Template:Selected anniversaries/May 22: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
| (13 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
||1570: The first atlas, ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'', is published with 70 maps. | ||1570: The first atlas, ''Theatrum Orbis Terrarum'', is published with 70 maps. ??? | ||
File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds. | File:Giordano Bruno.jpg|link=Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|1592: [[Giordano Bruno (nonfiction)|Giordano Bruno]] arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds. | ||
||1666: Gaspar Schott dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic: sketch by Schott of Magdeburg spheres. Pic search | ||1666: Gaspar Schott dies ... physicist and mathematician. Pic: sketch by Schott of Magdeburg spheres. Pic search. | ||
||1783: William Sturgeon born ... physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor. Pic. | ||1783: William Sturgeon born ... physicist and inventor, invented the electromagnet and electric motor. Pic. | ||
||1803: Chemist Charles Frédéric Kuhlmann born. He patented the reaction for converting ammonia to nitric acid, which was later used in the Ostwald process. Pic. | |||
||1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri. | ||1804: The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially began as the Corps of Discovery departed from St. Charles, Missouri. | ||
||1849: Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent. | ||1849: Future U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is issued a patent for an invention to lift boats, making him the only U.S. President to ever hold a patent. Pic. | ||
||1856: Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery. | ||1856: Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina severely beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate for a speech Sumner had made regarding Southerners and slavery. | ||
||1859: Arthur Conan Doyle born ... writer. Pic. | |||
||1967: Josip Plemelj dies ... mathematician, whose main contributions were to the theory of analytic functions and the application of integral equations to potential theory. Pic. | ||1967: Josip Plemelj dies ... mathematician, whose main contributions were to the theory of analytic functions and the application of integral equations to potential theory. Pic. | ||
| Line 22: | Line 26: | ||
||1893: Bronisław Knaster born ... mathematician. He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum. Pic. | ||1893: Bronisław Knaster born ... mathematician. He is known for his work in point-set topology and in particular for his discoveries in 1922 of the hereditarily indecomposable continuum or pseudo-arc and of the Knaster continuum, or buckethandle continuum. Pic. | ||
||1895: Isaac Peral dies ... engineer, naval officer and designer of the Peral Submarine. He joined the Spanish navy in 1866, and developed the first electric-powered submarine which was launched in 1888, but it was not accepted by the naval authorities. He then left the navy to develop other inventions commercially. Pic. | |||
||1900: Herbert Alois Wagner born ... scientist who developed numerous innovations in the fields of aerodynamics, aircraft structures and guided weapons. He is most famous for Wagner's function describing unsteady lift on wings and developing the Henschel Hs 293 glide bomb. Pic. | ||1900: Herbert Alois Wagner born ... scientist who developed numerous innovations in the fields of aerodynamics, aircraft structures and guided weapons. He is most famous for Wagner's function describing unsteady lift on wings and developing the Henschel Hs 293 glide bomb. Pic. | ||
| Line 28: | Line 32: | ||
||1903: Physicist and academic Bertha Swirles born ... carried out research on quantum theory. Pic. | ||1903: Physicist and academic Bertha Swirles born ... carried out research on quantum theory. Pic. | ||
||1904: Uno Lamm born ... electrical engineer and inventor ... sometimes called "The Father of High Voltage Direct Current" power transmission. Pic search | ||1904: Uno Lamm born ... electrical engineer and inventor ... sometimes called "The Father of High Voltage Direct Current" power transmission. Pic search. | ||
||1905: Bodo von Borries born ... physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope. Pic search | ||1905: Bodo von Borries born ... physicist and academic, co-invented the electron microscope. Pic search. | ||
||1906: The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". | ||1906: The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine". | ||
| Line 42: | Line 46: | ||
||1916: Albrecht Fröhlich born ... mathematician famous for his major results and conjectures on Galois module theory in the Galois structure of rings of integers. Pic: https://opc.mfo.de/detail?photo_id=9239&would_like_to_publish=1 | ||1916: Albrecht Fröhlich born ... mathematician famous for his major results and conjectures on Galois module theory in the Galois structure of rings of integers. Pic: https://opc.mfo.de/detail?photo_id=9239&would_like_to_publish=1 | ||
||1920: Thomas Gold born ... astrophysicist and academic. | ||1920: Thomas Gold born ... astrophysicist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1927: George Andrew Olah born ... chemist and academic ... His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry." Pic. | ||1927: George Andrew Olah born ... chemist and academic ... His research involved the generation and reactivity of carbocations via superacids. For this research, Olah was awarded a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1994 "for his contribution to carbocation chemistry." Pic. | ||
||1929: Mathematician André Haefliger born - he worked primarily on topology. | |||
