Template:Selected anniversaries/July 8: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 70: | Line 70: | ||
||2008: Sixto Ríos García dies ... mathematician, known as the father of Spanish statistics. | ||2008: Sixto Ríos García dies ... mathematician, known as the father of Spanish statistics. | ||
||2010: David Blackwell dies ... statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and Bayesian statistics. He is one of the eponyms of the Rao–Blackwell theorem. Pic. | |||
||2011: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program. | ||2011: Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program. | ||
Revision as of 10:31, 6 December 2018
1695: Mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Christiaan Huygens dies. He was a leading scientist of his time.
1759: Mathematician, physicist, and astronomer John Winthrop publishes an analysis of Gnomon algorithm techniques which will inspire future generations of scientists to construct the ENIAC ("Empty Noise Into Alien Communication") project.
1766: Physician and surgeon Dominique Jean Larrey born. He will be an important innovator in battlefield medicine and triage, now often considered the first modern military surgeon.
1767: Anatomist, anatomical wax modeler, and crime-fighter Anna Morandi Manzolini publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent Organic golem generation.
1947: The Roswell UFO incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.
1948: Janet Beta at ENIAC "raises more questions that it answers," says director of Project Blue Book.
1960: Pilot Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.