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File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1543: Mathematician and astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]] dies. He formulated a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
File:Nikolaus Kopernikus.jpg|link=Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|1543: Mathematician and astronomer [[Nicolaus Copernicus (nonfiction)|Nicolaus Copernicus]] dies. He formulated a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.


||1544 – William Gilbert, English physician, physicist, and astronomer (d. 1603)
||1544: William Gilbert born ... physician, physicist, and astronomer.


File:Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.jpg|link=Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|1686: Physicist and engineer [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]] born.  He will help lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
File:Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit.jpg|link=Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|1686: Physicist and engineer [[Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (nonfiction)|Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit]] born.  He will help lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.
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File:Georg Ernst Stahl.png|link=Georg Ernst Stahl (nonfiction)|1734: Chemist and physician [[Georg Ernst Stahl (nonfiction)|Georg Ernst Stahl]] dies. His works on phlogiston continue to be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.
File:Georg Ernst Stahl.png|link=Georg Ernst Stahl (nonfiction)|1734: Chemist and physician [[Georg Ernst Stahl (nonfiction)|Georg Ernst Stahl]] dies. His works on phlogiston continue to be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.


||1743 – Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician, journalist, and politician (d. 1793)
||1743: Jean-Paul Marat born ... physician, journalist, and politician.


||1794 – William Whewell, English priest and philosopher (d. 1866)
||1794: William Whewell born ... priest and philosopher.


||William Chauvenet (b. 24 May 1820) was a professor of mathematics, astronomy, navigation, and surveying who was instrumental in the establishment of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and later the second chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Pic.
||1820: William Chauvenet born ... professor of mathematics, astronomy, navigation, and surveying who was instrumental in the establishment of the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, and later the second chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Pic.


||1843 – Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (b. 1765)
||1843: Sylvestre François Lacroix dies ... mathematician and academic.


||1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
File:Telegraph.jpg|link=Electrical telegraph (nonfiction) |1844: [[Samuel Morse (nonfiction)|Samuel Morse]] sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial [[Electrical telegraph (nonfiction) |telegraph line]] between Baltimore and Washington D.C.


||1868 – Charlie Taylor, American engineer and mechanic (d. 1956)
||1868: Charlie Taylor born ... engineer and mechanic.


||1906: Harry Hammond Hess born ... geologist who made the first comprehensive attempt at explaining the phenomenon of seafloor spreading (1960). This revived Alfred Wegener's earlier theory of continental drift. Together, these provided an interpretation of the earth's crust in terms of plate tectonics. The surface of the globe is not continuous. Rather, it is broken into a number of huge plates that float on the molten rock under the crust, moved over eons of geologic time by convective currents driven by earth's internal heat. With this motion these plates rub against, collide with, or separate from other plates. Thus the nature of earthquakes and volcanoes could be explained, plus the existence of ridges of young rock mapped around the globe under the ocean where the sea floor was spreading. Pic.
||1906: Harry Hammond Hess born ... geologist who made the first comprehensive attempt at explaining the phenomenon of seafloor spreading (1960). This revived Alfred Wegener's earlier theory of continental drift. Together, these provided an interpretation of the earth's crust in terms of plate tectonics. The surface of the globe is not continuous. Rather, it is broken into a number of huge plates that float on the molten rock under the crust, moved over eons of geologic time by convective currents driven by earth's internal heat. With this motion these plates rub against, collide with, or separate from other plates. Thus the nature of earthquakes and volcanoes could be explained, plus the existence of ridges of young rock mapped around the globe under the ocean where the sea floor was spreading. Pic.


||Herbert Lawrence Anderson (b. May 24, 1914) was a Jewish American nuclear physicist who contributed to the Manhattan Project. He was also a member of the team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States, in the basement of Pupin Hall at Columbia University. He participated in the first atomic bomb test, codenamed Trinity. Pic.
||1914: Herbert Anderson born ... nuclear physicist who contributed to the Manhattan Project. He was also a member of the team which made the first demonstration of nuclear fission in the United States, in the basement of Pupin Hall at Columbia University. He participated in the first atomic bomb test, codenamed Trinity. Pic.


File:Bertram Kostant.jpg|link=Bertram Kostant (nonfiction)|1928: Mathematician [[Bertram Kostant (nonfiction)|Bertram Kostant]] born. He will be one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.
File:Bertram Kostant.jpg|link=Bertram Kostant (nonfiction)|1928: Mathematician [[Bertram Kostant (nonfiction)|Bertram Kostant]] born. He will be one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.
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File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1944: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' reveals Nazi efforts to use [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] for rocket propulsion.
File:Vandal Savage Field Report Peenemunde.jpg|link=Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|1944: ''[[Field Report Number One (Peenemunde)|Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition)]]'' reveals Nazi efforts to use [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] for rocket propulsion.


||1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
||1962: Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.


File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1963: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] used for [[crimes against mathematical constants]], says [[John Brunner]].
File:Plutonium pellet.jpg|link=Plutonium (nonfiction)|1963: [[Plutonium (nonfiction)|Plutonium]] used for [[crimes against mathematical constants]], says [[John Brunner]].


||Lucien Lévy (d. 24 May 1965) was a French 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.
||1965: Lucien Lévy dies ... 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.


Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr (d. May 24, 1974 in Bethesda, Maryland) was an American physicist, the co-discoverer of the neutrino along with Frederick Reines. The discovery was made in 1956 in the neutrino experiment. Frederick Reines received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names.
||Clyde Lorrain Cowan Jr. dies ... physicist, the co-discoverer of the neutrino along with Frederick Reines. The discovery was made in 1956 in the neutrino experiment. Frederick Reines received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1995 in both their names.


||Alfred Schild (d. May 24, 1977) was a leading German-American physicist, well known for his contributions to the Golden age of general relativity (1960–1975).
||1977: Alfred Schild dies ... physicist, well known for his contributions to the Golden age of general relativity (1960–1975).


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  • 1089: Celebrated jurist and monk Lanfranc dies.

    1089: Celebrated jurist and monk Lanfranc dies.

  • 1543: Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus dies. He formulated a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.

    1543: Mathematician and astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus dies. He formulated a model of the universe that places the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.

  • 1686: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit born. He will help lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.

    1686: Physicist and engineer Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit born. He will help lay the foundations for the era of precision thermometry by inventing the mercury-in-glass thermometer and the Fahrenheit scale.

  • 1734: Chemist and physician Georg Ernst Stahl dies. His works on phlogiston continue to be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.

    1734: Chemist and physician Georg Ernst Stahl dies. His works on phlogiston continue to be accepted as an explanation for chemical processes until the late 18th century.

  • 1844: Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.

    1844: Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.

  • 1928: Mathematician Bertram Kostant born. He will be one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.

    1928: Mathematician Bertram Kostant born. He will be one of the principal developers of the theory of geometric quantization.

  • 1940: Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.

    1940: Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.

  • 1944: Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition) reveals Nazi efforts to use Gnomon algorithm functions for rocket propulsion.

    1944: Field Report Number One (Peenemunde edition) reveals Nazi efforts to use Gnomon algorithm functions for rocket propulsion.

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