Template:Selected anniversaries/October 28: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| Line 20: | Line 20: | ||
||1871: Quirino Majorana born ... experimental physicist who investigated a wide range of phenomena | ||1871: Quirino Majorana born ... experimental physicist who investigated a wide range of phenomena | ||
||1873: Mathematician Karl Frithiof Sundman born - used analytic methods to prove the existence of a convergent infinite series solution to the three-body problem in two papers published in 1907 and 1909. | |||
||1880: Astrophysicist Wilhelm Anderson born. Anderson studied the physical structure of the stars. Pic. | ||1880: Astrophysicist Wilhelm Anderson born. Anderson studied the physical structure of the stars. Pic. | ||
Latest revision as of 14:34, 23 March 2024
1703: Mathematician and engineer Antoine Deparcieux born. He will make a living manufacturing sundials.
1841: Chemist and academic Johan August Arfwedson dies. Arfwedson discovered the element lithium in 1817 by isolating it as a salt.
1892: Charles-Émile Reynaud performs the first of his Pantomimes Lumineuses shows in Paris using his animated film projection system, the praxinoscope.
1919: Mathematician and academic Gerhard Ringel born. Ringel will be a pioneer of graph theory and contribute significantly to the proof of the Heawood conjecture (later the Ringel-Youngs theorem), a mathematical problem closely linked with the Four color theorem.
2005: Chemist and academic Richard Smalley dies. Along with colleagues Robert Curl and Harold Kroto, he was awarded the 1996 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs.