displaystyle S=K\ln I}, which became known as the Weber–Fechner law. Pic.
||1887: Gustav Theodor Fechner dies ... philosopher, physicist and experimental psychologist. An early pioneer in experimental psychology and founder of psychophysics, he inspired many 20th century scientists and philosophers. He is also credited with demonstrating the non-linear relationship between psychological sensation and the physical intensity of a stimulus via the formula: {\displaystyle S=K\ln I} {\displaystyle S=K\ln I}, which became known as the Weber–Fechner law. Pic.


||Attilio Palatini (b. 18 November 1889) was an Italian mathematician born in Treviso. He worked in absolute differential calculus and in general relativity. Within this latter subject he gave a sound generalization of the variational principle. Pic.
||1889: Attilio Palatini dies ... mathematician born in Treviso. He worked in absolute differential calculus and in general relativity. Within this latter subject he gave a sound generalization of the variational principle. Pic.


||1897 – Patrick Blackett, Baron Blackett, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1974)
||1897: Patrick Blackett born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky (b. November 18, 1900) was a Ukrainian-American physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor. Pic.
||1900: George Bogdanovich Kistiakowsky born ... physical chemistry professor at Harvard who participated in the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Science Advisor. Pic.


||1901 – George Gallup, American statistician and academic (d. 1984)
||1901: George Gallup born ... statistician and academic.


||1906 – George Wald, American neurobiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
||1906: George Wald born ... neurobiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||Alessandro Faedo (B. 18 November 1913) (also known as Alessandro Carlo Faedo or Sandro Faedo) was an Italian mathematician and politician, born in Chiampo. He is known for his work in numerical analysis, leading to the Faedo–Galerkin method: he was one of the pupils of Leonida Tonelli and, after his death, he succeeded him on the chair of mathematical analysis at the University of Pisa, becoming dean of the faculty of sciences and then rector and exerting a strong positive influence on the development of the university.
||1913: Alessandro Faedo born ... mathematician and politician, born in Chiampo. He is known for his work in numerical analysis, leading to the Faedo–Galerkin method: he was one of the pupils of Leonida Tonelli and, after his death, he succeeded him on the chair of mathematical analysis at the University of Pisa, becoming dean of the faculty of sciences and then rector and exerting a strong positive influence on the development of the university.


||1919: Mathematician [[Adolf Hurwitz (nonfiction)|Adolf Hurwitz]] died.  He worked on algebra, analysis, geometry and number theory.
||1919: Mathematician [[Adolf Hurwitz (nonfiction)|Adolf Hurwitz]] died.  He worked on algebra, analysis, geometry and number theory.


||Lucien Marie Le Cam (b. November 18, 1924) was a mathematician and statistician. Pic.  
||1924: Lucien Marie Le Cam born ... mathematician and statistician. Pic.  


||Dennis William Siahou Sciama, FRS (b. 18 November 1926) was a British physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology.
||1926: Dennis William Siahou Sciama born ... physicist who, through his own work and that of his students, played a major role in developing British physics after the Second World War. He is considered one of the fathers of modern cosmology.


||1928: Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
||1928: Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.
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||1978: In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
||1978: In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
||1994: Nathan Jacob Fine ies ... mathematician who worked on basic hypergeometric series. He solved the Jeep problem in 1946. Pic: http://www.ams.org/notices/199506/fine.pdf


||2004: Robert Bacher dies ... physicist and academic.
||2004: Robert Bacher dies ... physicist and academic.

Revision as of 09:49, 14 September 2018

  • 1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.

    1724: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão dies.

  • 1831: Physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.

    1831: Physicist Johannes Bosscha Jr. born. He will make important investigations on galvanic polarization and the rapidity of sound waves; he will be one of the first (1855) to suggest the possibility of sending two messages simultaneously over the same wire.

  • 1865: Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in The Saturday Press.

    1865: Mark Twain's short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is published in The Saturday Press.

  • 1866: Physicist and crime-fighter Georg Hermann Quincke uses the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.

    1866: Physicist and crime-fighter Georg Hermann Quincke uses the influence of electric forces upon the constants of different forms of matter to detect and prevent crimes against chemistry.

  • 1959: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.

    1959: Mathematician and academic Aleksandr Khinchin dies. He was one of the founders of modern probability theory.

  • 1962: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

    1962: Physicist and philosopher Niels Bohr born. He will make foundational contributions to understanding atomic structure and quantum theory, for which he will receive the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.

  • 2013: NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.

    2013: NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.

  • 2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the MAVEN probe to Mars.

    2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates fourth anniversary of NASA launching the MAVEN probe to Mars.

  • 2018: Steganographic analysis of Cowries reveals "at least three hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

    2018: Steganographic analysis of Cowries reveals "at least three hundred kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.

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