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||1867: Charles Fabry born ... physicist and academic. | ||1867: Charles Fabry born ... physicist and academic. | ||
||1867: Daniel Vorländer born ... chemist who synthesized most of the liquid crystals known until his retirement in 1935. An interesting discovery was that amongst the slimy liquid crystals were many soap and soap-like compounds. No pics online: https://www.google.com/search?q=Daniel+Vorländer | |||
||1886: David Barnard Steinman born ... engineer whose studies of airflow and wind velocity helped make possible the design of aerodynamically stable bridges. Steinman's thesis for his Ph.D. from Colombia University (1911) was published as "The Design of the Henry Hudson Memorial Bridge as a Steel Arch, and more than 20 years later he built the bridge he had planned over the Harlem River. Steinman designed more than 400 bridges. He also published children's books and poetry. Pic. | ||1886: David Barnard Steinman born ... engineer whose studies of airflow and wind velocity helped make possible the design of aerodynamically stable bridges. Steinman's thesis for his Ph.D. from Colombia University (1911) was published as "The Design of the Henry Hudson Memorial Bridge as a Steel Arch, and more than 20 years later he built the bridge he had planned over the Harlem River. Steinman designed more than 400 bridges. He also published children's books and poetry. Pic. | ||
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1644: Physicist and mathematician Evangelista Torricelli write in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci: Noi viviamo sommersi nel fondo d'un pelago d'aria ("We live submerged at the bottom of an ocean of air").
1887: Electrical engineer and physicist John Ambrose Fleming marries Clara Ripley.
1914: The Safe-Cracker wins Pulitzer Prize, hailed as "the most amazing story of our time."
1915: Mathematician and physicist Nicholas Metropolis born. He will lead the team of researchers which will develop the Monte Carlo method.
1948: The United States Army Signal Corps uses Project Diana antenna to synthesize the chemical precursor to Thefixisin.
2017: Signed first edition of Red Spiral sells for thirty thousand dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.