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||1665: Samuel Pepys sees a copy of Hooke’s Micrographia at his bookseller and orders a copy. “Thence to my bookseller's and at his binder's saw Hooke's book of the Microscope, which is so pretty that I presently bespoke it.” *Pepy’s Diary https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/01/on-this-day-in-math-january-2.html | || *** DONE: Pics *** | ||
||1665: Samuel Pepys sees a copy of Hooke’s ''Micrographia'' at his bookseller and orders a copy. “Thence to my bookseller's and at his binder's saw Hooke's book of the Microscope, which is so pretty that I presently bespoke it.” *Pepy’s Diary https://pballew.blogspot.com/2019/01/on-this-day-in-math-january-2.html | |||
||1719: Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat born ... shipbuilder and merchant. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J._A._Laffon_de_Ladebat.jpg | ||1719: Jacques-Alexandre Laffon de Ladebat born ... shipbuilder and merchant. Pic: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:J._A._Laffon_de_Ladebat.jpg | ||
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File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] born. He will prove that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant. | File:Lev Schnirelmann.jpg|link=Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|1905: Mathematician [[Lev Schnirelmann (nonfiction)|Lev Schnirelmann]] born. He will prove that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant. | ||
||1913: Léon Teisserenc de Bort dies ... meteorologist and climatologist ... credited as co-discoverer of the stratosphere, as both men announced their discovery during the same time period in 1902.[1] Teisserenc de Bort pioneered the use of unmanned instrumented balloons and was the first to identify the region in the atmosphere around 8-17 kilometers of height where the lapse rate reaches zero, known today as the tropopause. Pic. | |||
||1918: Willi Graf born ... physician and activist. Pic. | ||1918: Willi Graf born ... physician and activist. Pic. | ||
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File:Luna_1_(museum_replica).jpg|link=Luna 1 (nonfiction)|1959: [[Luna 1 (nonfiction)|Luna 1]], the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union. | File:Luna_1_(museum_replica).jpg|link=Luna 1 (nonfiction)|1959: [[Luna 1 (nonfiction)|Luna 1]], the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union. | ||
||1972: Gale Ann Benson dies ... model, socialite and daughter of Conservative MP Leonard Plugge. She was buried alive and murdered in Trinidad by activist Michael X and members of his Black Power group. Pic. | |||
||1972: Gale Ann Benson dies ... model, socialite and daughter of Conservative MP Leonard Plugge. She was buried alive and murdered in Trinidad by activist Michael X and members of his Black Power group. | |||
||1988: E. B. Ford dies ... biologist and geneticist ... Ford investigated the role of natural selection in nature ... studied the genetics of natural populations, and invented the field of ecological genetics. Pic. | ||1988: E. B. Ford dies ... biologist and geneticist ... Ford investigated the role of natural selection in nature ... studied the genetics of natural populations, and invented the field of ecological genetics. Pic. |
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1822: Rudolf Clausius born. He will be one of the central founders of the science of thermodynamics.
1892: Mathematician and astronomer George Biddell Airy dies. His achievements include work on planetary orbits, measuring the mean density of the Earth, and, in his role as Astronomer Royal, establishing Greenwich as the location of the prime meridian.
1904: Physicist and chemist Walter Heinrich Heitler born. He will make contributions to quantum electrodynamics and quantum field theory, bringing chemistry under quantum mechanics through his theory of valence bonding.
1905: Mathematician Lev Schnirelmann born. He will prove that any natural number greater than 1 can be written as the sum of not more than C prime numbers, where C is an effectively computable constant.
1919: New type of scrying engine used to predict crimes against mathematical constants.
1920: Writer Isaac Asimov born. He will be considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime.
1943: Vandal Savage Press publishes the V-2 edition of Field Report Number One.
1959: Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
2004: The robotic spacecraft Stardust flies by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to Earth on 15 January 2006.
2016: Stardust voted Picture of the Day by the citizens of New Minneapolis, Canada.