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File:Van meegeren trial.jpg|link=Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|1889: Painter and forger [[Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|Han van Meegeren]] born. He will be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century. | File:Van meegeren trial.jpg|link=Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|1889: Painter and forger [[Han van Meegeren (nonfiction)|Han van Meegeren]] born. He will be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century. | ||
||1897: Chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin). | ||1897: Chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin). Pic. | ||
||1919: Arvid Gerhard Damm files for a patent (Swedish patent #52,279) on a rotor machine | ||1919: Arvid Gerhard Damm files for a patent (Swedish patent #52,279) on a rotor machine. No pic online for the man, but yes pic for the machine. | ||
||1924: Pierre Dolbeault born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||1924: Pierre Dolbeault born ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1925: William Dale Phillips born ... chemist, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopist, federal science policy advisor. Pic: https://www.nap.edu/read/9977/chapter/11 | ||1925: William Dale Phillips born ... chemist, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopist, federal science policy advisor. Pic: https://www.nap.edu/read/9977/chapter/11 and https://academictree.org/chemistry/peopleinfo.php?pid=52514 | ||
||1927: Gustave Whitehead dies ... pilot and engineer. | ||1927: Gustave Whitehead dies ... pilot and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1929: Elijah J. McCoy dies ... inventor and engineer who was notable for his 57 U.S. patents, most having to do with the lubrication of steam engines. | ||1929: Elijah J. McCoy dies ... inventor and engineer who was notable for his 57 U.S. patents, most having to do with the lubrication of steam engines. Pic. | ||
||1930: Yves Chauvin born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1930: Yves Chauvin born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1936: Gerhard Ertl, German physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018). | ||1936: Gerhard Ertl, German physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (alive August 2018). | ||
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File:Janet Beta Accepts Commission (detail).jpg|link=Janet Beta|1943: Mathematician and soldier [[Janet Beta]] accepts commission with secret military-intelligence program [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]]. | File:Janet Beta Accepts Commission (detail).jpg|link=Janet Beta|1943: Mathematician and soldier [[Janet Beta]] accepts commission with secret military-intelligence program [[ENIAC (SETI)|ENIAC]]. | ||
||1949: Chikuhei Nakajima dies ... engineer, businessman, and politician, founded Nakajima Aircraft Company. | ||1949: Chikuhei Nakajima dies ... engineer, businessman, and politician, founded Nakajima Aircraft Company. Pic. | ||
||1957: Windscale fire nuclear accident: ... took place in Unit 1 of the two-pile Windscale facility on the northwest coast of England in Cumberland (now Sellafield, Cumbria). The two graphite-moderated reactors, referred to at the time as "piles", had been built as part of the British post-war atomic bomb project. The fire burned for three days and there was a release of radioactive contamination that spread across the UK and Europe. Pic. | ||1957: Windscale fire nuclear accident: ... took place in Unit 1 of the two-pile Windscale facility on the northwest coast of England in Cumberland (now Sellafield, Cumbria). The two graphite-moderated reactors, referred to at the time as "piles", had been built as part of the British post-war atomic bomb project. The fire burned for three days and there was a release of radioactive contamination that spread across the UK and Europe. Pic. | ||
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||1975: Norman Levinson dies ... mathematician. Some of his major contributions were in the study of Fourier transforms, complex analysis, non-linear differential equations, number theory, and signal processing. Pic: https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/norman-levinson/ | ||1975: Norman Levinson dies ... mathematician. Some of his major contributions were in the study of Fourier transforms, complex analysis, non-linear differential equations, number theory, and signal processing. Pic: https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/norman-levinson/ | ||
||1979: Heinrich Adolph Louis Behnke | ||1979: Heinrich Adolph Louis Behnke dies ... mathematician. Pic. | ||
||1979: Christopher Evans dies ... psychologist, computer scientist, and author. | ||1979: Christopher Evans dies ... psychologist, computer scientist, and author. | ||
Revision as of 16:12, 19 December 2018
1641: Torricelli arrives in Arcetri to study with Galileo. ".. postpone his arrival at Arcetri until 10 October 1641. He took up residence in Galileo’s house, where Vincenzo Viviani was already living, and stayed there in close friendship with Galileo until the latter’s death on 8 January 1642.
1708: Mathematician and astronomer David Gregory dies. At the Union of 1707, he was given the responsibility of reorganizing the Scottish Mint.
1730: Physicist and crime-fighter Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit uses precision thermometry to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1731: Chemist, physicist, and philosopher Henry Cavendish born. He will discover "inflammable air", later named hydrogen.
1888: Steganographic analysis of Alice Beta and Niles Cartouchian Play Chess reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.
1889: Painter and forger Han van Meegeren born. He will be one of the most ingenious art forgers of the 20th century.
1943: Mathematician and soldier Janet Beta accepts commission with secret military-intelligence program ENIAC.
2016: Crimson Blossom voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.