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||1533 – Paul Luther, German scientist (d. 1593)
||1533: Paul Luther born ... scientist.


File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1540: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.
File:Ludolf van Ceulen.jpg|link=Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|1540: Mathematician and fencer [[Ludolph van Ceulen (nonfiction)|Ludolph van Ceulen]] born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.


||Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (b. 28 January 1608) was a Renaissance Italian physiologist, physicist, and mathematician. He contributed to the modern principle of scientific investigation by continuing Galileo's practice of testing hypotheses against observation.
||1608: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli born ... physiologist, physicist, and mathematician. He contributed to the modern principle of scientific investigation by continuing Galileo's practice of testing hypotheses against observation.


||Johannes Hevelius (b. 28 January 1611) was a councillor and mayor of Danzig (Gdańsk). As an astronomer, he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography", and described ten new constellations, seven of which are still recognized by astronomers. Pic.
||1611: Johannes Hevelius born ... a councillor and mayor of Danzig (Gdańsk). As an astronomer, he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography", and described ten new constellations, seven of which are still recognized by astronomers. Pic.


||1622 – Adrien Auzout, French astronomer and instrument maker (d. 1691)
||1622: Adrien Auzout born ... astronomer and instrument maker.


||Johannes Hevelius (d. 28 January 1687) was a councillor and mayor of Danzig (Gdańsk). As an astronomer, he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography", and described ten new constellations, seven of which are still recognized by astronomers. Pic.
||1687: Johannes Hevelius dies ... was a councillor and mayor of Danzig (Gdańsk). As an astronomer, he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography", and described ten new constellations, seven of which are still recognized by astronomers. Pic.


||1701 – Charles Marie de La Condamine, French mathematician and geographer (d. 1774)
||1701: Charles Marie de La Condamine born ... mathematician and geographer.


||Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring (d. 2 March 1830) was a German physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor. Sömmerring discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye. His investigations on the brain and the nervous system, on the sensory organs, on the embryo and its malformations, on the structure of the lungs, etc., made him one of the most important German anatomists.
||1830: Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring dies ... physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor. Sömmerring discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye. His investigations on the brain and the nervous system, on the sensory organs, on the embryo and its malformations, on the structure of the lungs, etc., made him one of the most important German anatomists.


File:Sekiya Seikei.jpg|link=Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|1855: Geologist [[Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|Sekiya Seikei]] born. He will be one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake.
File:Sekiya Seikei.jpg|link=Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|1855: Geologist [[Sekiya Seikei (nonfiction)|Sekiya Seikei]] born. He will be one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake.


||1864 – Émile Clapeyron, French physicist and engineer (b. 1799)
||1864: Émile Clapeyron dies ... physicist and engineer.


File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1883: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] invents method of converting alternating current (AC) into [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], revealing new techniques for preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Nikolai Tesla 1896.jpg|link=Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|1883: Electrical engineer [[Nikola Tesla (nonfiction)|Nikola Tesla]] invents method of converting alternating current (AC) into [[Gnomon algorithm functions]], revealing new techniques for preventing [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
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File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|185: Space pilot and alleged time-traveller [[Henrietta Bolt]] predicts that [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] will "grow up to reach amazing heights, then go on to reach amazing depths."
File:Henrietta Bolt.jpg|link=Henrietta Bolt|185: Space pilot and alleged time-traveller [[Henrietta Bolt]] predicts that [[Auguste Piccard (nonfiction)|Auguste Piccard]] will "grow up to reach amazing heights, then go on to reach amazing depths."


||1886 – Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese engineer and academic (d. 1976). He wrote several articles that introduced a new antenna designed by his colleague Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world. Pic.
||1886: Hidetsugu Yagi born ... engineer and academic. He wrote several articles that introduced a new antenna designed by his colleague Shintaro Uda to the English-speaking world. Pic.


||Joseph-Émile Barbier (d. 1889) was a French astronomer and mathematician, known for Barbier's theorem on the perimeter of curves of constant width.
||1888: Louis Joel Mordell born ... mathematician, known for pioneering research in number theory.  Pic.


||Alfredo Capelli (d. 28 January 1910) was an Italian mathematician who discovered Capelli's identity.
||1889: Joseph-Émile Barbier dies ... astronomer and mathematician, known for Barbier's theorem on the perimeter of curves of constant width.


||Dame Kathleen Lonsdale, DBE, FRS (b. 28 January 1903) was a British crystallographer who proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate the structure of hexamethylbenzene. She was the first to use Fourier spectral methods while solving the structure of hexachlorobenzene in 1931.
||1910: Alfredo Capelli dies ... mathematician who discovered Capelli's identity.


|File:Scrimshaw binge residue.jpg|link=Scrimshaw abuse|1910: [[Scrimshaw abuse]] correlates with rise in [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
||1903: Dame Kathleen Lonsdale born ... crystallographer who proved, in 1929, that the benzene ring is flat by using X-ray diffraction methods to elucidate the structure of hexamethylbenzene. She was the first to use Fourier spectral methods while solving the structure of hexachlorobenzene in 1931.


||1922 – Robert W. Holley, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
||1922: Robert W. Holley born ... biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||1925 – Raja Ramanna, Indian physicist and politician (d. 2004)
||1925: Raja Ramanna born ... physicist and politician.


||1932 – Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
||1932: Japanese forces attack Shanghai.


||Richard Baldus (d. 28 January 1945) was a German mathematician, specializing in geometry. Pic.
||1945: Richard Baldus dies ... mathematician, specializing in geometry. Pic.


||1945 – Maxwell Fuller, Australian chess player (d. 2013)
||1945: Maxwell Fuller dies ... chess player.


