Template:Selected anniversaries/February 10: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 7: | Line 7: | ||
||1576: Wilhelm Xylander dies ... classical scholar and humanist. Pic. | ||1576: Wilhelm Xylander dies ... classical scholar and humanist. Pic. | ||
||1747: Aida Yasuaki born ... mathematician in the Edo period. He made significant contributions to the fields of number theory and geometry, and furthered methods for simplifying continued fractions. Pic. | ||1747: Aida Yasuaki born ... mathematician in the Edo period. He made significant contributions to the fields of number theory and geometry, and furthered methods for simplifying continued fractions. Pic. | ||
Line 77: | Line 75: | ||
|File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1957: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], performs new work based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | |File:Chrome Plover early publicity photo.jpg|link=Chrome Plover|1957: [[Chrome Plover]], the famous [[musical electroplating ensemble]], performs new work based on [[Gnomon algorithm functions]]. | ||
||1962: Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opens; it includes Look Mickey, which features his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for. Pic. | ||1962: Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opens; it includes Look Mickey, which features his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for. Pic. | ||
Line 94: | Line 90: | ||
||2009: The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both. | ||2009: The communications satellites Iridium 33 and Kosmos 2251 collide in orbit, destroying both. | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> |
Revision as of 20:19, 19 January 2022
1575: Mathematician, astronomer, and crime-fighter Giovanni Antonio Magini promotes the geocentric system of the world, failing to understand the nature of crimes against astronomical constants.
1868: Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, and writer David Brewster dies.
1900: Mark Twain declines to invest in transdimensional corporation, denounces offer as "a pyramid scheme of Pharaonic proportions."
1845: Engineer and physicist Wilhelm Röntgen dies. He won the first Nobel Prize in Physics, for the discovery of X-rays.
1891: Mathematician and physicist Sofia Kovalevskaya dies. Kovalevskaya made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics.
1902: Physicist and academic Walter Houser Brattain born. He will share the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 "for research on semiconductors and the discovery of the transistor effect."
1912: Surgeon and scientist Joseph Lister dies. He pioneered antiseptic surgery, performing the first antiseptic surgery in 1865.
1913: Nuclear physicist Arnold Flammersfeld born. Flammersfeld will work on the German nuclear energy project during World War II.
1952: Inventor Edward Hugh Hebern dies. He was a pioneer of rotor encryption machines.
1962: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.