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||1674: John Graunt dies one of the first demographers, though by profession he was a haberdasher. Pic.
||1732: Louis Feuillée dies ... astronomer, geographer, and botanist. No DOB. Pic.
||1770: William Nicol born ... geologist and physicist who invented the Nicol prism, the first device for obtaining plane-polarized light, in 1828. Pic: memorial plaque.
File:Johan Carl Wilcke.jpg|link=Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|1796: Physicist [[Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|Johan Carl Wilcke]] dies. Wilcke invented the electrophorus, and calculated the latent heat of ice.
File:Johan Carl Wilcke.jpg|link=Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|1796: Physicist [[Johan Wilcke (nonfiction)|Johan Carl Wilcke]] dies. Wilcke invented the electrophorus, and calculated the latent heat of ice.
||1813: James McCune Smith born ... physician, apothecary, abolitionist, and author ... He used his training in medicine and statistics to refute common misconceptions about race, intelligence, medicine, and society in general. Invited as a founding member of the New York Statistics Society in 1852, which promoted a new science, he was elected as a member in 1854 of the recently founded American Geographic Society. But he was never admitted to the American Medical Association or local medical associations ... also an abolitionist. Pic.
||1838: Paul-Émile Lecoq de Boisbaudran dies ... chemist known for his discoveries of the chemical elements gallium, samarium and dysprosium. Pic.
||1849: Adolf Slaby born ... electronics pioneer. Pic.


File:Justus von Liebig circa 1866.jpg|link=Justus von Liebig (nonfiction)|1873: Chemist and academic [[Justus von Liebig (nonfiction)|Justus von Liebig]] dies. Von Liebeg made pioneering contributions to organic chemistry, especially agricultural and biological chemistry; he is known as the "Father of the fertilizer industry".
File:Justus von Liebig circa 1866.jpg|link=Justus von Liebig (nonfiction)|1873: Chemist and academic [[Justus von Liebig (nonfiction)|Justus von Liebig]] dies. Von Liebeg made pioneering contributions to organic chemistry, especially agricultural and biological chemistry; he is known as the "Father of the fertilizer industry".
||1880: Gerardus Johannes Mulder dies ... organic and analytical chemist.  Pic.
||1882: Julius Wolff dies ... mathematician, known for the Denjoy–Wolff theorem and for his boundary version of the Schwarz lemma. Pic.
||1882: Julius Edgar Lilienfeld born ... physicist and electronic engineer, credited with the first patents on the field-effect transistor (FET) (1925) and electrolytic capacitor. Pic.
||1892: Eugene Houdry born ... mechanical engineer and inventor. Houdry invented catalytic cracking of petroleum feed stocks. Pic.
||1892: Dmitrii Menshov born ... mathematician known for his contributions to the theory of trigonometric series. Pic search (fierce).
||1897: Ardito Desio born ... geologist, mountaineer, and cartographer. Desio explored the mountains of Europe, Africa, Asian, and Antarctica. Pic (charming).
||1905: Physician George H. Hitchings born.  Hitchings will share the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sir James Black and Gertrude Elion "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment", Hitchings specifically for his work on chemotherapy. Pic.


File:San Francisco 1906 earthquake Post-and-Grant-Avenue.jpg|link=1906 San Francisco earthquake (nonfiction)|1906: An [[1906 San Francisco earthquake (nonfiction)|earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California]].
File:San Francisco 1906 earthquake Post-and-Grant-Avenue.jpg|link=1906 San Francisco earthquake (nonfiction)|1906: An [[1906 San Francisco earthquake (nonfiction)|earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco, California]].


