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||1902: Johannes Wislicenus dies ... chemist, most famous for his work in early stereochemistry. Pic. | ||1902: Johannes Wislicenus dies ... chemist, most famous for his work in early stereochemistry. Pic. | ||
||1903: C. F. Powell born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1903: C. F. Powell born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1907: Giuseppe Occhialini born ... physicist and academic. | ||1907: Giuseppe Occhialini born ... physicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1911: Academic and inventor Warren Seymour Johnson dies. His multi-zone pneumatic control system solved the problem. Johnson’s system for temperature regulation was adopted worldwide for office buildings, schools, hospitals, and hotels – essentially any large building with multiple rooms that required temperature regulation. Pic. | ||1911: Academic and inventor Warren Seymour Johnson dies. His multi-zone pneumatic control system solved the problem. Johnson’s system for temperature regulation was adopted worldwide for office buildings, schools, hospitals, and hotels – essentially any large building with multiple rooms that required temperature regulation. Pic. | ||
||1915: Ren Xinmin born ... aerospace engineer. | ||1915: Ren Xinmin born ... aerospace engineer. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=ren+xinmin | ||
||1916: Hilary Koprowski born ... virologist and immunologist, created the world's first effective live polio vaccine. | ||1916: Hilary Koprowski born ... virologist and immunologist, created the world's first effective live polio vaccine. | ||
||1922: Joachim "Jim" Lambek born ... Professor of Pure Mathematics. | ||1922: Joachim "Jim" Lambek born ... Professor of Pure Mathematics. Pic. | ||
File:Fugitive Rubies and hand x-ray.jpg|link=Evil bit release|1923: Photograph says it captured moment of [[Evil bit release]]. | File:Fugitive Rubies and hand x-ray.jpg|link=Evil bit release|1923: Photograph says it captured moment of [[Evil bit release]]. | ||
||1924: Abram Fet born ... mathematician, philosopher, translator. | ||1924: Abram Fet born ... mathematician, philosopher, translator. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Abram+Fet | ||
||1931: Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin. | ||1931: Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin. | ||
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||1949: Alfred James Lotka dies ... mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician, famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics. An American biophysicist, Lotka is best known for his proposal of the predator–prey model, developed simultaneously but independently of Vito Volterra. The Lotka–Volterra model is still the basis of many models used in the analysis of population dynamics in ecology. Pic. | ||1949: Alfred James Lotka dies ... mathematician, physical chemist, and statistician, famous for his work in population dynamics and energetics. An American biophysicist, Lotka is best known for his proposal of the predator–prey model, developed simultaneously but independently of Vito Volterra. The Lotka–Volterra model is still the basis of many models used in the analysis of population dynamics in ecology. Pic. | ||
||1953: William Sterling | ||1953: William Sterling Parsons dies ... American naval officer who worked as an ordnance expert on the Manhattan Project during World War II. Pic. | ||
||1955: Glenn L. Martin dies ... pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company. | ||1955: Glenn L. Martin dies ... pilot and businessman, founded the Glenn L. Martin Company. | ||
Revision as of 18:07, 26 December 2018
1601: After weeks at of hunting at sea, submarine inventor Cornelius Drebbel locates the marine cryptid and alleged supervillain Neptune Slaughter. The resulting battle will permanently drive Neptune Slaughter from Dutch waters, but at the cost of more than half of Drebbel's crew.
1708: Mathematician Seki Takakazu dies. He created a new algebraic notation system and, motivated by astronomical computations, did work on infinitesimal calculus and Diophantine equations. Seki laid foundations for the subsequent development of Japanese mathematics known as wasan; he has been described as "Japan's Newton".
1772: Astronomer and mathematician Nicole-Reine Lepaute publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against astronomical constants.
1872: The crewless American ship Mary Celeste is found by the Canadian brig Dei Gratia. The ship had been abandoned for nine days but was only slightly damaged.
1873: Newly discovered illustration of The Eel fighting Neptune Slaughter is "almost certainly a record of events related to the abandonment of Mary Celeste," says math photographer Cantor Parabola.
1901: Physicist and academic Werner Heisenberg born. He will introduce the uncertainty principle -- in quantum mechanics, any of a variety of mathematical inequalities asserting a fundamental limit to the precision with which certain pairs of physical properties of a particle can be known.
1923: Photograph says it captured moment of Evil bit release.
1932: German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
1964: Color commentators announce formation of Color Commentator's Union.
1966: George Plimpton embeds himself within Color Commentator's Union as participatory journalist.
1999: Mathematician Nathan Jacobson dies. He conducted research on the structure theory of rings without finiteness conditions--a subject closely related to the theory of algebras--which transformed the approach to classical results and broke ground for solutions to problems inaccessible by previous methods.
2008: Chemist and composer George Brecht dies. He was an American conceptual artist and avant-garde composer, as well as a professional chemist who worked as a consultant for companies including Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Mobil Oil.
2018: Confessions of a Quantum Artist-Engineer voted Publication of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.