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File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1716: Mathematician and philosopher [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] dies. He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and designed and built mechanical calculators. | File:Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.jpg|link=Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|1716: Mathematician and philosopher [[Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (nonfiction)|Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz]] dies. He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and designed and built mechanical calculators. | ||
||1797: Charles Lyell born ... geologist who popularized the revolutionary work of James Hutton. He wrote ''Principles of Geology'', which presented uniformitarianism–the idea that the Earth was shaped by the same scientific processes still in operation today–to the broad general public. | ||1797: Charles Lyell born ... geologist who popularized the revolutionary work of James Hutton. He wrote ''Principles of Geology'', which presented uniformitarianism–the idea that the Earth was shaped by the same scientific processes still in operation today–to the broad general public. Pic. | ||
||1807: Auguste Laurent born ... chemist who helped in the founding of organic chemistry with his discoveries of anthracene, phthalic acid, and carbolic acid. He devised a systematic nomenclature for organic chemistry based on structural grouping of atoms within molecules to determine how the molecules combine in organic reactions. Pic. | ||1807: Auguste Laurent born ... chemist who helped in the founding of organic chemistry with his discoveries of anthracene, phthalic acid, and carbolic acid. He devised a systematic nomenclature for organic chemistry based on structural grouping of atoms within molecules to determine how the molecules combine in organic reactions. Pic. | ||
||1817: Policarpa Salavarrieta dies ... seamstress and spy. | ||1817: Policarpa Salavarrieta dies ... seamstress and spy. Pic. | ||
||1829: Louis Nicolas Vauquelin dies ... pharmacist and chemist. | ||1829: Louis Nicolas Vauquelin dies ... pharmacist and chemist. Pic. | ||
||1845: Ulisse Dini born ... mathematician and politician, born in Pisa. He is known for his contribution to real analysis. | ||1845: Ulisse Dini born ... mathematician and politician, born in Pisa. He is known for his contribution to real analysis. Pic. | ||
||1851: Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA. | ||1851: Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA. | ||
||1863: Leo Baekeland born ... chemist and engineer. | ||1863: Leo Baekeland born ... chemist and engineer. Pic. | ||
||1882: Robert Lee Moore born ... mathematician who taught for many years at the University of Texas. He is known for his work in general topology, for the Moore method of teaching university mathematics, and for his poor treatment of African-American mathematics students. Pic. | ||1882: Robert Lee Moore born ... mathematician who taught for many years at the University of Texas. He is known for his work in general topology, for the Moore method of teaching university mathematics, and for his poor treatment of African-American mathematics students. Pic. | ||
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||1916: Roger Apéry born ... mathematician and academic. Pic: https://aperiodical.com/2016/11/aperyodical-roger-aperys-mathematical-story/ | ||1916: Roger Apéry born ... mathematician and academic. Pic: https://aperiodical.com/2016/11/aperyodical-roger-aperys-mathematical-story/ | ||
||1925: Stirling Colgate born ... physicist and academic. | ||1925: Stirling Colgate born ... physicist and academic. He was America's premier diagnostician of thermonuclear weapons during the early years at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Pic search: https://www.google.com/search?q=stirling+colgate | ||
||1932: Jacques Jean-Pierre Neveu born ... mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is one of the founders of the French school (post WW II) of probability and statistics. Pic. | ||1932: Jacques Jean-Pierre Neveu born ... mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is one of the founders of the French school (post WW II) of probability and statistics. Pic. | ||
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||1945: Eldridge Reeves Johnson dies ... businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. | ||1945: Eldridge Reeves Johnson dies ... businessman and engineer who founded the Victor Talking Machine Company and built it into the leading American producer of phonographs and phonograph records and one of the leading phonograph companies in the world at the time. | ||
||1967: American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser. | ||1967: American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser. Pic. | ||
||1969: Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon. | ||1969: Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon. | ||
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||2003: Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object. | ||2003: Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object. | ||
||2006: Gustave Choquet dies ... mathematician. | ||2006: Gustave Choquet dies ... mathematician. His contributions include work in functional analysis, potential theory, topology and measure theory. He is known for creating the Choquet theory, the Choquet integral and the theory of capacities. Pic. | ||
||2014: Eugene Dynkin dies ... mathematician and theorist. | ||2014: Eugene Dynkin dies ... mathematician and theorist. He has made contributions to the fields of probability and algebra, especially semisimple Lie groups, Lie algebras, and Markov processes. The Dynkin diagram, the Dynkin system, and Dynkin's lemma are named after him. Pic. | ||
Two_Creatures_2.jpg|link=Two Creatures 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Two Creatures 2 (nonfiction)|Two Creatures 2]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions. | Two_Creatures_2.jpg|link=Two Creatures 2 (nonfiction)|2016: Steganographic analysis of ''[[Two Creatures 2 (nonfiction)|Two Creatures 2]]'' unexpectedly reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of previously unknown [[Gnomon algorithm]] functions. | ||
Revision as of 13:00, 11 January 2019
1716: Mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz dies. He developed differential and integral calculus independently of Isaac Newton, and designed and built mechanical calculators.
1971: Mathematician and academic Hanna Neumann dies. She contributed to group theory, co-authoring the important paper Wreath products and varieties of groups (with her husband Bernhard and eldest son Peter), and authoring the influential book Varieties of Groups.
1971: Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars. It will map 70% of the surface, and study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface.
2016: Steganographic analysis of Two Creatures 2 unexpectedly reveals "at least fifty kilobytes" of previously unknown Gnomon algorithm functions.
2017: Dennis Paulson celebrates forty-sixth anniversary of Mariner 9 entering orbit around Mars.