Template:Selected anniversaries/October 19: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 53: | Line 53: | ||
||2007: Winifred Asprey dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. | ||2007: Winifred Asprey dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. | ||
||2013: Vladimir | ||2013: Vladimir Keilis-Borok dies ... mathematical geophysicist and seismologist. Pic: http://dailybruin.com/2013/10/31/keilis-borok-remembered-for-earthquake-prediction-research/ | ||
||2013: Hilda Hänchen dies ... physicist and academic. Pic search good: https://www.google.com/search?q=Hilda+Hänchen | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
Revision as of 05:24, 20 February 2019
1433: Priest, humanist philosopher, and astrologer Marsilio Ficino born. His Florentine Academy, an attempt to revive Plato's Academy, will influence the direction and tenor of the Italian Renaissance and the development of European philosophy.
1900: Max Planck discovers the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law).
1910: Astrophysicist, astronomer, and mathematician Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar born. He will share the 1983 Nobel Prize for Physics "for his theoretical studies of the physical processes of importance to the structure and evolution of the stars".
1973: Watergate scandal: President Richard Nixon rejects an Appeals Court decision that he turn over the Watergate tapes.