File:Einstein drumming.jpg|link=Albert Einstein|1907: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein]] hosts an all-star benefit concert to raise money for the rebuilding of San Francisco.
File:Einstein drumming.jpg|link=Albert Einstein|1907: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist [[Albert Einstein]] hosts an all-star benefit concert to raise money for the rebuilding of San Francisco.
||1907: Lars Valerian Ahlfors born ... mathematician, remembered for his work in the field of Riemann surfaces and his text on complex analysis. Pic.
||1911: Maurice Goldhaber born ... physicist and academic. Pic.
||1915: Alvin Martin Weinberg born ... was an American nuclear physicist who was the administrator at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) during and after the Manhattan Project. He came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1945 and remained there until his death in 2006. He was the first to use the term "Faustian bargain" to describe nuclear energy. Pic.
||1923: Mathematician and academic Pieter Hendrik Schoute dies ... known for his work on regular polytopes and Euclidean geometry. Pic.
||1936: Vladimir Hütt born ... physicist and philosopher. Pic search.
File:John Ambrose Fleming 1890.png|link=John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|1945: Electrical engineer and physicist [[John Ambrose Fleming (nonfiction)|John Ambrose Fleming]] dies. Fleming invented the thermionic valve, also known as the vacuum tube.


File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1955: Physicist, engineer, and academic [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] dies. Einstein developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
File:Albert Einstein 1921.jpg|link=Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|1955: Physicist, engineer, and academic [[Albert Einstein (nonfiction)|Albert Einstein]] dies. Einstein developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).
||1961: Abraham Plessner dies ... mathematician. He published a paper containing what is now called Plessner's theorem, concerning the boundary behavior of functions meromorphic in the unit disk. Pic: https://www.geni.com/people/Abraham-E-Plessner/6000000000601380840
||1967: Norwood Russell Hanson dies - philosopher of science. Hanson was a pioneer in advancing the argument that observation is theory-laden — that observation language and theory language are deeply interwoven — and that historical and contemporary comprehension are similarly deeply interwoven. His single most central intellectual concern was the comprehension and development of a logic of discovery. Pic.
||1991: Epidemiologist and statistician Austin Bradford Hill dies. Hill pioneered the randomized clinical trial and, together with Richard Doll, demonstrated the connection between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. Hill is widely known for pioneering the "Bradford Hill" criteria for determining a causal association. Pic.
||1999: Gian-Carlo Rota dies ... American mathematician and philosopher. Pic (blackboard pose).
||2003: Edgar F. Codd dies ... computer scientist and mathematician who laid the theoretical foundation for relational databases, for storing and retrieving information in computer records. He also contributed knowledge in the area of cellular automata. Pic.
||2006: Heinz Schlicke dies ... engineer and author, an Operation Paperclip scientist, and engineer at the Allen-Bradley Co. in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Pic.


File:Curt Meyer.jpg|link=Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|2011: Mathematician [[Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|Curt Meyer]] dies. Meyer made notable contributions to number theory, including an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem.
File:Curt Meyer.jpg|link=Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|2011: Mathematician [[Curt Meyer (nonfiction)|Curt Meyer]] dies. Meyer made notable contributions to number theory, including an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem.

Latest revision as of 03:17, 18 April 2022

  • 1796: Physicist Johan Carl Wilcke dies. Wilcke invented the electrophorus, and calculated the latent heat of ice.

    1796: Physicist Johan Carl Wilcke dies. Wilcke invented the electrophorus, and calculated the latent heat of ice.

  • 1873: Chemist and academic Justus von Liebig dies. Von Liebeg made pioneering contributions to organic chemistry, especially agricultural and biological chemistry; he is known as the "Father of the fertilizer industry".

    1873: Chemist and academic Justus von Liebig dies. Von Liebeg made pioneering contributions to organic chemistry, especially agricultural and biological chemistry; he is known as the "Father of the fertilizer industry".

  • 1907: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein hosts an all-star benefit concert to raise money for the rebuilding of San Francisco.

    1907: Jazz drummer and theoretical physicist Albert Einstein hosts an all-star benefit concert to raise money for the rebuilding of San Francisco.

  • 1955: Physicist, engineer, and academic Albert Einstein dies. Einstein developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).

    1955: Physicist, engineer, and academic Albert Einstein dies. Einstein developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics).

  • 2011: Mathematician Curt Meyer dies. Meyer made notable contributions to number theory, including an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem.

    2011: Mathematician Curt Meyer dies. Meyer made notable contributions to number theory, including an alternative solution to the class number 1 problem, building on the original Stark–Heegner theorem.

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