|
|
| Line 1: |
Line 1: |
| <gallery> | | <gallery> |
| || *** DONE: Pics *** | | || *** DONE: Pics *** |
|
| |
| ||180: Marcus Aurelius dies ... Roman emperor. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1406: Ibn Khaldun dies ... historiographer and historian. He is claimed as a forerunner of the modern disciplines of sociology and demography. Pic (statue).
| |
|
| |
| ||1591: Jost Amman dies ... printmaker. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1686: Jean-Baptiste Oudry born ... painter and engraver. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1704: Menno van Coehoorn dies ... soldier and military engineer ... fortifications, Dutch Vauban. No DOB. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1764: George Parker dies ... astronomer and politician. No DOB. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1780: Mathematician and publisher August Leopold Crelle born. He is the founder of ''Journal für die reine und angewandte Mathematik'' (also known as ''Crelle's Journal''). He befriended Niels Henrik Abel and published seven of Abel's papers in the first volume of his journal. Pic.
| |
|
| |
|
| File:Daniel Bernoulli.jpg|link=Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1782: Mathematician and physicist [[Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Daniel Bernoulli]] dies. Bernoulli is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics. | | File:Daniel Bernoulli.jpg|link=Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|1782: Mathematician and physicist [[Daniel Bernoulli (nonfiction)|Daniel Bernoulli]] dies. Bernoulli is particularly remembered for his applications of mathematics to mechanics, especially fluid mechanics, and for his pioneering work in probability and statistics. |
|
| |
| ||1803: Carl Jacob Löwig born ... chemist and academic. Löwig discovered bromine independently of Antoine Jérôme Balard. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1806: Norbert Rillieux born ... inventor and chemical engineer ... noted for his pioneering invention of the multiple-effect evaporator. This invention was an important development in the growth of the sugar industry. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1808: Carl Friedrich Hindenburg dies ... mathematician born in Dresden. His work centered mostly on combinatorics and probability. Pic: book cover.
| |
|
| |
| ||1820: William F. Raynolds born ... explorer, engineer and U.S. army officer who served in the Mexican–American War and American Civil War. He is best known for leading the 1859–60 Raynolds Expedition while serving as a member of the U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers. During the 1850s and again after his participation in the Civil War, Raynolds was the head engineer on numerous lighthouse construction projects. He oversaw riverway and harbor dredging projects intended to improve accessibility and navigation for shipping. As a cartographer, Raynolds surveyed and mapped the islands and shorelines on the Great Lakes and other regions. At least six lighthouses whose construction he oversaw are still standing. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1826: Innocenzo Manzetti born ... inventor. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1828: James Edward Smith born ... botanist and mycologist, founded the Linnean Society. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1834: Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler born ... engineer, industrial designer and industrialist. Daimler was a pioneer of internal-combustion engines and automobile development. He invented the high-speed liquid petroleum fueled engine. Daimler and his lifelong business partner Wilhelm Maybach were two inventors whose goal was to create small, high-speed engines to be mounted in any kind of locomotion device. In 1883 they designed a horizontal cylinder layout compressed charge liquid petroleum engine that fulfilled Daimler's desire for a high speed engine which could be throttled, making it useful in transportation applications. This engine was called Daimler's Dream. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1846: Friedrich Bessel dies ... astronomer, mathematician, and physicist. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1846: Kate Greenaway born ... author and illustrator ... known for her children's book illustrations. The depictions of children in imaginary 18th-century costumes in a Queen Anne style were extremely popular in England and internationally, sparking the Kate Greenaway style. Pic.
| |
|
| |
|
| File:Christian Doppler.jpg|link=Christian Doppler (nonfiction)|1853: Physicist and mathematician [[Christian Doppler (nonfiction)|Christian Doppler]] dies. Doppler proposed the principle (now known as the Doppler effect) that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observer. He used this concept to explain the color of binary stars. | | File:Christian Doppler.jpg|link=Christian Doppler (nonfiction)|1853: Physicist and mathematician [[Christian Doppler (nonfiction)|Christian Doppler]] dies. Doppler proposed the principle (now known as the Doppler effect) that the observed frequency of a wave depends on the relative speed of the source and the observer. He used this concept to explain the color of binary stars. |
|
| |
| ||1868: René de Saussure born ... Esperantist and professional mathematician (he defended in 1895 a doctoral thesis on a subject in geometry in Geneva), who composed important works about Esperanto and interlinguistics from a linguistic viewpoint. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1881: Walter Rudolf Hess born ... physiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ... brain centers to organs. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1899: Maximilian Herzberger born ... mathematician and physicist, known for his development of the superachromat lens. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1889: Harry Clarke born ... stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Clarke was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1903: Chemist and academic Rudolf Signer born ... contributed to the discovery of the DNA double helix. Pic search.
