Template:Selected anniversaries/December 12: Difference between revisions

From Gnomon Chronicles
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
Line 6: Line 6:
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to communicate with [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]].
File:Bartolomeu Lourenço de Gusmão.jpg|link=Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|1705: Inventor and priest [[Bartolomeu de Gusmão (nonfiction)|Bartolomeu de Gusmão]]'s uses [[Gnomon algorithm]] to communicate with [[John Pell (nonfiction)|John Pell]].


||Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow (b. 12 December 1832) was a Norwegian mathematician who proved foundational results in group theory.
||1832: Peter Ludwig Mejdell Sylow born ... mathematician who proved foundational results in group theory.


||Marcel Deprez (b. December 12, 1843) was a French electrical engineer. Pic.
||1843: Marcel Deprez born ... electrical engineer. Pic.


File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1862: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.
File:USS Cairo.jpg|link=USS Cairo (nonfiction)|1862: [[USS Cairo (nonfiction)|USS Cairo]] sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.


||1866 – Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
||1866: Alfred Werner born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)


||Theodore Willard Case (b. December 12, 1888) was an American chemist, physicist, and inventor known for the invention of the Movietone sound-on-film sound film system. Pic.
||1888: Theodore Willard Case born ... chemist, physicist, and inventor known for the invention of the Movietone sound-on-film sound film system. Pic.


||1889 – Viktor Bunyakovsky, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and theorist (b. 1804)
||1889: Viktor Bunyakovsky dies ... mathematician and theorist.


||1897 – Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, is founded.
||1897: Belo Horizonte, the first planned city in Brazil, is founded.


File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1901: [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
File:Guglielmo Marconi.jpg|link=Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|1901: [[Guglielmo Marconi (nonfiction)|Guglielmo Marconi]] receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.


||Nelson James Dunford (b. December 12, 1906) was an American mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis, namely integration of vector valued functions, ergodic theory, and linear operators. The Dunford decomposition, Dunford–Pettis property, and Dunford-Schwartz theorem bear his name.
||1906: Nelson James Dunford born ... mathematician, known for his work in functional analysis, namely integration of vector valued functions, ergodic theory, and linear operators. The Dunford decomposition, Dunford–Pettis property, and Dunford-Schwartz theorem bear his name.


File:Henrietta Swan Leavitt.jpg|link=Henrietta Swan Leavitt (nonfiction)|1921: Astronomer [[Henrietta Swan Leavitt (nonfiction)|Henrietta Swan Leavitt]] dies. She discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.
File:Henrietta Swan Leavitt.jpg|link=Henrietta Swan Leavitt (nonfiction)|1921: Astronomer [[Henrietta Swan Leavitt (nonfiction)|Henrietta Swan Leavitt]] dies. She discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.


||Robert Norton Noyce (b. December 12, 1927), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley," was an American engineer who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the realization of the first integrated circuit or microchip that fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name. Pic.
||1927: Robert Norton Noyce born ... engineer who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack Kilby) with the realization of the first integrated circuit or microchip that fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name. Pic.


||1969 – Years of Lead: Piazza Fontana bombing: The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.
||OSCAR 1: The first amateur built satellite, is launched aboard an American Thor-Agena rocket.
 
||1969: Years of Lead: Piazza Fontana bombing: The offices of Banca Nazionale dell'Agricoltura in Piazza Fontana, Milan, are bombed.


File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1994: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] sell for 1.7 million dollars.
File:Public key cryptography.png|link=Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|1994: Diagram of [[Public-key cryptography (nonfiction)|public-key cryptography generation]] sell for 1.7 million dollars.


||1997 – Evgenii Landis, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1921)
||1997: Evgenii Landis dies ... mathematician and academic.
 
|File:Wizard Jan Kochanowski.jpg|link=Jan_Kochanowski|2007: Poet and wizard [[Jan Kochanowski]] adapts [[Nebra sky disk (nonfiction)|Nebra sky disk]] for use as [[scrying engine]].


||2012 – North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using an Unha-3 carrier rocket.
||2012: North Korea successfully launches its first satellite, Kwangmyŏngsŏng-3 Unit 2, using an Unha-3 carrier rocket.


||2014 – Ivor Grattan-Guinness, English mathematician, historian, and academic (b. 1941)
||2014: Ivor Grattan-Guinness dies ... mathematician, historian, and academic.


</gallery>
</gallery>

Revision as of 10:01, 22 August 2018

  • 1204: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician Maimonides dies.

    1204: Rabbi, philosopher, astronomer, and physician Maimonides dies.

  • 1685: Mathematician John Pell dies. He expanded the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.

    1685: Mathematician John Pell dies. He expanded the scope of algebra in the theory of equations.

  • 1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão's uses Gnomon algorithm to communicate with John Pell.

    1705: Inventor and priest Bartolomeu de Gusmão's uses Gnomon algorithm to communicate with John Pell.

  • 1862: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.

    1862: USS Cairo sinks on the Yazoo River, becoming the first armored ship to be sunk by an electrically detonated mine.

  • 1901: Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.

    1901: Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.

  • 1921: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt dies. She discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.

    1921: Astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt dies. She discovered the relation between the luminosity and the period of Cepheid variable stars.

  • 1994: Diagram of public-key cryptography generation sell for 1.7 million dollars.

    1994: Diagram of public-key cryptography generation sell for 1.7 million dollars.

Retrieved from "https://gnomonchronicles.com/w/index.php?title=Template:Selected_anniversaries/December_12&oldid=33210"