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File:Nova_Scorpii_1437_AD.jpg|link=Nova Scorpii AD 1437 (nonfiction)|1437: Korean astronomers record the appearance of a new star, which shines for fourteen days before dimming. This astronomical event will later be known as [[Nova Scorpii AD 1437 (nonfiction)|Nova Scorpii AD 1437]].
File:Nova_Scorpii_1437_AD.jpg|link=Nova Scorpii AD 1437 (nonfiction)|1437: Korean astronomers record the appearance of a new star, which shines for fourteen days before dimming. This astronomical event will later be known as [[Nova Scorpii AD 1437 (nonfiction)|Nova Scorpii AD 1437]].
||1636: Christoph Grienberger dies ... Jesuit astronomer, after whom the crater Gruemberger on the Moon is named. Pic: book cover.


File:Urbain Le Verrier.jpg|link=Urbain Le Verrier (nonfiction)|1811: Mathematician and astronomer [[Urbain Le Verrier (nonfiction)|Urbain Le Verrier]] born.  Le Verrier  will predict the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics, an event which will be widely regarded as one of the most remarkable moments of 19th century science.
File:Urbain Le Verrier.jpg|link=Urbain Le Verrier (nonfiction)|1811: Mathematician and astronomer [[Urbain Le Verrier (nonfiction)|Urbain Le Verrier]] born.  Le Verrier  will predict the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics, an event which will be widely regarded as one of the most remarkable moments of 19th century science.
||1812: Philip James de Loutherbourg dies ... painter who became known for his large naval works, his elaborate set designs for London theatres, and his invention of a mechanical theatre called the "Eidophusikon". Pic.
||1818: Chemist and academic Henri Étienne Sainte-Claire Deville born. Pic.


File:Joseph Bertrand.jpg|link=Joseph Bertrand (nonfiction)|1822: Mathematician, economist, and academic [[Joseph Bertrand (nonfiction)|Joseph Louis François Bertrand]] born. Bertrand will contribute to number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.
File:Joseph Bertrand.jpg|link=Joseph Bertrand (nonfiction)|1822: Mathematician, economist, and academic [[Joseph Bertrand (nonfiction)|Joseph Louis François Bertrand]] born. Bertrand will contribute to number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.


File:Niles Cartouchian and Anton Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Anton Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|1823: Publication of ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Anton Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Niles Cartouchian and Anton Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus.jpg|link=Niles Cartouchian and Anton Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus|1823: Publication of ''[[Niles Cartouchian and Anton Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus]]'' causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting crimes against mathematical constants.
 
||1853: Salvatore Pincherle born ... mathematician. He contributed significantly to (and arguably helped to found) the field of functional analysis, established the Italian Mathematical Union (Italian: "Unione Matematica Italiana"), and was president of the Third International Congress of Mathematicians. The Pincherle derivative is named after him. Pic.
 
||1870: Louis Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Bachelier born ... mathematician at the turn of the 20th century. He is credited with being the first person to model the stochastic process now called Brownian motion, as part of his PhD thesis The Theory of Speculation. Pic.
 
||1874: Paleontologist Charles Whitney Gilmore born ... gained renown in the early 20th century for his work on vertebrate fossils during his career at the United States National Museum (now the National Museum of Natural History). Pic.
 
||1879: Chemist Niels Bjerrum dies. He investigated the properties of electrolytic solutions in regards to their dissociation and association,, and introduced the quantity osmotic coefficient in relation to non-ideal solutions of electrolytes. He is known for the Bjerrum length. Pic search.
 
File:Harry Laughlin.jpg|link=Harry H. Laughlin (nonfiction)|1880: American eugenicist and sociologist [[Harry H. Laughlin (nonfiction)|Harry H. Laughlin]] born. Laughlin will be the Superintendent of the Eugenics Record Office from its inception in 1910 to its closing in 1939, and among the most active individuals in influencing American eugenics policy, especially compulsory sterilization legislation.


File:Vannevar_Bush_(between_1940_and_1944).jpg|link=Vannevar Bush (nonfiction)|1890: Engineer and academic [[Vannevar Bush (nonfiction)|Vannevar Bush]] born. Bush develop the Differential Analyzer, initiate the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] and oversee government mobilization of scientific research during World War II, and make pioneering contributions to computer science.
File:Vannevar_Bush_(between_1940_and_1944).jpg|link=Vannevar Bush (nonfiction)|1890: Engineer and academic [[Vannevar Bush (nonfiction)|Vannevar Bush]] born. Bush develop the Differential Analyzer, initiate the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] and oversee government mobilization of scientific research during World War II, and make pioneering contributions to computer science.
||1891: Michael Polanyi born ... polymath, who made important theoretical contributions to physical chemistry, economics, and philosophy. He argued that positivism supplies a false account of knowing, which if taken seriously undermines humanity's highest achievements. Pic.
||1892: Archibald Scott Couper dies ... chemist who proposed an early theory of chemical structure and bonding. He developed the concepts of tetravalent carbon atoms linking together to form large molecules, and that the bonding order of the atoms in a molecule can be determined from chemical evidence. Pic.
||1892: Lucien Lévy born ... radio engineer and radio receiver manufacturer. He invented the superheterodyne method of amplifying radio signals, used in almost all AM radio receivers. His patent claim was at first disallowed in the United States in favour of the American Edwin Howard Armstrong, but on appeal Lévy's claim as inventor was accepted in the US. Pic.
||1899: Norman Hilberry born ... physicist, best known as the director of the Argonne National Laboratory from 1956 to 1961. In December 1942 he was the man who stood ready with an axe to cut the scram line during the start up of Chicago Pile-1, the world's first nuclear reactor to achieve criticality. Pic.
||1909: Edmund Louis Gray Zalinski dies ... soldier, military engineer and inventor. He is best known for the development of the pneumatic dynamite torpedo-gun. Pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Edmund_Zalinski.jpeg
||1910: Robert Havemann born ... chemist, and an East German dissident. Pic.
||1915: J. C. R. Licklider born ... computer scientist and psychologist. He has been called "computing's Johnny Appleseed", for planting the seeds of computing in the digital age. Pic.
||1920: Nicolaas Bloembergen born ... physicist and Nobel laureate, recognized for his work in developing driving principles behind nonlinear optics for laser spectroscopy. During his career, he was a professor at both Harvard University and later at the University of Arizona. Bloembergen shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics with Arthur Schawlow, along with Kai Siegbahn for his laser spectroscopy work. Pic.
||1920: Julio Garavito Armero dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and engineer. Pic.
||1921: Sherburne Wesley Burnham born ... astronomer. For more than fifty years he spent all his free time observing the heavens, principally concerning himself with binary stars. During the 1840s it was believed that essentially all the binary stars visible to the instruments of the day had been discovered; Burnham found 451 new ones from 1872 to 1877. Pic.
||1921: Frank Harary born ... mathematician and academic. Pic.
||1924: Niels Fabian Helge von Koch dies ... mathematician who gave his name to the famous fractal known as the Koch snowflake, one of the earliest fractal curves to be described. Pic.
||1925: Margaret Oakley Dayhoff born ... biochemist and academic ... physical chemist and a pioneer in the field of bioinformatics. Pic search.
||1944: Edgar Zilsel dies ... historian and philosopher of science, linked to the Vienna Circle. Why science arose in Europe and not elsewhere. Pic search.
||1950: Arthur Jeffrey Dempster dies ... physicist and academic. Pic (cool).


File:Alexander Fleming.jpg|link=Alexander Fleming (nonfiction)|1955: Biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist [[Alexander Fleming (nonfiction)|Alexander Fleming]] dies. Fleming discovered the enzyme lysozyme in 1923, and the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.
File:Alexander Fleming.jpg|link=Alexander Fleming (nonfiction)|1955: Biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist [[Alexander Fleming (nonfiction)|Alexander Fleming]] dies. Fleming discovered the enzyme lysozyme in 1923, and the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.
File:Philo T Farnsworth.jpg|link=Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|1971: Inventor [[Philo Farnsworth (nonfiction)|Philo Farnsworth]] dies. Farnsworth made pioneering contributions to the development of all-electronic television.
||1967: Walter A. Shewhart dies ... physicist, engineer and statistician, sometimes known as the father of statistical quality control. Pic.
||1981: Kazimierz Kordylewski born ... was a Polish astronomer. In 1956 he claimed the discovery of the Kordylewski clouds which are believed to be large transient concentrations of dust at the Trojan points of the Earth-Moon system. The existence of the clouds is still contested. Pic.
File:Sir Charles Oatley.jpg|link=Charles Oatley (nonfiction)|1996: Engineer and inventor [[Charles Oatley (nonfiction)|Charles William Oatley]] dies. Oatley developed of one of the first commercial scanning electron microscopes.
File:Rudolf_Hell_führt_seinen_Wetterkartenschreiber_vor_(Kiel_44.592).jpg|link=Rudolf Hell (nonfiction)|2002: Inventor and engineer [[Rudolf Hell (nonfiction)|Rudolf Hell]] dies. Hell invented the [[Hellschreiber (nonfiction)|Hellschreiber]], a pioneering teleprinter system. Shown here: Hell's ''Wetterkartenschreiber'' ("weather chart recorder").
||2009: Arthur Dodd Code dies ... astronomer who designed orbiting observatories. Pic.
||2015: Gerald Hurst dies ... chemist and academic ... arson investigator. Pic search.
||2017: Lloyd Conover dies ... chemist and inventor ... the inventor of tetracycline. Pic search.


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Latest revision as of 08:58, 11 March 2022

  • 1437: Korean astronomers record the appearance of a new star, which shines for fourteen days before dimming. This astronomical event will later be known as Nova Scorpii AD 1437.

    1437: Korean astronomers record the appearance of a new star, which shines for fourteen days before dimming. This astronomical event will later be known as Nova Scorpii AD 1437.

  • 1811: Mathematician and astronomer Urbain Le Verrier born. Le Verrier will predict the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics, an event which will be widely regarded as one of the most remarkable moments of 19th century science.

    1811: Mathematician and astronomer Urbain Le Verrier born. Le Verrier will predict the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics, an event which will be widely regarded as one of the most remarkable moments of 19th century science.

  • 1822: Mathematician, economist, and academic Joseph Louis François Bertrand born. Bertrand will contribute to number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.

    1822: Mathematician, economist, and academic Joseph Louis François Bertrand born. Bertrand will contribute to number theory, differential geometry, probability theory, economics and thermodynamics.

  • 1823: Publication of Niles Cartouchian and Anton Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting crimes against mathematical constants.

    1823: Publication of Niles Cartouchian and Anton Rhodomunde Confront Gnotilus causes widespread debate about the role of private citizens in fighting crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1890: Engineer and academic Vannevar Bush born. Bush develop the Differential Analyzer, initiate the Manhattan Project and oversee government mobilization of scientific research during World War II, and make pioneering contributions to computer science.

    1890: Engineer and academic Vannevar Bush born. Bush develop the Differential Analyzer, initiate the Manhattan Project and oversee government mobilization of scientific research during World War II, and make pioneering contributions to computer science.

  • 1955: Biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist Alexander Fleming dies. Fleming discovered the enzyme lysozyme in 1923, and the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

    1955: Biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist Alexander Fleming dies. Fleming discovered the enzyme lysozyme in 1923, and the world's first broadly effective antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin (Penicillin G) in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain.

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