Template:Selected anniversaries/January 20: Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 1: Line 1:
<gallery>
<gallery>
||1488: Sebastian Münster born ... scholar, cartographer, and cosmographer.
||1488: Sebastian Münster born ... scholar, cartographer, and cosmographer. Pic.


||1526: Rafael Bombelli born ... mathematician.
||1526: Rafael Bombelli born ... mathematician. Pic: book cover.


File:Simon Marius.jpg|link=Simon Marius (nonfiction)|1573: Astronomer [[Simon Marius (nonfiction)|Simon Marius]] born.  He will discover the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.
File:Simon Marius.jpg|link=Simon Marius (nonfiction)|1573: Astronomer [[Simon Marius (nonfiction)|Simon Marius]] born.  He will discover the four largest moons of Jupiter, independently of Galileo Galilei.
Line 14: Line 14:
||1785: Theodor von Grotthuss born ... chemist known for establishing the first theory of electrolysis in 1806 and formulating the first law of photochemistry in 1817. His theory of electrolysis is considered the first description of the so-called Grotthuss mechanism. Pic.
||1785: Theodor von Grotthuss born ... chemist known for establishing the first theory of electrolysis in 1806 and formulating the first law of photochemistry in 1817. His theory of electrolysis is considered the first description of the so-called Grotthuss mechanism. Pic.


||1831: Edward John Routh dies ... mathematician, noted as the outstanding coach of students preparing for the Mathematical Tripos examination of the University of Cambridge in its heyday in the middle of the nineteenth century. He also did much to systematise the mathematical theory of mechanics and created several ideas critical to the development of modern control systems theory.
||1831: Edward John Routh dies ... mathematician, noted as the outstanding coach of students preparing for the Mathematical Tripos examination of the University of Cambridge in its heyday in the middle of the nineteenth century. He also did much to systematise the mathematical theory of mechanics and created several ideas critical to the development of modern control systems theory. Pic.


File:David Brewster.jpg|link=David Brewster (nonfiction)|1840: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and crime-fighter [[David Brewster (nonfiction)|David Brewster]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].
File:David Brewster.jpg|link=David Brewster (nonfiction)|1840: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and crime-fighter [[David Brewster (nonfiction)|David Brewster]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] which detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]].
Line 20: Line 20:
File:Jørgen Jørgensen (Eckersberg).jpg|link=Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|1841: Adventurer [[Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|Jørgen Jørgensen]] dies. He sailed to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.
File:Jørgen Jørgensen (Eckersberg).jpg|link=Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|1841: Adventurer [[Jørgen Jørgensen (nonfiction)|Jørgen Jørgensen]] dies. He sailed to Iceland, declaring the country independent from Denmark and pronouncing himself its ruler, intending to found a new republic following the United States of America and France.


||1843: Giulio Ascoli born ... mathematician.
||1843: Giulio Ascoli born ... mathematician. Pic search unlikely: https://www.google.com/search?q=Giulio+Ascoli+mathematician


||1882: Johnny Torrio born ... mob boss.
||1882: Johnny Torrio born ... mob boss.
Line 26: Line 26:
||1883: Enoch L. Johnson born ... mob boss.
||1883: Enoch L. Johnson born ... mob boss.


||1889: Allan Haines Loughead born ... engineer and businessman, founded the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company.
||1889: Allan Haines Loughead born ... engineer and businessman, founded the Alco Hydro-Aeroplane Company. Pic search:https://www.google.com/search?q=Allan+Haines+Loughead


||1895: Gábor Szegő born ... mathematician and academic. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Szego.html
||1895: Gábor Szegő born ... mathematician and academic. Pic: http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/PictDisplay/Szego.html
Line 32: Line 32:
File:Elisha Gray.jpg|link=|1898: Electrical engineer [[Elisha Gray (nonfiction)|Elisha Gray]] uses his "telephote" technology to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Elisha Gray.jpg|link=|1898: Electrical engineer [[Elisha Gray (nonfiction)|Elisha Gray]] uses his "telephote" technology to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]].


||1899: Kenjiro Takayanagi born ...  engineer ... TV.
||1899: Kenjiro Takayanagi born ...  engineer ... TV. Pic.


File:Zénobe Gramme 1893.jpg|link=Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|1901: Electrical engineer [[Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|Zénobe Gramme]] dies. He invented the first usefully powerful electric motor.
File:Zénobe Gramme 1893.jpg|link=Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|1901: Electrical engineer [[Zénobe Gramme (nonfiction)|Zénobe Gramme]] dies. He invented the first usefully powerful electric motor.
Line 40: Line 40:
||1907: Manfred von Ardenne born ... research and applied physicist and inventor. He took out approximately 600 patents in fields including electron microscopy, medical technology, nuclear technology, plasma physics, and radio and television technology. From 1928 to 1945, he directed his private research laboratory Forschungslaboratorium für Elektronenphysik. For ten years after World War II, he worked in the Soviet Union on their atomic bomb project  Pic.
||1907: Manfred von Ardenne born ... research and applied physicist and inventor. He took out approximately 600 patents in fields including electron microscopy, medical technology, nuclear technology, plasma physics, and radio and television technology. From 1928 to 1945, he directed his private research laboratory Forschungslaboratorium für Elektronenphysik. For ten years after World War II, he worked in the Soviet Union on their atomic bomb project  Pic.


||1918: Nevin Scrimshaw born ... scientist. Nopic
||1918: Nevin Scrimshaw born ... scientist. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=nevin+scrimshaw


||1920: Edwin Hewitt born ... mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis and for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt–Savage zero–one law.
||1920: Edwin Hewitt born ... mathematician known for his work in abstract harmonic analysis and for his discovery, in collaboration with Leonard Jimmie Savage, of the Hewitt–Savage zero–one law. Pic.


||1921: Mary Watson Whitney dies ... astronomer and academic (b. 1847)
||1921: Mary Watson Whitney dies ... astronomer and academic. Pic.


||1924: Max Koecher born ... mathematician.
||1924: Max Koecher born ... mathematician. Pic.


File:Atlas-B rocket with SCORE payload.jpg|link=SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|1959: [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]] makes contact with orbital artificial intelligence [[AESOP]].
File:Atlas-B rocket with SCORE payload.jpg|link=SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|1959: [[SCORE (satellite) (nonfiction)|Project SCORE satellite]] makes contact with orbital artificial intelligence [[AESOP]].

Revision as of 14:09, 20 January 2019

Retrieved from "https://gnomonchronicles.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Selected_anniversaries/January_20&oldid=37650"