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File:Richard Sharpe Shaver.jpg|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|1907: Author and illustrator [[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]] born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth. | File:Richard Sharpe Shaver.jpg|link=Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|1907: Author and illustrator [[Richard Sharpe Shaver (nonfiction)|Richard Sharpe Shaver]] born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth. | ||
||1908: Hans Heilbronn born ... mathematician. He will prove that the class number of the number field {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} ({\sqrt {-d}})} \mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-d}) tends to plus infinity as {\displaystyle d} d does Pic | ||1908: Hans Heilbronn born ... mathematician. He will prove that the class number of the number field {\displaystyle \mathbb {Q} ({\sqrt {-d}})} \mathbb{Q}(\sqrt{-d}) tends to plus infinity as {\displaystyle d} d does. Pic search. | ||
||1910: Helmut Kallmeyer born ... chemist and soldier ... served as a consultant in Adolf Hitler's Chancellery (Kanzlei des Führers) for gasification methods. Later, he worked in the Technical Institute for the Detection of Crime (Kriminaltechnisches Institut der Sicherheitspolizei, KTI). He was involved in Action T4, Nazi Germany's program to murder people with disabilities. Pic search | ||1910: Helmut Kallmeyer born ... chemist and soldier ... served as a consultant in Adolf Hitler's Chancellery (Kanzlei des Führers) for gasification methods. Later, he worked in the Technical Institute for the Detection of Crime (Kriminaltechnisches Institut der Sicherheitspolizei, KTI). He was involved in Action T4, Nazi Germany's program to murder people with disabilities. Pic search. | ||
||1912: Saul Winstein born ... chemist who discovered the Winstein reaction. He argued a non-classical cation was needed to explain the stability of the norbornyl cation. Pic search | ||1912: Saul Winstein born ... chemist who discovered the Winstein reaction. He argued a non-classical cation was needed to explain the stability of the norbornyl cation. Pic search. | ||
||1913: Robert Rowe Gilruth born ... aerospace scientist, engineer, and a pioneer of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs. He developed the X-1, first plane to break the sound barrier. Gilruth directed Project Mercury, the initial program for achieving manned space flight. Under his leadership, the first American astronaut orbited the Earth only a little over 3 years after NASA was created. In 1961, President Kennedy and the Congress committed the nation to a manned lunar landing within the decade. Gilruth was named the Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center and assigned the responsibility of designing and developing the spacecraft and associated equipment, planning and controlling missions, and training flight crews. He retired from NASA in 1973. Pic. | ||1913: Robert Rowe Gilruth born ... aerospace scientist, engineer, and a pioneer of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo space programs. He developed the X-1, first plane to break the sound barrier. Gilruth directed Project Mercury, the initial program for achieving manned space flight. Under his leadership, the first American astronaut orbited the Earth only a little over 3 years after NASA was created. In 1961, President Kennedy and the Congress committed the nation to a manned lunar landing within the decade. Gilruth was named the Director of the Manned Spacecraft Center and assigned the responsibility of designing and developing the spacecraft and associated equipment, planning and controlling missions, and training flight crews. He retired from NASA in 1973. Pic. | ||
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File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|1925: Signed first edition of ''[[Culvert Origenes and The Governess]]'' stolen by [[math criminals]]. | File:Culvert Origenes and The Governess.jpg|link=Culvert Origenes and The Governess|1925: Signed first edition of ''[[Culvert Origenes and The Governess]]'' stolen by [[math criminals]]. | ||
|| | ||2002: César Milstein dies ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1940: Jacob Robert Emden dies ... astrophysicist and meteorologist ... mathematical model of the behavior of polytropic gaseous stellar objects under the influence their own gravity, known as the Lane-Emden equation. Pic search | ||1932: Kenneth Ira Appel born ... mathematician who in 1976, with colleague Wolfgang Haken at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, solved one of the most famous problems in mathematics, the four-color theorem. They proved that any two-dimensional map, with certain limitations, can be filled in with four colors without any adjacent "countries" sharing the same color. Pic search. | ||
||1940: Jacob Robert Emden dies ... astrophysicist and meteorologist ... mathematical model of the behavior of polytropic gaseous stellar objects under the influence their own gravity, known as the Lane-Emden equation. Pic search/ | |||
File:Joseph Wedderburn.jpg|link=Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|1941: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|Joseph Wedderburn]] the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Joseph Wedderburn.jpg|link=Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|1941: Mathematician and crime-fighter [[Joseph Wedderburn (nonfiction)|Joseph Wedderburn]] the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
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File:Sergey Chaplygin.jpg|link=Sergey Chaplygin (nonfiction)|1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer [[Sergey Chaplygin (nonfiction)|Sergey Chaplygin]] dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him. | File:Sergey Chaplygin.jpg|link=Sergey Chaplygin (nonfiction)|1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer [[Sergey Chaplygin (nonfiction)|Sergey Chaplygin]] dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him. | ||