File:Rabbi Dr. Eliezer (Leon) Ehrenpreis.jpg|link=Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi [[Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis]] born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients. | File:Rabbi Dr. Eliezer (Leon) Ehrenpreis.jpg|link=Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi [[Leon Ehrenpreis (nonfiction)|Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis]] born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients. | ||
| Line 50: | Line 56: | ||
||1933: Chen Jingrun born ... mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory. Pic. | ||1933: Chen Jingrun born ... mathematician who made significant contributions to number theory. Pic. | ||
||1936: George H. Heilmeier born ... engineer ... LCD. | ||1936: George H. Heilmeier born ... engineer ... LCD. Pic. | ||
||1942: Ted Kaczynski born ... academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber). | ||1942: Ted Kaczynski born ... academic and mathematician turned anarchist and serial murderer (Unabomber). Pic. | ||
||1943: Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern. Pic. | ||1943: Joseph Stalin disbands the Comintern. Pic. | ||
| Line 58: | Line 64: | ||
File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space. | File:WAC Corporal rocket at White Sands.jpg|link=WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|1946: The [[WAC Corporal (nonfiction)|WAC Corporal]] becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space. | ||
||1956: Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel dies ... physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect. | ||1947: Andreas Gerasimos Michalitsianos born ... astronomer and astrophysicist. Pic search book cover. | ||
||1956: Walther Ludwig Julius Kossel dies ... physicist known for his theory of the chemical bond (ionic bond/octet rule), Sommerfeld–Kossel displacement law of atomic spectra, the Kossel-Stranski model for crystal growth, and the Kossel effect. Pic. | |||
||1968: The nuclear-powered submarine the USS Scorpion sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores. | ||1968: The nuclear-powered submarine the USS ''Scorpion'' sinks with 99 men aboard, 400 miles southwest of the Azores. | ||
||1969: Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface. | ||1969: Apollo 10's lunar module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the moon's surface. | ||
||1974: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz dies ... mathematician and aerospace engineer. | ||1974: Irmgard Flügge-Lotz dies ... mathematician and aerospace engineer. Pic. | ||
||1983: Albert Claude dies ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1983: Albert Claude dies ... biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1991: Derrick Henry Lehmer dies ... mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer's peripatetic career as a number theorist, with he and his wife taking numerous types of work in the United States and abroad to support themselves during the Great Depression, fortuitously brought him into the center of research into early electronic computing. Pic. | ||1991: Derrick Henry Lehmer dies ... mathematician who refined Édouard Lucas' work in the 1930s and devised the Lucas–Lehmer test for Mersenne primes. Lehmer's peripatetic career as a number theorist, with he and his wife taking numerous types of work in the United States and abroad to support themselves during the Great Depression, fortuitously brought him into the center of research into early electronic computing. Pic. | ||
||1997: Myrtle Bachelder dies . | File:Myrtle_Bachelder_-_1942.jpg|link=Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|1997: Chemist and US military officer [[Myrtle Bachelder (nonfiction)|Myrtle Bachelder]] dies. Bachelder was responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the [[Manhattan Project (nonfiction)|Manhattan Project]] during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder made pioneering contributions to metallochemistry. | ||
||1997: Alfred Hershey born ... biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1997: Alfred Hershey born ... biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||
||1998: José Enrique Moyal dies ... physicist and engineer. | ||1998: José Enrique Moyal dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | ||
File:Martin Gardner.jpg|link=Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematics and science writer [[Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|Martin Gardner]] dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature. | File:Martin Gardner.jpg|link=Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|2010: Mathematics and science writer [[Martin Gardner (nonfiction)|Martin Gardner]] dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature. | ||
File:Self portrait (22 May 2024) 20240522_200220.jpg|link=Self portrait (22 May 2024)|2024: '''[[Self portrait (22 May 2024)|Self portrait]]'''. | |||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
{{Template:Categories: May 22}} | |||
Latest revision as of 19:39, 29 May 2024
1592: Giordano Bruno arrested. Among the numerous charges of blasphemy and heresy brought against him is his belief in the plurality of worlds.
1873: Lawyer, translator, and inventor Per Georg Scheutz born. He will invent the Scheutzian calculation engine, based on Charles Babbage's difference engine.
1930: Mathematician, academic, and rabbi Eliezer 'Leon' Ehrenpreis born. He will prove the Malgrange–Ehrenpreis theorem, the fundamental theorem about differential operators with constant coefficients.
1946: The WAC Corporal becomes the first US rocket to reach edge of space.
1997: Chemist and US military officer Myrtle Bachelder dies. Bachelder was responsible for the analysis of the spectroscopy of uranium for the Manhattan Project during the Second World War. After the war, Bachelder made pioneering contributions to metallochemistry.
2010: Mathematics and science writer Martin Gardner dies. His interests included stage magic, scientific skepticism, philosophy, religion, and literature.
2024: Self portrait.