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||1493 | ||1493: Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, is published. | ||
||1682 | ||1682: Jean Picard dies ... priest and astronomer. | ||
File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1854: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. | File:George_Eastman.jpg|link=George Eastman (nonfiction)|1854: [[George Eastman (nonfiction)|George Eastman]] born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream. | ||
|| | ||1807: Thomas Hawksley born ... engineer and academic. | ||
|| | ||1813: Claude Bernard born ... physiologist and academic. | ||
||1863: Albert Calmette born ... physician, bacteriologist, and immunologist. | |||
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||1863 – Paul Drude, German physicist and academic (d. 1906) In 1894 he was responsible for introducing the symbol "c" for the speed of light in a perfect vacuum. | ||1863 – Paul Drude, German physicist and academic (d. 1906) In 1894 he was responsible for introducing the symbol "c" for the speed of light in a perfect vacuum. | ||
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||1868: born Henri Abraham ... was a French physicist who made important contributions to the science of radio waves. He performed some of the first measurements of the propagation velocity of radio waves, helped develop France's first triode vacuum tube, and with Eugene Bloch invented the astable multivibrator. | ||1868: born Henri Abraham ... was a French physicist who made important contributions to the science of radio waves. He performed some of the first measurements of the propagation velocity of radio waves, helped develop France's first triode vacuum tube, and with Eugene Bloch invented the astable multivibrator. | ||
||Georg Adolf Erman | ||1877: Georg Adolf Erman dies ... physicist. | ||
||1879 | ||1879: Margherita Piazzola Beloch born ... mathematician. | ||
||Traian Lalescu | ||1882: Traian Lalescu born ... mathematician. His main focus was on integral equations and he contributed to work in the areas of functional equations, trigonometric series, mathematical physics, geometry, mechanics, algebra, and the history of mathematics. Pic. | ||
||Giulio Ascoli | ||1896: Giulio Ascoli dies ... mathematician. | ||
||Nancy Farley "Nan" Wood | ||1903: Nancy Farley "Nan" Wood born ... member of the Manhattan Project and a business owner who designed, developed and manufactured her own line of ionizing radiation detectors. She was a lifelong feminist and a founding member of Chicago NOW. No pic. | ||
||George Elbert Kimball | ||1906: George Elbert Kimball born ... professor of quantum chemistry, and a pioneer of operations research algorithms during World War II. | ||
||1909 | ||1909: Fritz Leonhardt born ... engineer, designed Fernsehturm Stuttgart. | ||
||1913 | ||1912: Harold R. McCluskey (July 12, 1912 – August 17, 1987) was a chemical operations technician at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant located in Washington State who is known for having survived, on August 30, 1976, exposure to the highest dose of radiation from americium ever recorded. He became known as the 'Atomic Man'. Pic: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/four-decades-later-workers-enter-site-of-atomic-man-accident/ | ||
||1913: Willis Lamb born ... physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2008) | |||
File:Bisbee Deportation.jpg|link=Bisbee Deportation (nonfiction)|1917: The [[Bisbee Deportation (nonfiction)|Bisbee Deportation]]: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona. | File:Bisbee Deportation.jpg|link=Bisbee Deportation (nonfiction)|1917: The [[Bisbee Deportation (nonfiction)|Bisbee Deportation]]: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona. | ||
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File:Gambling Den Fight.jpg|link=Gambling Den Fight|1922: Signed first edition of ''[[Gambling Den Fight]]'' sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology." | File:Gambling Den Fight.jpg|link=Gambling Den Fight|1922: Signed first edition of ''[[Gambling Den Fight]]'' sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology." | ||
||1926 | ||1926: Gertrude Bell dies ... archaeologist and spy. | ||
||1934 | ||1934: Ole Evinrude dies ... inventor and businessman, invented the outboard motor. | ||
File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|1935: [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]]. | File:Alfred Dreyfus age 76.jpg|1935: [[Alfred Dreyfus (nonfiction)|Alfred Dreyfus]] dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the [[Dreyfus affair (nonfiction)|Dreyfus affair]]. | ||
||Stanisław Ruziewicz | ||1941: Stanisław Ruziewicz dies ... mathematician and one of the founders of the Lwów School of Mathematics. The Ruziewicz problem, asking whether the Lebesgue measure on the sphere may be characterized by certain of its properties, is named after Ruziewicz. Pic. | ||
|| | ||1945: Boris Galerkin dies ... mathematician and engineer. | ||
||1962: The Rolling Stones perform their first concert, at London's Marquee Club. | |||
||Herbert John Ryser | ||1985: Herbert John Ryser dies ... professor of mathematics, widely regarded as one of the major figures in combinatorics in the 20th century. He is the namesake of the Bruck–Ryser–Chowla theorem and Ryser's formula for the computation of the permanent of a matrix. Pic. | ||
||1988: Boyd Crumrine Patterson dies ... was a mathematician and the 9th president of Washington & Jefferson College. During his presidency, the college's endowment expanded from $2.3 million to nearly $11 million. Pic. | ||1988: Boyd Crumrine Patterson dies ... was a mathematician and the 9th president of Washington & Jefferson College. During his presidency, the college's endowment expanded from $2.3 million to nearly $11 million. Pic. | ||
||1998 | ||1998: Arkady Ostashev dies ... scientist and engineer. | ||
File:San Pietro scrying engine.png|link=San Pietro scrying engine|2017: The [[San Pietro scrying engine]], among the most popular computational shrines of San Pietro in Vincoli, is used to process [[Spirograph (nonfiction)|Spirograph]] data after hours "on a lark". Traditionalists call it "dispectful", but the Pope gives his blessing. | File:San Pietro scrying engine.png|link=San Pietro scrying engine|2017: The [[San Pietro scrying engine]], among the most popular computational shrines of San Pietro in Vincoli, is used to process [[Spirograph (nonfiction)|Spirograph]] data after hours "on a lark". Traditionalists call it "dispectful", but the Pope gives his blessing. | ||
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Revision as of 13:40, 29 August 2018
1854: George Eastman born. He will found the Eastman Kodak Company and popularize the use of roll film, helping to bring photography to the mainstream.
1917: The Bisbee Deportation: vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
1922: Signed first edition of Gambling Den Fight sells for "fifty thousand dollars and an apology."
1935: Alfred Dreyfus dies. He was wrongly convicted of treason during the Dreyfus affair.
2017: The San Pietro scrying engine, among the most popular computational shrines of San Pietro in Vincoli, is used to process Spirograph data after hours "on a lark". Traditionalists call it "dispectful", but the Pope gives his blessing.