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||1630 – Roche Braziliano, Dutch pirate (d. 1671) | |||
|File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1637: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to pre-visualize the transit of Venus. | |File:Jeremiah Horrocks.jpg|link=Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|1637: Astronomer [[Jeremiah Horrocks (nonfiction)|Jeremiah Horrocks]] uses [[scrying engine]] techniques to pre-visualize the transit of Venus. | ||
File:John Arbuthnot.jpg|link=John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath [[John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|John Arbuthnot]] dies. He invented the figure of John Bull. | File:John Arbuthnot.jpg|link=John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath [[John Arbuthnot (nonfiction)|John Arbuthnot]] dies. He invented the figure of John Bull. | ||
||1748 – Anders Sparrman, Swedish physician and activist (d. 1820) | |||
|File:Leopold Kronecker 1865.jpg|link=Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|1854: Mathematician [[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]] discovers invents new type of [[scrying engine]]. | |File:Leopold Kronecker 1865.jpg|link=Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|1854: Mathematician [[Leopold Kronecker (nonfiction)|Leopold Kronecker]] discovers invents new type of [[scrying engine]]. | ||
||1869 – Alice Hamilton, American physician and academic (d. 1970) Industrial toxicology | |||
File:Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer.jpg|link=L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and philosopher [[L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|L. E. J. Brouwer]] born. He will make contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism. | File:Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer.jpg|link=L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|1881: Mathematician and philosopher [[L. E. J. Brouwer (nonfiction)|L. E. J. Brouwer]] born. He will make contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism. | ||
||Carl Ernst Heinrich Schmidt (d. 27 February 1894), also known in Russia as Karl Genrikhovich Schmidt (Russian: Карл Ге́нрихович Шмидт) was a Baltic German chemist from the Governorate of Livonia, a part of the Russian Empire. He determined the typical crystallization patterns of many important biochemicals such as uric acid, oxalic acid and its salts, lactic acid, cholesterin, stearin, etc. | ||Carl Ernst Heinrich Schmidt (d. 27 February 1894), also known in Russia as Karl Genrikhovich Schmidt (Russian: Карл Ге́нрихович Шмидт) was a Baltic German chemist from the Governorate of Livonia, a part of the Russian Empire. He determined the typical crystallization patterns of many important biochemicals such as uric acid, oxalic acid and its salts, lactic acid, cholesterin, stearin, etc. | ||
||1899 – Charles Herbert Best, American-Canadian physiologist and biochemist, co-discovered Insulin (d. 1978) | |||
||1903 – Hans Rohrbach, German mathematician (d. 1993) | |||
||1904 – Yulii Borisovich Khariton, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1996) | |||
||1910 – Kelly Johnson, American engineer, co-founded Skunk Works (d. 1990) | |||
||Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin (d. February 27, 1915) was a Russian mathematician. | ||Nikolay Yakovlevich Sonin (d. February 27, 1915) was a Russian mathematician. | ||
||1922 – A challenge to the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, is rebuffed by the Supreme Court of the United States in Leser v. Garnett. | |||
||1930 – Paul von Ragué Schleyer, American chemist and academic (d. 2014) | |||
||1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility. The Nazis used the fire to solidify their power and eliminate the communists as political rivals. | |||
||1936 – Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and physician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1849) | |||
File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge. | File:Edmund Husserl 1910s.jpg|link=Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|1938: Mathematician and philosopher [[Edmund Husserl (nonfiction)|Edmund Husserl]] publishes new class of [[Gnomon algorithm functions]] based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge. | ||
File:Carbon 14 formation and decay.svg|link=Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover [[Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|carbon-14]]. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples. | File:Carbon 14 formation and decay.svg|link=Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover [[Carbon-14 (nonfiction)|carbon-14]]. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples. | ||
||1943 – In Berlin, the Gestapo arrest 1,800 Jewish men with German wives, leading to the Rosenstrasse protest. | |||
File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|1967: Tokens harvested from [[Diagramaceous soil]] used to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | File:Diagramaceous soil bingo algorithm harvest.jpg|link=Diagramaceous soil|1967: Tokens harvested from [[Diagramaceous soil]] used to detect and prevent [[crimes against mathematical constants]]. | ||
||1987 – Bill Holman, American cartoonist (b. 1903) | |||
||1998 – George H. Hitchings, American pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) | |||
||2004 – Shoko Asahara, the leader of the Japanese doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo, is sentenced to death for masterminding the 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack | |||
||2014 – Aaron Allston, American game designer and author (b. 1960) | |||
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Revision as of 10:46, 14 January 2018
1735: Physician, satirist, and polymath John Arbuthnot dies. He invented the figure of John Bull.
1881: Mathematician and philosopher L. E. J. Brouwer born. He will make contributions to topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis; and he will found the mathematical philosophy of intuitionism.
1938: Mathematician and philosopher Edmund Husserl publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions based on transcendental consciousness as the limit of all possible knowledge.
1940: Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
1967: Tokens harvested from Diagramaceous soil used to detect and prevent crimes against mathematical constants.