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||1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar. | ||1819 – Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles leaves Singapore after just taking it over, leaving it in the hands of William Farquhar. | ||
||Sir William Huggins (b. 7 February 1824) was an English astronomer best known for his pioneering work in astronomical spectroscopy together with his wife Margaret Lindsay Huggins. Pic. | |||
||Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa (February 7, 1833, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Caribbean – September 12, 1900) was an American physician. | ||Jacob Mendes Da Costa, or Jacob Mendez Da Costa (February 7, 1833, Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Caribbean – September 12, 1900) was an American physician. | ||
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File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1889: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|Harry Nyquist]] born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory. | File:Harry Nyquist.jpg|link=Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|1889: Engineer and theorist [[Harry Nyquist (nonfiction)|Harry Nyquist]] born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory. | ||
||1893 – Joseph Algernon Pearce, Canadian astrophysicist and astronomer (d. 1988) | |||
||Maxwell Herman Alexander "Max" Newman, FRS (b. 7 February 1897) was a British mathematician and codebreaker. | ||Maxwell Herman Alexander "Max" Newman, FRS (b. 7 February 1897) was a British mathematician and codebreaker. | ||
File:Galileo Ferraris.jpg|link=Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist and electrical engineer [[Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|Galileo Ferraris]] dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor. | File:Galileo Ferraris.jpg|link=Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|1897: Physicist and electrical engineer [[Galileo Ferraris (nonfiction)|Galileo Ferraris]] dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor. | ||
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||1906 – Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov, Russian engineer, founded the Antonov Aircraft Company (d. 1984) | ||1906 – Oleg Konstantinovich Antonov, Russian engineer, founded the Antonov Aircraft Company (d. 1984) | ||
|| | ||Kōsaku Yosida (b. Yosida Kōsaku, 7 February 1909, Hiroshima – 20 June 1990) was a Japanese mathematician who worked in the field of functional analysis. He is known for the Hille-Yosida theorem concerning C0-semigroups. Pic. | ||
||1926 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 2009) | ||1926 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Russian engineer and astronaut (d. 2009) | ||
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1877: Mathematician and geneticist G. H. Hardy born. He will prefer his work to be considered pure mathematics, perhaps because of his detestation of war and the military uses to which mathematics had been applied.
1878: Physicist John Tyndall uses a series of infra-red light devices to send a message from the White House to New Minneapolis in less than seven minutes.
1889: Engineer and theorist Harry Nyquist born. He will do early theoretical work on determining the bandwidth requirements for transmitting information, laying the foundations for later advances by Claude Shannon, which will lead to the development of information theory.
1897: Physicist and electrical engineer Galileo Ferraris dies. He was a pioneer of AC power systems, and inventor of the induction motor.
1898: Novelist, playwright, and journalist Émile Zola is brought to trial for libel for publishing J'accuse.
1949: Mathematician, physicist, and computer crime investigator John von Neumann publishes new class of Gnomon algorithm functions which detect and prevent crimes against both nuclear and thermonuclear weapons.
1961: Mathematician and military intelligence officer Janet Beta is secretly dosed with Clandestiphrine.
1999: NASA launches the spacecraft Stardust. On January 2, 2004 it will fly by comet Wild 2, collecting dust samples which will return to earth on 15 January 2006.