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||43 BC: Ovid born ... Roman poet. Pic: statue. | ||43 BC: Ovid born ... Roman poet. Pic: statue. | ||
||1617: François d'Aguilon dies | ||1617: François d'Aguilon dies ... Jesuit mathematician, physicist and architect. Pic: book plate. | ||
||1664: Johann Baptist Homann born ... geographer and cartographer, who also made maps of the Americas. Pic. | ||1664: Johann Baptist Homann born ... geographer and cartographer, who also made maps of the Americas. Pic. | ||
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||1750: Martin van Marum born ... physician, inventor, scientist and teacher, who studied medicine and philosophy in Groningen. Van Marum introduced modern chemistry in the Netherlands after the theories of Lavoisier, and several scientific applications for general use. He became famous for his demonstrations with instruments, most notable the Large electricity machine, to show statical electricity and chemical experiments while curator for the Teylers Museum. Pic. | ||1750: Martin van Marum born ... physician, inventor, scientist and teacher, who studied medicine and philosophy in Groningen. Van Marum introduced modern chemistry in the Netherlands after the theories of Lavoisier, and several scientific applications for general use. He became famous for his demonstrations with instruments, most notable the Large electricity machine, to show statical electricity and chemical experiments while curator for the Teylers Museum. Pic. | ||
||1834: Charles William Eliot born ... mathematician and academic. | ||1834: Charles William Eliot born ... mathematician and academic. Selected as Harvard's president in 1869, Eliot transformed the provincial college into the pre-eminent American research university. Pic. | ||
||1840: Franz Mertens born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1840: Franz Mertens born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
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||1879: Maud Leonora Menten born ... physician-scientist who made significant contributions to enzyme kinetics and histochemistry. Her name is associated with the famous Michaelis–Menten equation in biochemistry. Pic. | ||1879: Maud Leonora Menten born ... physician-scientist who made significant contributions to enzyme kinetics and histochemistry. Her name is associated with the famous Michaelis–Menten equation in biochemistry. Pic. | ||
||1884: Philipp Frank born ... physicist, mathematician, and philosopher. | ||1884: Philipp Frank born ... physicist, mathematician, and philosopher. He was a logical-positivist, and a member of the Vienna Circle. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=philipp+frank+mathematician | ||
||1895: Ludwig Schläfli dies ... mathematician, specialising in geometry and complex analysis (at the time called function theory) who was one of the key figures in developing the notion of higher-dimensional spaces. Pic. | ||1895: Ludwig Schläfli dies ... mathematician, specialising in geometry and complex analysis (at the time called function theory) who was one of the key figures in developing the notion of higher-dimensional spaces. Pic. | ||
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||1886: Gilles Holst born ... physicist, known worldwide for his invention in 1932 of the low-pressure sodium lamp. Pic: http://www.biografischportaal.nl/en/persoon/02090115 | ||1886: Gilles Holst born ... physicist, known worldwide for his invention in 1932 of the low-pressure sodium lamp. Pic: http://www.biografischportaal.nl/en/persoon/02090115 | ||
||1903: Carl Anton Bjerknes dies ... mathematician and physicist. Bjerknes' earlier work was in pure mathematics, but he is principally known for his studies in hydrodynamics. | ||1903: Carl Anton Bjerknes dies ... mathematician and physicist. Bjerknes' earlier work was in pure mathematics, but he is principally known for his studies in hydrodynamics. Pic. | ||
||1904: Walter Maurice Elsasser born ... physicist considered a "father" of the presently accepted dynamo theory as an explanation of the Earth's magnetism. He proposed that this magnetic field resulted from electric currents induced in the fluid outer core of the Earth. Pic. | ||1904: Walter Maurice Elsasser born ... physicist considered a "father" of the presently accepted dynamo theory as an explanation of the Earth's magnetism. He proposed that this magnetic field resulted from electric currents induced in the fluid outer core of the Earth. Pic. | ||
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||1921: Alfréd Rényi born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=alfréd+rényi&oq=Alfréd+Rényi | ||1921: Alfréd Rényi born ... mathematician and theorist. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=alfréd+rényi&oq=Alfréd+Rényi | ||
||1922: The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier. | ||1922: The USS ''Langley'' is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier. | ||
||1928: James P. Gordon born ... American physicist and engineer ... known for his work in the fields of optics and quantum electronics. His contributions include the design, analysis and construction of the first maser in 1954 as a doctoral student at Columbia University under the supervision of C. H. Townes, development of the quantal equivalent of Shannon’s information capacity formula in 1962, development of the theory for the diffusion of atoms in an optical trap (together with A. Ashkin) in 1980, and the discovery of what is now known as the Gordon-Haus effect in soliton transmission, together with H. A. Haus in 1986. Pic. | ||1928: James P. Gordon born ... American physicist and engineer ... known for his work in the fields of optics and quantum electronics. His contributions include the design, analysis and construction of the first maser in 1954 as a doctoral student at Columbia University under the supervision of C. H. Townes, development of the quantal equivalent of Shannon’s information capacity formula in 1962, development of the theory for the diffusion of atoms in an optical trap (together with A. Ashkin) in 1980, and the discovery of what is now known as the Gordon-Haus effect in soliton transmission, together with H. A. Haus in 1986. Pic. | ||
||1933: Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. | ||1933: Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt. Pic. | ||
||1933: Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant. | ||1933: Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant. | ||
||1935: Bettye Washington Greene born ... chemist. | ||1935: Bettye Washington Greene born ... chemist. Greene researched colloid and latex chemistry, including interactions between latex and paper. Pic (science!). | ||
||1939: Walter Jakob Gehring born ... biologist and academic. | ||1939: Walter Jakob Gehring born ... biologist and academic. | ||
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1726/27: Isaac Newton dies. He is widely recognized as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution.
1877: Mathematician and logician Ernst Schröder systematizes various systems of formal logic in a successful effort to prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1878: Physician and physicist Julius Robert von Mayer dies. In 1842, Mayer described the vital chemical process now referred to as oxidation as the primary source of energy for any living creature. His achievements were overlooked and priority for the discovery of the mechanical equivalent of heat was attributed to James Joule in the following year.
1914: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein develops a new drum fill which anticipates his general theory of relativity.
1915: Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
1961: Early rough draft of Table Manners unexpectedly reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of encrypted data.
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1962: Sociologist and author C. Wright Mills dies. He was published widely in popular and intellectual journals, advocating public and political engagement over disinterested observation.
2017: Ursa Nano is declared Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.