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File: | File:Delmedigo.jpg|link=Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist [[Joseph Solomon Delmedigo (nonfiction)|Joseph Solomon Delmedigo]] born. He will write ''Elim'' (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory. | ||
File: | File:Recreations_Mathematiques_et_Physiques.png|link=Jacques Ozanam (nonfiction)|1640: Mathematician [[Jacques Ozanam (nonfiction)|Jacques Ozanam]] born. Ozanam's ''Récréations mathématiques et physiques'' (1694) will later be translated into English and remain popular into the modern era. | ||
||1801: Julius Plücker born ... mathematician and physicist. Pic. | |||
||1801: Julius Plücker born ... mathematician and physicist. | |||
File:Edward Davy.jpg|link=Edward Davy (nonfiction)|1806: Physician, scientist, and inventor [[Edward Davy (nonfiction)|Edward Davy]] born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay. | File:Edward Davy.jpg|link=Edward Davy (nonfiction)|1806: Physician, scientist, and inventor [[Edward Davy (nonfiction)|Edward Davy]] born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay. | ||
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File:Julius Petersen.jpg|link=Julius Petersen (nonfiction)|1839: Mathematician [[Julius Petersen (nonfiction)|Julius Petersen]] born. His famous paper ''Die Theorie der regulären graphs'' will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory. | File:Julius Petersen.jpg|link=Julius Petersen (nonfiction)|1839: Mathematician [[Julius Petersen (nonfiction)|Julius Petersen]] born. His famous paper ''Die Theorie der regulären graphs'' will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory. | ||
||1840: Ernst Otto Schlick born ... engineer and author ... naval gyroscope stabilization | ||1840: Ernst Otto Schlick born ... engineer and author ... naval gyroscope stabilization. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Ernst+Otto+Schlick | ||
||1871: The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology). | ||1871: The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology). | ||
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||1884: The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park. | ||1884: The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park. | ||
||1878: Crawford Long dies ... surgeon and pharmacist ... sulfur ether anaesthetic. | ||1878: Crawford Long dies ... surgeon and pharmacist ... sulfur ether anaesthetic. Pic. | ||
||1884: Ernst Jakob Lennart von Post born ... naturalist and geologist. He was the first to publish quantitative analysis of pollen and is counted as one of the founders of palynology. Pic. | ||1884: Ernst Jakob Lennart von Post born ... naturalist and geologist. He was the first to publish quantitative analysis of pollen and is counted as one of the founders of palynology. Pic. | ||
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||1888: Peter Stoner born ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=peter+stoner+mathematician | ||1888: Peter Stoner born ... mathematician and astronomer. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=peter+stoner+mathematician | ||
||1897: Georg Wittig born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. | ||1897: Georg Wittig born ... chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate. Pic. | ||
||1902: Ernst Schröder dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||1902: Ernst Schröder dies ... mathematician and academic. | ||
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||1904: Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday". | ||1904: Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday". | ||
||1908: Vera Atkins born ... intelligence officer ... worked in the French Section of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) from 1941 to 1945 during the Second World War. Pic. | |||
||1910: Julius Weingarten dies ... mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, such as the Weingarten equations. Pic. | ||1910: Julius Weingarten dies ... mathematician. He made some important contributions to the differential geometry of surfaces, such as the Weingarten equations. Pic. | ||
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John_Tukey.jpg|link=John Tukey (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and academic [[John Tukey (nonfiction)|John Tukey]] born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot. | John_Tukey.jpg|link=John Tukey (nonfiction)|1915: Mathematician and academic [[John Tukey (nonfiction)|John Tukey]] born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot. | ||
||1920: Raymond Lemieux born ... chemist and academic. | ||1920: Raymond Lemieux born ... chemist and academic. Pic. | ||
||1927: Robert Kraft born ... astronomer and academic. Kraft performed pioneering work on Cepheid variables, stellar rotation, novae, and the chemical evolution of the Milky Way. His name is also associated with the Kraft break: the abrupt change in the average rotation rate of main sequence stars around spectral type F8. Pic. | |||