| |
|
| |
| ||1915: Wolfgang Doeblin born ... mathematician. Pic. Bio film: https://www.amazon.com/Wolfgang-Doeblin-mathematician-rediscovered-VideoMATH/dp/3540719601
| |
|
| |
| ||1920: Donald Hornig born ... chemist, explosives expert, teacher and presidential science advisor; Project Stormfury weather weather modification. Pic search.
| |
|
| |
| ||1931: David Peakall born ... chemist and toxicologist ... egg shells, DDT. Pic search.
| |
|
| |
| ||1939: Florence Steinberg born ... publisher of one of the first independent comic books, the underground/alternative comics hybrid Big Apple Comix, in 1975. Additionally, as the secretary for Marvel Comics editor Stan Lee and the fledgling company's receptionist and fan liaison during the 1960s Silver Age of Comic Books, she was a key participant of and witness to Marvel's expansion from a two-person staff to a pop culture conglomerate. Pic (charming).
| |
|
| |
| ||1941: In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1942: Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1945: Valery Senderov born ... Soviet dissident, mathematician, teacher, and advocate of human rights known for his struggle against state-sponsored antisemitism. Pic search.
| |
|
| |
| ||1950: Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announce the creation of element 98, which they name "californium".
| |
|
| |
| ||1955: Georges Jean Marie Valiron dies ... mathematician, notable for his contributions to analysis, in particular, the asymptotic behaviour of entire functions of finite order and Tauberian theorems. Pic: book cover.
| |
|
| |
| ||1956: Henry Frederick Baker dies ... mathematician, working mainly in algebraic geometry, but also remembered for contributions to partial differential equations (related to what would become known as solitons), and Lie groups. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1956: Irène Joliot-Curie dies ... chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| |File:Eisenhower in the Oval Office February 1956.jpg|link=Crimes against mathematical constants|1957: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised address to the nation, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "[[Crimes against mathematical constants|math crimes complex]]."
| |
|
| |
| ||1958: The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
| |
|
| |
| ||1960: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1962: Wilhelm Blaschke dies ... differential and integral geometer. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1966: Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb. TODO.
| |
|
| |
| ||1968: As a result of nerve gas testing in Skull Valley, Utah, over 6,000 sheep are found dead. The incident log at Dugway Proving Ground indicated that the sheep incident began with a phone call on March 17, 1968, at 12:30 a.m. The director of the University of Utah's ecological and epidemiological contact with Dugway, a Dr. Bode, phoned Keith Smart, the chief of the ecology and epidemiology branch at Dugway to report that 3,000 sheep were dead in the Skull Valley area. The initial report of the incident came to Bode from the manager of a Skull Valley livestock company. The sheep were grazing in an area about 27 mi (43 km) from the proving ground; total sheep deaths of 6,000–6,400 were reported over the next several days as a result of the incident.
| |
|
| |
| ||1972: György Hajós dies ... mathematician who worked in group theory, graph theory, and geometry. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1974: Louis Kahn dies ... architect and academic, designed Jatiyo Sangsad Bhaban. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||1983: Haldan Keffer Hartline dies ... physiologist and academic ... co-recipient (with George Wald and Ragnar Granit) of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in analyzing the neurophysiological mechanisms of vision. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||2003: Su Buqing dies ... mathematician and academic. Pic search.
| |
|
| |
| ||2005: László Fejes Tóth dies ... mathematician who specialized in geometry. Together with H.S.M. Coxeter and Paul Erdős, he laid the foundations of discrete geometry. Pic.
| |
|
| |
|
| File:John Backus.jpg|link=John Backus (nonfiction)|2007: Mathematician and computer scientist [[John Backus (nonfiction)|John Backus]] dies. Backus invented the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation technique for defining formal language syntax. | | File:John Backus.jpg|link=John Backus (nonfiction)|2007: Mathematician and computer scientist [[John Backus (nonfiction)|John Backus]] dies. Backus invented the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation technique for defining formal language syntax. |
|
| |
| ||2007: Kenneth Greisen born ... physicist who worked on nuclear physics and the astrophysics of cosmic rays and gamma radiation. "He will be most remembered for his realization that the cosmic microwave background limits the high-energy end of the spectrum of cosmic ray protons." Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||2015: Guido Zappa dies ... mathematician and a noted group theorist: his other main research interests were geometry and also the history of mathematics. Pic.
| |
|
| |
| ||2016: Solomon Marcus dies ... mathematician, member of the Mathematical Section of the Romanian Academy (full member since 2001) and emeritus professor of the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Mathematics. His main research was in the fields of mathematical analysis, mathematical and computational linguistics and computer science. Pic.
| |
|
| |
|
| </gallery> | | </gallery> |
