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||121: Marcus Aurelius born ... Roman emperor. Pic.
File:Jean_Fernel.jpg|link=Jean Fernel (nonfiction)|1558: Physician [[Jean Fernel (nonfiction)|Jean Fernel]] dies. Fernel ntroduced the term "physiology" to describe the study of the body's function, and was the first person to describe the spinal canal.
File:Jean_Fernel.jpg|link=Jean Fernel (nonfiction)|1558: Physician [[Jean Fernel (nonfiction)|Jean Fernel]] dies. Fernel ntroduced the term "physiology" to describe the study of the body's function, and was the first person to describe the spinal canal.
File:Thomas Reid.jpg|link=Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|1710: Mathematician and philosopher [[Thomas Reid (nonfiction)|Thomas Reid]] born. Reid will argue that common sense (in a special philosophical sense of ''sensus communis'') is, or at least should be, at the foundation of all philosophical inquiry, justifying our belief that there is an external world.
||1740: Anton Felkel dies ... mathematician who worked on the determination of prime numbers. Pic.
||1774: Christian Leopold von Buch born ... geologist and paleontologist. Pic.
File:Eugène Delacroix.jpg|link=Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|1798: Artist [[Eugène Delacroix (nonfiction)|Eugène Delacroix]] born. His use of expressive brushstrokes and his study of the optical effects of color will shape the work of the Impressionists.
||1803: Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the skies of L'Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
||1832: Robert Tucker born ... mathematician, who was secretary of the London Mathematical Society for more than 30 years. Pic.
||1870: Zerah Colburn dies ... engineer specialising in steam locomotive design, technical journalist and publisher. Pic.


File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1879: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] dies. He invented the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.
File:Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.jpg|link=Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|1879: Printer, bookseller, and inventor [[Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville (nonfiction)|Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville]] dies. He invented the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.


File:Owen Richardson.jpg|link=Owen Willans Richardson (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist and academic [[Owen Willans Richardson (nonfiction)|Owen Willans Richardson]] born. He will win the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
File:Owen Richardson.jpg|link=Owen Willans Richardson (nonfiction)|1879: Physicist and academic [[Owen Willans Richardson (nonfiction)|Owen Willans Richardson]] born. He will win the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.
||1882: Emil Hilb born ... mathematician who worked in the fields of special functions, differential equations, and difference equations. Pic.
||1988: Guillermo Haro Barraza dies ... astronomer. Through his own astronomical research and the formation of new institutions, Haro was influential in the development of modern observational astronomy in Mexico. Internationally, he is best known for his contribution to the discovery of Herbig–Haro objects. Pic.
||1889: Ludwig Wittgenstein born ... philosopher and academic. He worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Pic.
||1891: Naval engineer Gustave Zédé dies.  He was a pioneering designer of submarines. Pic.
||1900: Charles Francis Richter born ... seismologist and physicist. Pic.
||1900: David M. Dennison born ... physicist who made contributions to quantum mechanics, spectroscopy, and the physics of molecular structure. Pic.
File:Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs.jpg|link=Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1902: Mathematician and academic [[Lazarus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Lazarus Immanuel Fuchs]] dies. He contributed important research in the field of linear differential equations. Fuchs is the eponym of Fuchsian groups and functions, and the Picard–Fuchs equation.
||1914: Eduard Suess dies ... geologist who helped lay the basis for paleogeography and tectonics (the study of the architecture and evolution of the Earth's outer rocky shell). He was an authority on structural geology, especially of mountains, and postulated the existence of the giant land mass Gondwanaland. Pic.
File:Srinivasa_Ramanujan.jpg|link=Srinivasa Ramanujan (nonfiction)|1920: Mathematician and theorist [[Srinivasa Ramanujan (nonfiction)|Srinivasa Ramanujan]] dies. He made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable.
||1921: Margaret Mary Gowing née Elliott born ... was an English historian. She was involved with the production of several volumes of the officially sponsored History of the Second World War, but was better known for her books, commissioned by the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, covering the early history of Britain's nuclear weapons programs. Pic.
||1924: Gyula Kosice born ... sculptor, plastic artist, and poet. He was one of the most important figures in kinetic and luminal art and luminance vanguard. Pic. TO_DO: IN CHRONICLES.
||1927: Michel André Kervaire ... mathematician who made significant contributions to topology and algebra. He introduced the Kervaire semi-characteristic. Pic search.
||1932: Michael Smith born ... biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1933: Arno Allan Penzias, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. (Alive April 2020.)
||1933: The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established.
||1937: Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
||1938: Leonid Plyushch dies ... mathematician, academic, dissident. Pic.
||1940: Carl Bosch dies ... chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic.
||1945: Sigmund Rascher dies ... German physician - SS deadly experiments. Pic search.
||1946: James Larkin White born ... miner, explorer, and park ranger. Pic.
||1951: Arnold Sommerfeld dies ... physicist and academic. Pic.
||1952: The Grauballe Man's body was first discovered buried in a bog by a team of peat diggers.