||1927: Lars Svenonius born ... logician and philosopher. He contributed to model theory; Svenonius' Theorem states that if the interpretation of a predicate in any model of a first-order theory is invariant under permutations ("automorphisms") of the model fixing the other predicates, then the interpretation of that predicate is definable in every model by a formula involving only the other predicates; furthermore only finitely many such defining formulas are required. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lars+Svenonius | ||1927: Lars Svenonius born ... logician and philosopher. He contributed to model theory; Svenonius' Theorem states that if the interpretation of a predicate in any model of a first-order theory is invariant under permutations ("automorphisms") of the model fixing the other predicates, then the interpretation of that predicate is definable in every model by a formula involving only the other predicates; furthermore only finitely many such defining formulas are required. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=Lars+Svenonius | ||
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||1933: The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed. It would later be declared unconstitutional. | ||1933: The National Industrial Recovery Act is passed. It would later be declared unconstitutional. | ||
||1937: Gerald Hurst born ... chemist and academic ... arson investigator. Pic search yes: https://www.google.com/search?q=gerald+hurst | |||
||938: Michel Raynaud born ... mathematician working in algebraic geometry. He will be known for Raynaud's isogeny theorem and the Raynaud surface. Pic. | ||938: Michel Raynaud born ... mathematician working in algebraic geometry. He will be known for Raynaud's isogeny theorem and the Raynaud surface. Pic. | ||
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||1970: Sydney Chapman dies ... mathematician and geophysicist. Pic. | ||1970: Sydney Chapman dies ... mathematician and geophysicist. Pic. | ||
||1977: Wernher von Braun dies ... physicist and engineer. Pic. | |||
||1977: Wernher von Braun dies ... physicist and engineer. | |||
||1977: Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates. | ||1977: Oracle Corporation is incorporated in Redwood Shores, California, as Software Development Laboratories (SDL) by Larry Ellison, Bob Miner and Ed Oates. | ||
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||2004: Herman Heine Goldstine dies ... mathematician and computer scientist, who was one of the original developers of ENIAC, the first of the modern electronic digital computers. Pic. | ||2004: Herman Heine Goldstine dies ... mathematician and computer scientist, who was one of the original developers of ENIAC, the first of the modern electronic digital computers. Pic. | ||
||2011: Östen Mäkitalo dies ... engineer and academic dies ... Nordic mobile | ||2011: Östen Mäkitalo dies ... engineer and academic dies ... Nordic mobile. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=%C3%B6sten+m%C3%A4kitalo. | ||
||2012: The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission. | ||2012: The United States Air Force's robotic Boeing X-37B spaceplane returns to Earth after a classified 469-day orbital mission. | ||
||2013: Hans Hass dies ... biologist and underwater diving pioneer. He was known mainly for being among the first scientists to popularise coral reefs, stingrays and sharks. He pioneered the making of documentaries filmed underwater. | ||2013: Hans Hass dies ... biologist and underwater diving pioneer. He was known mainly for being among the first scientists to popularise coral reefs, stingrays and sharks. He pioneered the making of documentaries filmed underwater. Pic. | ||
File: | File:Self portrait (16 June 2022) 20220616_193948.jpg|link=Self portrait (16 June 2022)|2022: '''[[Self portrait (16 June 2022)|Self portrait]]'''. | ||
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1591: Physician, mathematician, and theorist Joseph Solomon Delmedigo born. He will write Elim (Palms), dealing astronomy, physics, mathematics, medicine, metaphysics, and music theory.
1640: Mathematician Jacques Ozanam born. Ozanam's Récréations mathématiques et physiques (1694) will later be translated into English and remain popular into the modern era.
1806: Physician, scientist, and inventor Edward Davy born. He will play a prominent role in the development of telegraphy, and invent an electric relay.
1839: Mathematician Julius Petersen born. His famous paper Die Theorie der regulären graphs will be a fundamental contribution to modern graph theory.
1915: Mathematician and academic John Tukey born. He will make important contributions to statistical analysis, including the box plot.
2022: Self portrait.