File:Nikolai Luzin stamp.jpg|link=Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician, theorist, and academic [[Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|Nikolai Luzin]] dies. He contributed to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.
File:Nikolai Luzin stamp.jpg|link=Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|1950: Mathematician, theorist, and academic [[Nikolai Luzin (nonfiction)|Nikolai Luzin]] dies. He contributed to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.
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File:Ranger 3-4-5 probe.jpg|link=Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|1962: [[Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|Ranger 3]] space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).
File:Ranger 3-4-5 probe.jpg|link=Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|1962: [[Ranger 3 (nonfiction)|Ranger 3]] space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).


||1986 – Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.
||1986: Space Shuttle program: STS-51-L mission: Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts on board.


File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1988: Physicist [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs]] dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.
File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1988: Physicist [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs]] dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.


||1993 – Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer and academic (b. 1905)
||1993: Helen Sawyer Hogg dies ... astronomer and academic.


|File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|2002: Tokens harvested from [[Diagramaceous soil]] used to cure [[Capacitor plague (nonfiction)|capacitor plague]] for the first time.
||2012: Roman Juszkiewicz dies ... astrophysicist whose work concerned fundamental issues of cosmology. Pic.


||Roman Juszkiewicz (d. 28 January 2012) was a Polish astrophysicist whose work concerned fundamental issues of cosmology. Pic.
||2015: Yves Chauvin dies ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate.


||2015 – Yves Chauvin, French chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1930)
||2017: John Norman Mather dies ... mathematician at Princeton University known for his work on singularity theory and Hamiltonian dynamics.  Pic.
 
||John Norman Mather (d. January 28, 2017) was a mathematician at Princeton University known for his work on singularity theory and Hamiltonian dynamics.  Pic.


File:Burglars excerpt 1.jpg|link=Burglars (Gnomon Chronicles)|2018: Signed first edition of an [[Burglars (Gnomon Chronicles)|excerpt from "Burglars"]] sells for two and a half million dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].
File:Burglars excerpt 1.jpg|link=Burglars (Gnomon Chronicles)|2018: Signed first edition of an [[Burglars (Gnomon Chronicles)|excerpt from "Burglars"]] sells for two and a half million dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of [[crimes against mathematical constants]].

Revision as of 08:52, 18 September 2018

  • 1540: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.

    1540: Mathematician and fencer Ludolph van Ceulen born. He will spend a major part of his life calculating the numerical value of the mathematical constant π.

  • 1855: Geologist Sekiya Seikei born. He will be one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake.

    1855: Geologist Sekiya Seikei born. He will be one of the first seismologists, influential in establishing the study of seismology in Japan and known for his model showing the motion of an earth-particle during an earthquake.

  • 1883: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla invents method of converting alternating current (AC) into Gnomon algorithm functions, revealing new techniques for preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

    1883: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla invents method of converting alternating current (AC) into Gnomon algorithm functions, revealing new techniques for preventing crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 1884: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard born. He will make record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he will study Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invent of the first bathyscaphe.

    1884: Physicist and explorer Auguste Piccard born. He will make record-breaking hot air balloon flights, with which he will study Earth's upper atmosphere and cosmic rays, and invent of the first bathyscaphe.

  • 185: Space pilot and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt predicts that Auguste Piccard will "grow up to reach amazing heights, then go on to reach amazing depths."

    185: Space pilot and alleged time-traveller Henrietta Bolt predicts that Auguste Piccard will "grow up to reach amazing heights, then go on to reach amazing depths."

  • 1950: Mathematician, theorist, and academic Nikolai Luzin dies. He contributed to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.

    1950: Mathematician, theorist, and academic Nikolai Luzin dies. He contributed to descriptive set theory and aspects of mathematical analysis with strong connections to point-set topology.

  • 1961: Brainiac Explains lecture series spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.

    1961: Brainiac Explains lecture series spends ten weeks on New York Times bestseller list.

  • 1962: Ranger 3 space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).

    1962: Ranger 3 space probe misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400 km).

  • 1988: Physicist Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.

    1988: Physicist Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs dies. He was convicted of supplying information from the Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after the Second World War.

  • 2018: Signed first edition of an excerpt from "Burglars" sells for two and a half million dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

    2018: Signed first edition of an excerpt from "Burglars" sells for two and a half million dollars in charity auction to benefit victims of crimes against mathematical constants.

  • 2016: Steganographic analysis of Lend a Hand unexpected reveals "at least half a megabyte" of encrypted data relating to organic golem technology.

    2016: Steganographic analysis of Lend a Hand unexpected reveals "at least half a megabyte" of encrypted data relating to organic golem technology.

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