File:Castle Union.jpg|link=Castle Union (nonfiction)|1954: [[Castle Union (nonfiction)|Castle Union]] nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll: the United States detonates the TX-14 thermonuclear weapon, one of the first deployed U.S. thermonuclear bombs. The explosion causes extensive fallout. Castle Union was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of United States nuclear tests. It was the first test of the TX-14 thermonuclear weapon (initially the "emergency capability" EC-14), one of the first deployed U.S. thermonuclear bombs. Pic.
File:Castle Union.jpg|link=Castle Union (nonfiction)|1954: [[Castle Union (nonfiction)|Castle Union]] nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll: the United States detonates the TX-14 thermonuclear weapon, one of the first deployed U.S. thermonuclear bombs. The explosion causes extensive fallout. Castle Union was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of United States nuclear tests. It was the first test of the TX-14 thermonuclear weapon (initially the "emergency capability" EC-14), one of the first deployed U.S. thermonuclear bombs. Pic.
||1960: Wander Johannes de Haas dies ... physicist and mathematician. He is best known for the Shubnikov–de Haas effect, the de Haas–van Alphen effect and the Einstein–de Haas effect. Pic: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wander_Johannes_de_Haas
||1962: NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
||1985: Roman Czerniawski dies ... air force officer and spy. Pic.


File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: A [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]] in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine).
File:Chernobyl disaster.jpg|link=Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|1986: A [[Chernobyl disaster (nonfiction)|nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant]] in the Soviet Union (now Ukraine).
File:Yuval_Ne'eman.jpg|link=Theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician|2006: [[Yuval Ne'eman (nonfiction)|Yuval Ne'eman]] dies. Ne'eman discovered the classification of hadrons through the SU(3) flavor symmetry (now named the Eightfold Way, and proposed independently by Murray Gell-Mann).
||2009: Hans Holzer dies ... paranormal investigator and author. Pic.
||2014: Georgy Maximovich Adelson-Velsky dies ... mathematician and computer scientist. Pic: https://memim.com/georgy-adelson-velsky.html
||2014: Jacqueline Ferrand dies ... mathematician and academic. Ferrand worked on conformal representation theory, potential theory, and Riemannian manifolds. Pic search.
||2014: Gerald Stanford Guralnik dies ... Professor of Physics at Brown University. In 1964 he co-discovered the Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson with C. R. Hagen and Tom Kibble. Pic.


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Revision as of 03:05, 23 April 2022

  • 1558: Physician Jean Fernel dies. Fernel ntroduced the term "physiology" to describe the study of the body's function, and was the first person to describe the spinal canal.

    1558: Physician Jean Fernel dies. Fernel ntroduced the term "physiology" to describe the study of the body's function, and was the first person to describe the spinal canal.

  • 1879: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville dies. He invented the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.

    1879: Printer, bookseller, and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville dies. He invented the phonoautograph, which records an audio signal as a photographic image.

  • 1879: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson born. He will win the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.

    1879: Physicist and academic Owen Willans Richardson born. He will win the 1928 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's law.

  • 1954: Castle Union nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll: the United States detonates the TX-14 thermonuclear weapon, one of the first deployed U.S. thermonuclear bombs. The explosion causes extensive fallout. Castle Union was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of United States nuclear tests. It was the first test of the TX-14 thermonuclear weapon (initially the "emergency capability" EC-14), one of the first deployed U.S. thermonuclear bombs. Pic.

    1954: Castle Union nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll: the United States detonates the TX-14 thermonuclear weapon, one of the first deployed U.S. thermonuclear bombs. The explosion causes extensive fallout. Castle Union was the code name given to one of the tests in the Operation Castle series of United States nuclear tests. It was the first test of the TX-14 thermonuclear weapon (initially the "emergency capability" EC-14), one of the first deployed U.S. thermonuclear bombs. Pic.

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