Template:Selected anniversaries/February 15: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 8: | Line 8: | ||
||1739: Eustachio Manfredi dies ... mathematician, astronomer and poet. Pic. | ||1739: Eustachio Manfredi dies ... mathematician, astronomer and poet. Pic. | ||
||1747: François Dominique Séraphin born ... entertainer who developed and popularized shadow plays in France. The art form would go on to be copied across Europe. | ||1747: François Dominique Séraphin born ... entertainer who developed and popularized shadow plays in France. The art form would go on to be copied across Europe. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=Fran%C3%A7ois+Dominique+S%C3%A9raphin | ||
||1825: Naval engineer Gustave Zédé born. He will be a pioneering designer of submarines. Pic. | ||1825: Naval engineer Gustave Zédé born. He will be a pioneering designer of submarines. Pic. |
Revision as of 16:07, 5 December 2019
1564: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician Galileo Galilei born. He will be called the "father of modern physics".
1589: Astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, mathematician, and crime-fighter Galileo Galilei uses Gnomon algorithm techniques to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.
1861: Mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead born. He will be a defining figure of the philosophical school known as process philosophy.
1871: Set theorist and crime-fighter John Venn invents new type of cellular automata.
1946: ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
1959: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson dies. He won the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
1988: Theoretical physicist and academic Richard Feynman dies. For his contributions to the development of quantum electrodynamic he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965.
2011: The Stardust spacecraft flies by comet Tempel 1.