||1944: Rollo Davidson born ... probabilist, alpinist, and Fellow-elect of Churchill College, Cambridge, who died aged 25 on Piz Bernina. He is known for his work on semigroups, stochastic geometry, and stochastic analysis,[1] and for the Rollo Davidson Prize, given in his name to young probabilists. Pic | ||1944: Rollo Davidson born ... probabilist, alpinist, and Fellow-elect of Churchill College, Cambridge, who died aged 25 on Piz Bernina. He is known for his work on semigroups, stochastic geometry, and stochastic analysis,[1] and for the Rollo Davidson Prize, given in his name to young probabilists. Pic search. | ||
File:Neptune Slaughter Believe It Or Whaat.jpg|link=Neptune Slaughter|1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier ''Hiryu''. | File:Neptune Slaughter Believe It Or Whaat.jpg|link=Neptune Slaughter|1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain [[Neptune Slaughter]] denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier ''Hiryu''. | ||
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||1949: Leonor Michaelis dies ... biochemist, physical chemist, and physician, known primarily for his work with Maud Menten on enzyme kinetics and Michaelis–Menten kinetics in 1913. Pic. | ||1949: Leonor Michaelis dies ... biochemist, physical chemist, and physician, known primarily for his work with Maud Menten on enzyme kinetics and Michaelis–Menten kinetics in 1913. Pic. | ||
||1949: Jerry Bittle born ... cartoonist. Pic search | ||1949: Jerry Bittle born ... cartoonist. Pic search. | ||
||1949: Ashawna Hailey born ... computer scientist and philanthropist. Pic. | ||1949: Ashawna Hailey born ... computer scientist and philanthropist. Pic. | ||
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||2001: U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security. | ||2001: U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security. | ||
||2005: Mathematician Alfred William Goldie dies. He will work in ring theory where he introduced the notion of the uniform dimension of a module, and the reduced rank of a module. He is well known for Goldie's theorem, which characterizes right Goldie rings. Indeed, his Independent obituary described him as the "Lord of the Rings". Pic | ||2005: Mathematician Alfred William Goldie dies. He will work in ring theory where he introduced the notion of the uniform dimension of a module, and the reduced rank of a module. He is well known for Goldie's theorem, which characterizes right Goldie rings. Indeed, his Independent obituary described him as the "Lord of the Rings". Pic search. | ||
File:Tullio Regge.jpg|link=Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|2009: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|Tullio Regge]] uses spin foam models to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]], warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk." | File:Tullio Regge.jpg|link=Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|2009: Physicist and crime-fighter [[Tullio Regge (nonfiction)|Tullio Regge]] uses spin foam models to detect and prevent [[crimes against physics]], warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk." | ||
||2014: Harden M. McConnell dies ... chemist and academic ... contributed to the understanding of the relation between molecular electronic structure and electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra during the period of 1955 through 1965. After that, he developed the technique of spin-labels, whereby electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra can be used to study the structure and kinetics of proteins and membranes. Pic search | ||2014: Harden M. McConnell dies ... chemist and academic ... contributed to the understanding of the relation between molecular electronic structure and electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra during the period of 1955 through 1965. After that, he developed the technique of spin-labels, whereby electron and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra can be used to study the structure and kinetics of proteins and membranes. Pic search. | ||
File:Butterfly.jpg|link=Butterfly (image) (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Butterfly (image) (nonfiction)|Butterfly]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | File:Butterfly.jpg|link=Butterfly (image) (nonfiction)|2016: ''[[Butterfly (image) (nonfiction)|Butterfly]]'' voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of [[New Minneapolis, Canada]]. | ||
||2016: Mathematician, engineer, and academic Ray William Clough dies. Clough was a pioneer of the finite element method (FEM). He coined the term "finite elements" in an article in 1960. Pic search | ||2016: Mathematician, engineer, and academic Ray William Clough dies. Clough was a pioneer of the finite element method (FEM). He coined the term "finite elements" in an article in 1960. Pic search. | ||
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Revision as of 04:53, 23 March 2020
1860: Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens.
1907: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver born. He will write stories in which he claimed that he has had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.
1924: Mathematician and statistician John Nelder born. He will contribute to experimental design, analysis of variance, computational statistics, and statistical theory. He will also be responsible, with Max Nicholson and James Ferguson-Lees, for debunking the Hastings Rarities.
1925: Signed first edition of Culvert Origenes and The Governess stolen by math criminals.
1941: Mathematician and crime-fighter Joseph Wedderburn the Artin–Wedderburn theorem on simple algebras to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1942: Physicist, mathematician, and engineer Sergey Chaplygin dies. He is known for mathematical formulas such as Chaplygin's equation, and for a hypothetical substance in cosmology called Chaplygin gas, named after him.
1946: Sea-creature and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter denies sinking the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu.
1985: Mathematician, cryptographer, and author Gordon Welchman dies. During the Second World War, he developed traffic analysis techniques for breaking German codes.
2009: Physicist and crime-fighter Tullio Regge uses spin foam models to detect and prevent crimes against physics, warns that quantum gravity "may still be at risk."
2016: Butterfly voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.